Mackenzie is a rural
locality
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in the
Central Highlands Region
Central Highlands Region is a local government area in Queensland, Australia. In the , the Central Highlands Region had a population of 27,836 people.
History
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,
Queensland
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, Australia.
In the , Mackenzie had a population of 30 people.
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Geography
The Mackenzie River
The Mackenzie River (French: ; Slavey language, Slavey: ' èh tʃʰò literally ''big river''; Inuvialuktun: ' uËkpÉ‘k literally ''great river'') is a river in the Canadian Canadian boreal forest, boreal forest and tundra. It forms, ...
forms the eastern, northern and north-western boundary of the locality. The land in the north of the locality is lower-lying with elevations of rising to higher levels of elevations of in the south. Moultrie State Forest is in the south of the locality.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 ...
.
History
The locality's name presumably derives from the Mackenzie River, which in turn was named by explorer Ludwig Leichhardt
Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt (; 23 October 1813 – ), known as Ludwig Leichhardt, was a German explorer and naturalist, most famous for his exploration of northern and central Australia.Ken Eastwood,'Cold case: Leichhardt's disappearanc ...
on 10 January 1845, after his friend pastoralist Evan Mackenzie of Kilcoy Station.
Demographics
In the , Mackenzie had a population of 37 people.
Education
There are no schools in Mackenzie. The nearest government primary school is Dingo State School in neighbouring Dingo
The dingo (either included in the species ''Canis familiaris'', or considered one of the following independent taxa: ''Canis familiaris dingo'', ''Canis dingo'', or ''Canis lupus dingo'') is an ancient (basal (phylogenetics), basal) lineage ...
to the south, but, due to distances, it would only be accessible to students in southern Mackenzie. There is no secondary school in or near Mackenzie. Alternatives are 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 school.
References
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Central Highlands Region
Localities in Queensland