Mount Tamborine is a town within the

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Tamborine Mountain Tamborine Mountain, also known simply as Mount Tamborine, is a plateau, geographic subregion and locality in the Scenic Rim Region of Queensland, Australia. In the , Tamborine Mountain had a population of 8,105 people. Geography The plate ...

in South East

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, Australia.

History

Mount Tamborine Post Office had opened by March 1924 (a

receiving office A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letters and parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post offices may offer additional serv ...

had been open from 1881, originally known as Tambourine Mountain), was renamed Mount Tamborine in 1926 and closed in 1977. The name "Tamborine" is taken from the

Yugambeh language Yugambeh (or ''Mibanah'', from , 'language of men' or 'sound of eagles'), also known as Tweed-Albert Bandjalang, is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by the Yugambeh living in South-East Queensland between and within the Logan Rive ...

for "wild lime", after the

finger lime ''Citrus australasica'', the finger lime or caviar lime, is a thorny understorey shrub or small tree of lowland subtropical rainforest in the coastal border region of Queensland and New South Wales, Australia. It has edible fruits which are gro ...

trees in the area. Tamborine was sometimes spelt as "tchambreem", "jambreen" and "goombireen". Formerly a suburb in its own right, in 1997, Mount Tamborine was merged with other former suburbs North Tamborine and Eagle Heights to create the larger

of Tamborine Mountain. All three suburbs now have the postcode 4272 and postal address of Tamborine Mountain. The postcode 4271 is reserved for the post office at Eagle Heights (which closed down permanently in 2024).

Demographics

In the , Mount Tamborine had a population of 1,184 people. There has not been any census data reported for the town of Mount Tamborine after 2006.

Sport and recreation

A number of well-known sporting teams represent the local area, including the Tamborine Mountain Bushrats, a

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club, which plays home games at Tamborine Mountain Sports Complex.

Heritage listings

Mount Tamborine has a number of

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sites, including: * Tamborine Mountain Road, Geissmann Drive

References

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History

Demographics

Sport and recreation

Heritage listings

See also

References