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| | | | | | The Gulflander is an Australian passenger train, running 151 kilometres (94 mi) from Normanton to Croydon in the Gulf Country of northern Queensland. Often described as a train from nowhere to nowhere, the line was completed in 1891 and was never connected to the rest of the Queensland Rail network although it has always been owned and operated by Queensland Rail. The nearest part of the Queensland Rail network is 190 kilometres away at Forsayth. The service runs once per week to Croydon on Wedn... |
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| | | | | | The McArthur River mine is one of the worlds largest zinc, lead and silver mines, situated about 70 kilometres southwest of Borroloola, near the Gulf of Carpentaria in the northeastern Northern Territory, Australia. It is operated by McArthur River Mining (MRM), a subsidiary of the Swiss mining company Xstrata. Although discovered in the 1950s, when it was originally called the HYC (Heres Your Chance) deposit, it only opened as a mine in 1995. Initially an underground mining operation, the mine ... |
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| | | | | | Mbabaram (Barbaram) is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language of north Queensland. It was the traditional language of the Mbabaram tribe. Known speakers were Albert Bennett, Alick Chalk, Jimmy Taylor and Mick Burns. Recordings of Bennett and Chalk are held in the Audiovisual Archive of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. R. M. W. Dixon described his hunt for a native speaker of Mbabaram in his book Searching for Aboriginal Languages: Memoirs of a Field W... |
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| | | | | | Rainbow Valley Conservation Reserve is a protected area located south of Alice Springs, Northern Territory in Australia. The reserve was established to protect the unique sandstone formations and the Aboriginal art, artifacts and sacred natural objects within an area of 24.83 km2 (9.59 sq mi) around a large sandstone bluff. The sandstone layers in the main formation resemble the colored stripes of a rainbow, with the red-orange hues of sandstone that is rich with iron creating a strong contrast ... |
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| | | | | | Willows Shopping Centre is a sub-regional shopping centre, located in Kirwan, a suburb of Townsville, Queensland. It is one of Townsvilles largest shopping centers with a total of 130 retail stores. An Australian Breastfeeding Association five-star-rated parents room is provided, complete with childrens play area, as well as male, female and disabled room facilities. Willows Shopping Centre also hosts Northern Australias largest Big W Department Store at 8,500 sqm as well a revamped Target depar... |
| | | | | | Mount Bellenden Ker is the second highest mountain in Queensland, Australia, with a height of 1,593 metres (5,226 ft). It is named after the botanist John Bellenden Ker Gawler. Located 60 km south of Cairns near Babinda, it is adjacent to Mount Bartle Frere, the states highest peak, part of the Bellenden Ker Range which is also known as the Wooroonooran Range. The two mountains dominate the Josephine Falls section of the Wooroonooran National Park. Both peaks are made of resistant granite and ar... |
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| | | | Anglican schools in Australia, Educational institutions established in 1983, Schools in Cairns, Private schools in Queensland, High schools in Queensland, Round Square schools, Junior School Heads Association of Australia Member Schools, 1983 establishments in Australia, Queensland school stubs, Hidden categories:, Pages with citations lacking titles, Pages with citations having bare URLs, Articles lacking reliable references from January 2011, All articles lacking reliable references, Coordinat... | | |
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| | | | Coastal cities in Australia, North Queensland, Port cities in Australia, Townsville, 1865 establishments in Australia, Populated places established in 1865, Hidden categories:, All articles with dead external links, Articles with dead external links from July 2012, Articles with dead external links from September 2010, Articles with dead external links from October 2010, Pages using citations with accessdate and no URL, Articles with dead external links from August 2011, Articles with dead exter... | | Townsville- �ta�nzvɪl- is a city on the north-eastern coast of Queensland, Australia. Adjacent to the central section of the Great Barrier Reef, it is in the dry tropics region of Queensland. Townsville is Australias largest urban centre north of the Sunshine Coast, with a 2015 population estimate of 200,000, Considered the unofficial capital of North Queensland, Townsville hosts a significant number of governmental, community and major business administrative offices for the northern half ... |
