Lanskey is a suburb in the

City of Mount Isa The City of Mount Isa is a local government area in north west Queensland. The City covers the urban locality of Mount Isa, the administrative centre, and surrounding area, sharing a boundary with the Northern Territory to the west. Mount ...

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 , establishe ...

, Australia. In the , Lanskey had a population of 101 people.

Geography

The

Leichhardt River The Leichhardt River is a river in north west Queensland, Australia. Course The source of the river is in the Selwyn Range under Rifle Creek Hill and fed by Rifle Creek approximately south of the mining town Mount Isa. It runs in a generally n ...

flows north–south through the town of Mount Isa, dividing the suburbs of the town into "mineside" (west of the Leichhardt River) and "townside" (east of the Leichhardt River). Lanskey is a "townside" suburb and it is bounded to the west by the river. The suburb is on the outer edge of urban development of the town of Mount Isa. There are small pockets of housing and much of land is still used ffor agriculture, specifically for

grazing In agriculture, grazing is a method of animal husbandry whereby domestic livestock are allowed outdoors to roam around and consume wild vegetations in order to convert the otherwise indigestible (by human gut) cellulose within grass and other ...

on native vegetation. There is a caravan park in the far north of the locality.

History

Lanskey was named on 1 September 1973 by the

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after grazier Mr Lanskey. On 16 March 2001, the status of Lanskey was changed from a locality to a suburb.

Demographics

In the , Lanskey had a population of 63 people. In the , Lanskey had a population of 101 people.

Education

There are no schools in Lanskey. The nearest government primary school is Barkly Highway State School in neighbouring Soldiers Hill to the south-west. The nearest government secondary school is Spinifex State College which has its junior campus in Parkside to the south-west and its senior campus in

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to the south-east.

References

{{City of Mount Isa City of Mount Isa Suburbs of Mount Isa