Mount Moffatt is a rural

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in the

Maranoa Region Maranoa Region is a Local government in Australia, local government area in South West Queensland, Australia. The town of Roma, Queensland, Roma is the administrative headquarters of the region. In the , the Maranoa Region had a population of 1 ...

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, Australia. In the , Mount Moffatt had a population of 14 people. Mount Moffatt's postcode is 4465.

Geography

The locality is bounded to the north-west by the Chesterton Range, to the north and north-east by 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 ...

, and to the east by the Merivale River. The terrain is quite mountainous with the following named features (from north to south); * Mount Rugged () * Gee Gee Gap () * Mount Campbell () * Mount Moffatt () * The Observatory () * Rough Mountain () * Mount Macleay () * Mount Judy () * Mount Misery () * Mount Clift () * Mount Ogilby () * Ogilby Knob () * Mount Eddystone () The

Maranoa River The Maranoa River, part of the Murray-Darling basin, is a river situated in South West Queensland, Australia. Course and features Formed by the confluence of the west and east branches of the river, the Maranoa River rises on the Consuelo Table ...

rises in the locality with the west branch rising in the north of the locality () and the east branch rising in the north-east of the locality (). The two branches of the river flow south with their confluence in the south of the locality (). There are a number of protected areas within the locality: * part of the

Carnarvon National Park Carnarvon National Park is located in the Southern Brigalow Belt bioregion in the Maranoa Region in Central Queensland, Australia. The park is 593 km northwest of Brisbane. It began life as a reserve gazetted in 1932 to protect Carnarvon ...

is in the north of the locality * the McLeay State Forest is in the east of the locality * the Forfar State Forest is in the south-east of the locality * part of the Attica State Forest is in the south-west of the locality Apart from the protected areas, the 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

The locality was initially called Mount Moffat, but changed to Mount Moffatt on 18 October 2002. It is presumably named after the mountain Mount Moffatt within the locality.

Demographics

In the , Mount Moffatt had "no people or a very low population". In the , Mount Moffatt had a population of 14 people.

Education

There are no schools in Mount Moffatt nor nearby. The options are distance education and boarding school.

References

{{Maranoa Region Maranoa Region Localities in Queensland