Mornington is a
suburb
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of the town of
Mount Isa
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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 Isa ...
,
Queensland
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, Australia.
In the , Mornington had a population of 1,846 people.
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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). Mornington is a "townside" suburb.
History
Mornington was named on 1 September 1973 by the Queensland Place Names Board
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. Originally a locality, it became a suburb on 16 March 2001.
Demographics
In the , Mornington had a population of 1,919 people.
Heritage listings
Mornington has a number of heritage-listed
This list is of heritage registers, inventories of cultural properties, natural and human-made, tangible and intangible, movable and immovable, that are deemed to be of sufficient heritage value to be separately identified and recorded. In ma ...
sites, including:
* Underground Hospital, Camooweal Street ()
* Tent House, Camooweal Street ()
Education
There are no schools in Mornington. The nearest government primary schools are Mount Isa Central State School in neighbouring Mount Isa City to the north-west, Townview State School in neighbouring Townview to the east, and Healy State School in neighbouring Healy to the south. The nearest government secondary school is Spinfex State College which has its junior campus in neighbouring Parkside to the west and its senior campus in Pioneer
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A pioneer as a settler is among the first settling at a place that is new to the settler community. A historic example are American pioneers, perso ...
to the north-west.
Facilities
Mount Isa Base Hospital is a public hospital at 30 Camooweal Street (). It includes the Centre for Rural and Remote Health operated by James Cook University
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.
References
External links
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{{City of Mount Isa
Suburbs of Mount Isa