Windeyer is a rural

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in the

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, Australia. In the , Windeyer had a population of 29 people.

Geography

The Dawson Developmental Road enters the locality from the east ( Mantuan Downs) and exits to the south (

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), where it joins 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 ...

within the town of Tambo. 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 ...

forms the north-eastern boundary of the locality with the locality being within the Lake Eyre drainage basin, and more specifically within the catchments of the

Barcoo River The Barcoo River in western Queensland, Australia rises on the northern slopes of the Warrego Range, flows in a south-westerly direction and unites with the Thomson River to form Cooper Creek. The first European to see the river was Thomas ...

and

Cooper Creek The Cooper Creek (formerly Cooper's Creek) is a river in the Australian states of Queensland and South Australia. It was the site of the death of the explorers Burke and Wills in 1861. It is sometimes known as the Barcoo River from one of its ...

. Windeyer has the following mountains (from north to south): * Mount Solitary near the northern boundary of the locality (), rising to above sea level * Mount Birkhead in the north of the locality () * Mount Windeyer in the centre of the locality () * Mount Blunt in the south of the locality () The predominant 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

Sir Thomas Mitchell mapped the area in 1846 naming Mount Windeyer (possibly after Richard Windeyer, a barrister and politician in New South Wales), Mount Birkhead, and Mount Blunt.

Demographics

In the , Windeyer had a population of 25 people. In the , Windeyer had a population of 29 people.

Education

There are no schools in Windeyer. Tambo State School offers Kindergarten to Year 10 in neighbouring

to the south, but not all students in Windeyer would be able to access this school due to distance. There are no schools offering education to Year 12 nearby. The alternatives are

distance education Distance education, also known as distance learning, is the education of students who may not always be physically present at school, or where the learner and the teacher are separated in both time and distance; today, it usually involves online ...

and boarding school.

References

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