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| | | | IUCN Category II, National parks of Queensland, North Queensland, Ramsar sites in Australia, Protected areas established in 1977, Bays of Queensland, 1977 establishments in Australia, Hidden categories:, Pages using citations with accessdate and no URL, Use dmy dates from September 2014, Use Australian English from September 2014, All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English, Coordinates on Wikidata, Commons category template with no category set, Commons category with page title same as... | | |
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| | | | 1854 ships, Victorian-era merchant ships of the United Kingdom, Victorian-era merchant ships of Australia, Shipwrecks of Queensland, Maritime incidents in 1875, History of Australia (1851–1900), Maritime history of Australia, Iron and steel steamships of Australia, Barquentines of Australia, Millwall-built ships, Great Barrier Reef, North Queensland, Wreck diving sites, Maritime incidents in Australia, History of Darwin, Northern Territory, Hidden categories:, All articles with dead external l... | | The SS Gothenburg was a steamship that operated along the British and then later the Australian and New Zealand coastlines. In February 1875, she left Darwin, Australia en route to Adelaide when she encountered a cyclone-strength storm off the north Queensland coast. The ship was wrecked on the Great Barrier Reef north-west of Holbourne Island on 24 February 1875. Survivors in one of the lifeboats were rescued two days later by the Leichhardt, while the occupants of two other lifeboats that mana... |
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| | | | Geoglyphs, 1998 in Australia, Australian folklore, Far North (South Australia), 1998 archaeological discoveries, Hidden categories:, Pages with citations lacking titles, Pages with citations having bare URLs, Use Australian English from July 2011, All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English, Use dmy dates from July 2011, Articles containing potentially dated statements from 2010, All articles containing potentially dated statements, Articles containing potentially dated statements from ... | | The Marree Man, or Stuarts Giant, is a modern geoglyph discovered by air on 26 June 1998. It appears to depict an indigenous Australian man hunting birds or wallabies with a boomerang. It lies on a plateau at Finnis Springs 60 km (36 mi) west of the township of Marree in central South Australia. It is just outside the 127,000 square kilometres (49,000 sq mi) Woomera Prohibited Area. The figure is 4.2 km (2.6 mi) tall with a perimeter of 28 kilometres (17 mi). Although it is the second largest ge... |
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| | | | | | Pine Islet Light, also known as Percy Isles Light, is an active lighthouse located at Pine Islet, a small islet belonging to the Percy Isles group of the Northumberland Islands, about 130 kilometres (81 mi) southeast of Mackay, Queensland, Australia. The original lighthouse, established 1885, was active for a hundred years, until it was deactivated in 1985, by then the last kerosene powered lighthouse in Australia. It was relocated to the Mackay Marina in 1985 and restored to full working condit... |
| | | | Towns in South Australia, Pastoral leases in South Australia, Flinders Ranges, Wildlife sanctuaries of Australia, Hidden categories:, Pages with citations lacking titles, Pages with citations having bare URLs, Articles needing additional references from May 2015, All articles needing additional references, Use dmy dates from March 2013, Use Australian English from March 2013, All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English, Coordinates on Wikidata, All articles with unsourced statements, Ar... | | Arkaroola is the common name for the Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary, a wildlife sanctuary situated on 610 square kilometres (240 sq mi) of freehold and pastoral lease land in South Australia. It is located 700 kilometres (430 mi) north of the Adelaide city centre in the Northern Flinders Ranges, adjacent to the Vulkathunha-Gammon Ranges National Park and the Mawson Plateau. The most common way to get there is by car, but air travel can be chartered from Parafield Airport, Adelaide Airport or Ald... |
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| | | | Towns in South Australia, Copper mines in Australia, Uranium mines in Australia, Gold mines in South Australia, Silver mines in Australia, Mining towns in South Australia, Underground mines in Australia, Far North (South Australia), Mining in South Australia, 1988 establishments in Australia, Hidden categories:, Pages using citations with accessdate and no URL, Use dmy dates from March 2013, Use Australian English from March 2013, All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English, Coordinates... | | The Olympic Dam mine is a large poly-metallic underground mine located in South Australia, 550 km NNW of Adelaide. It is the fourth largest copper deposit and the largest known single deposit of uranium in the world, although copper is the largest contributor to total revenue. Approximately 70% of the mines revenue comes from copper, 25% from uranium, and the remainder from silver and gold. BHP Billiton has owned and operated the mine since 2005. The mine was previously owned by Western Mining C... |
