Deepwater is a coastal

locality Locality may refer to: * Locality (association), an association of community regeneration organizations in England * Locality (linguistics) * Locality (settlement) * Suburbs and localities (Australia), in which a locality is a geographic subdivi ...

in the

Gladstone Region Gladstone Region is a local government area in Queensland, Australia. The council covers an area of , had an estimated resident population at 30 June 2018 of 62,979, and has an estimated operating budget of A$84 million. History Gladstone Re ...

Queensland ) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , established_ ...

, Australia. In the , Deepwater had a population of 206 people.

Geography

Broadwater Creek and Blackwater Creek flow through the locality merging just before entering the

Coral Sea The Coral Sea () is a marginal sea of the South Pacific off the northeast coast of Australia, and classified as an interim Australian bioregion. The Coral Sea extends down the Australian northeast coast. Most of it is protected by the Fren ...

. The

Broadwater Conservation Park Broadwater, Broad Water or Broadwaters may refer to: Places Australia * Electoral district of Broadwater, Queensland * Gold Coast Broadwater * Broadwater National Park *Broadwater, New South Wales *Broadwater, Queensland, a locality in the Southern ...

lies between the creek and the ocean. The north of the locality is within the

Deepwater National Park Deepwater is a coastal national park in Queensland, Australia, 375 km north of Brisbane. It protects an area of sand dunes and coastal heaths in the Deepwater Creek catchment. The area is one of the few remaining pristine freshwater catchm ...

History

The locality was named and bounded on 9 April 1999. On 26 November 2018, the

Queensland Government The Queensland Government is the democratic administrative authority of the Australian state of Queensland. The Government of Queensland, a parliamentary constitutional monarchy was formed in 1859 as prescribed in its Constitution, as amended f ...

ordered the evacuation of

Baffle Creek The Baffle Creek is a creek in Central Queensland, Australia. Course and features The Baffle Creek rises near Arthurs Seat in the Eurimbula State Forest and just south of the Eurimbula National Park in the Great Dividing Range. The creek flo ...

, Deepwater and Rules Beach due to a "dangerous and unpredictable"

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wide and covering with flames of high during an extreme

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References

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