Nive is a rural

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in the

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, Australia. It is on the boundary between the Shire of Murweh and the

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. In the , Nive had a population of 44 people.

Geography

The

Landsborough Highway Landsborough Highway is a highway in western Queensland, Australia, running in the northwest–southeast direction from Morven to Cloncurry. The Landsborough Highway runs through vast tracts of land that was once occupied by William Landsboro ...

runs through from south (

Augathella Augathella is a rural town and locality in the Shire of Murweh, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Augathella had a population of 328 people. Geography Augathella lies on the Matilda Highway, is north of the town of Charlevil ...

) to north ( Yandarlo).

History

The locality takes its name from the Nive River. The river in turn was named by Sir Thomas Mitchell, the New South Wales Surveyor-General, on 13 September 1846, after the Nive River in south-western France, where Lord Wellington engaged in the

Battle of the Nive The Battles of the Nive (9–13 December 1813) were fought towards the end of the Peninsular War. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Marquess of Wellington's Anglo-Portuguese Army, Anglo-Portuguese and Spanish Army ...

in the

Peninsula War The Peninsular War (1808–1814) was fought in the Iberian Peninsula by Kingdom of Portugal, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom against the invading and occupying forces of the First French ...

in 1813. Nive Downs was a huge sheep station that was broken up into home blocks and allocated to returned servicemen in a ballot after the 2nd world war. The Duttons sold Nive Downs in 1866 and awarded a breastplate to Paddy, King of Nive Downs for the service of his tribe. Paddy was likely a Wadjalang man. The breastplate is now in the

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Demographics

In the , Nive had a population of 34 people. In the , Nive had a population of 44 people.

Education

There are no schools in Nive. The nearest primary school is Augathella State School in neighbouring

, although some parts of the north and west of Nive might be too distant for a daily commute. There are no secondary schools nearby. Other schooling options are

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and boarding school.

References

{{Shire of Murweh Shire of Murweh Localities in Queensland