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| | | | Universities in Queensland, Educational institutions established in 1967, Rockhampton, Buildings and structures in Rockhampton, 1967 establishments in Australia, Hidden categories:, Pages with citations lacking titles, Pages with citations having bare URLs, Use British English from January 2013, Use dmy dates from January 2013, Articles lacking reliable references from September 2012, Articles containing potentially dated statements from 2012, All articles containing potentially dated statements... | | Central Queensland University (alternatively known as CQUniversity) is an Australian dual sector university based in Queensland. Its main campus is in North Rockhampton, Queensland. However, it also has campuses in Rockhampton City, Bundaberg, Emerald, Gladstone City, Gladstone Marina, Mackay Ooralea, Mackay City and Noosa, as well as delivery sites in Cairns, Cannonvale, Townsville, Charters Towers, Yeppoon, Biloela, Geraldton, Karratha and Perth. On 31 October 2014, CQUniversity announced that... |
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| | | | | | Burra is a pastoral centre and historic tourist town in the mid-north of South Australia. It lies east of the Clare Valley in the Bald Hills range, part of the northern Mount Lofty Ranges, and on Burra Creek. The town began as a single company mining township that, by 1851, was a set of townships (company, private and government-owned) collectively known as The Burra. The Burra mines supplied 89% of South Australias and 5% of the worlds copper for 15 years, and the settlement has been credited (... |
| | | | IUCN Category Ia, Nature reserves in New South Wales, Biosphere reserves of Australia, Protected areas established in 1971, 1971 establishments in Australia, Central West (New South Wales), Hidden categories:, Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls, Pages using web citations with no URL, Pages using citations with accessdate and no URL, Use dmy dates from January 2012, Use Australian English from January 2012, All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English, Coordinates on Wikida... | | The Yathong Nature Reserve is a protected nature reserve that is also a nationally and internationally recognized biosphere situated in the central-western region of New South Wales, in eastern Australia. The 107,240-hectare (265,000-acre) reserve was listed by UNESCO in 1977 as a Biosphere Reserve under the Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB). The reserve is significant for its biodiversity in both native plant and animal species. Cultural heritage and historical grazing activities add to the... |
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| | | | | | The Shire of Jondaryan was a local government area located in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia, immediately west of the regional city of Toowoomba. The shire, administered from the town of Oakey, covered an area of 1,910.0 square kilometres (737.5 sq mi), and existed as a local government entity from 1890 until 2008, when it amalgamated with several other councils in the Toowoomba area to form the Toowoomba Region. Its growth in later years has been fuelled by the expansion of T... |
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| | | | | | The Darling Downs is a farming region on the western slopes of the Great Dividing Range in southern Queensland, Australia. The Downs are to the west of South East Queensland and are one of eleven major regions of Queensland. The region was named after the then Governor of New South Wales, Ralph Darling by Allan Cunningham, an early Australian explorer. The region has developed a strong agricultural industry with mining and manufacturing also dominate. Farming is so productive due to a large depo... |
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| | | | | | Sandy Cape Light is a heritage-listed active lighthouse located on Sandy Cape, the most northern point on Fraser Island, Queensland, Australia. It stands about 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) southwest of the northeastern tip of the island. It is the tallest lighthouse in Queensland. Built in 1870, it is the second major lighthouse to be built in Queensland after its formation in 1859. It is one of the first lighthouses in Australia to be constructed using bolted prefabricated segments of cast iron, and o... |
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