Laglan is a rural

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in the

Isaac Region The Isaac Region is a local government area located in Central Queensland, Queensland, Australia created in March 2008 as a result of the report of the Local Government Reform Commission released in July 2007. In the , the Isaac Region had a po ...

Queensland Queensland ( , commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a States and territories of Australia, state in northeastern Australia, and is the second-largest and third-most populous state in Australia. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Austr ...

, Australia. In the , Laglan had a population of 21 people.

Geography

The

Great Dividing Range The Great Dividing Range, also known as the East Australian Cordillera or the Eastern Highlands, is a cordillera system in eastern Australia consisting of an expansive collection of mountain ranges, plateaus and rolling hills. It runs roughl ...

runs roughly along the western boundary of Laglan. Laglan has the following mountains in the east of the locality: * Mount Donnybrook () at above sea level * The Nunnery () at above sea level The predominant land use is

grazing In agriculture, grazing is a method of animal husbandry whereby domestic livestock are allowed outdoors to free range (roam around) and consume wild vegetations in order to feed conversion ratio, convert the otherwise indigestible (by human diges ...

on native vegetation.

History

Yagalingu The Yagalingu are an Aboriginal Australian people of the state of Queensland. Their language may have been a dialect of Bidjara. Country According to Norman Tindale, the Yagalingu had a territorial range of some , south from the headwaters of th ...

'' (also known as ''Jagalingu'', ''Auanbura'', ''Kokleburra'', ''Owanburra'', ''Kowanburra'', ''Wagalbara'', and ''Djagalingu'') is an

Australian Aboriginal language The Indigenous languages of Australia number in the hundreds, the precise number being quite uncertain, although there is a range of estimates from a minimum of around 250 (using the technical definition of 'language' as non-mutually intellig ...

Central Queensland Central Queensland is an imprecisely-defined geographical division of Queensland ( a state in Australia) that centres on the eastern coast, around the Tropic of Capricorn. Its major regional centre is Rockhampton. The region extends from the Cap ...

. Its traditional language region was within the local government area of

, from the headwaters of the

Belyando River The Belyando River, including the Belyando River (Western Branch), is a river system in Central Queensland, Australia. At in length and with a catchment area of , the Belyando River system is one of the longest rivers in Queensland. It is pro ...

south to Avoca, north to Laglan, west to the

, and east and south to Drummond Range. On 17 May 2019, it was decided to discontinue the locality of Mistake Creek and absorb its land into the neighbouring localities of Clermont, Laglan, Frankfield and Peak Vale.

Demographics

In the , Laglan had "no people or a very low population". In the , Laglan had a population of 21 people.

Economy

There are a number of homesteads in the locality, including: * Bimbah East () * Doongmabulla () * Laglan () * Lestree Downs () * Lou Lou Park ()

Transport

Doongmabulla Airstrip is at the Doongmabulla homestead (). Laglan Airstrip is at Laglan homestead ().

Education

There are no schools in Laglan and none nearby.

Distance education Distance education, also known as distance learning, is the education of students who may not always be physically present at school, or where the learner and the teacher are separated in both time and distance; today, it usually involves online ...

and boarding schools are options.

References

{{Isaac Region Isaac Region Localities in Queensland