Coolabine is a rural

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in the

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, Australia. In the , Coolabine had a population of 76 people.

Geography

Coolabine is a locality in a valley (approx 100 metres above sea level) surrounded by mountains to the north, east and south, a range that includes Mount Thilba Thalba (450 metres in neighbouring

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) and Connors Knob (420 metres in neighbouring Obi Obi). It is locality is bounded on its west by Obi Obi Creek. Cooloobun Creek rises in the mountains to the south and then flows through the locality from east to west, joining Obi Obi Creek. The land is freehold and rural residential in character.

History

The name ''Coolabine'' is an Aboriginal word meaning "place of koalas". F.W. Goeths opened a sawmill in 1911. It was known as the Coolabine Sawmills. Coolabine Provisional School opened in 1928. It became Coolabine State School with the opening of a new building in February 1930. It closed about 1956. It was at 268 Coolabine Road ().

Demographics

In the , Coolabine with neighbouring Obi Obi and Kidaman Creek had a population of 427 people. In the , Coolabine had a population of 71 people. In the , Coolabine had a population of 76 people.

Education

There are no schools in Kenilworth. The nearest government primary schools are Kenilworth State Community College in neighbouring

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to the west and Mapleton State School in Mapleton to the east. The nearest government primary schools are Mary Valley State College (to Year 10), Burnside State High School (to Year 12) in Burnside,

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, to the east and Maleny State High School (to Year 12) in

Maleny Maleny (pronounced ''muh-LAY-knee'') is a rural town and Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. Maleny was a timber town until the early 1920s and then was a centre of dairy production ...

to the south.

References

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