Wellesley 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 , Wellesley had a population of 94 people.

Geography

The

Carnarvon Highway Carnarvon Highway is a state highway in Queensland and New South Wales, Australia, linking the township of Rolleston in Queensland's Central Highlands Region, via the town of St George, eventually to Moree in northern New South Wales. It is ...

runs through from south to north. The land use is predominantly growing

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in the north of the locality and

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 in the south of the locality.

Demographics

In the , Wellesley had a population of 73 people. In the , Wellesley had a population of 94 people.

Education

There are no schools in Wellesley. The nearest government school is Surat State School in neighbouring

Surat Surat (Gujarati Language, Gujarati: ) is a city in the western Indian States and territories of India, state of Gujarat. The word Surat directly translates to ''face'' in Urdu, Gujarati language, Gujarati and Hindi. Located on the banks of t ...

to the north-east which provides education from Prep to Year 10. There are no nearby schools providing education to Year 12;

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and boarding school are the options.

References

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