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Moranbah is a coal mining town and locality in the Isaac Region, Queensland, Australia. [2] [3] In the 2021 census, the locality of Moranbah had a population of 9,425 people. [1] In addition to the permanent population, Moranbah also has a large fly-in fly-out population working in Moranbah's mines: in excess of 1,500. [4]
Electoral map of Burdekin 2008. Burdekin is an electoral district in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland in the state of Queensland, Australia.Centred on the Ayr–Home Hill region, the electorate also includes some of Townsville's southern semi-rural localities as well as the coal-mining towns of Collinsville, Moranbah and Clermont.
A basic survey of the island was conducted by Robert Dixon in 1839. He named the island after Lord John Russell the Secretary of State for the Colonies in the 1840s. [10]The island was first settled by Europeans in 1866, when John Campbell was granted a lease on the northern end of the island closely followed by John Willes and his family. [11]
Central Queensland is an imprecisely-defined geographical division of Queensland (a state in Australia) that centres on the eastern coast, around the Tropic of Capricorn.Its major regional centre is Rockhampton.
Godwin Beach, a beach which extends from neighbouring locality of Godwin Beach to the south-west Off-shore are a number of marine waterbodies: Pumicestone Channel , to the west, separating Bribie Island from the mainland ( 27°03′58″S 153°08′21″E / 27.0661°S 153.1393°E / -27.0661; 153.1393 ( Pumicestone Channel
Moranbah Airport (IATA: MOV, ICAO: YMRB) is an airport serving Moranbah, Queensland, Australia. [1] It is located 3.25 nautical miles (6.02 km; 3.74 mi) south of Moranbah and operated by BHP Mitsubishi Alliance, [1] a coal mining company. The airport averages 40 QantasLink flights each week, most of these being Dash-8 Q400 aircraft. In July ...
Map of Moreton Bay made in 1842 by Robert Dixon (high resolution image) Land for sale in Manly in 1887 Moreton Bay Pile Light, c. 1912 Sailing on Moreton Bay in 1915 Woody Point jetty at Woody Point Beach scene, Sandgate December 1937 The first of the Tangalooma Wrecks were placed in 1963, one year after the whaling station ceased operations.
Beaches on the Gold Coast and the Sunshine Coast are long and sandy, attracting tourists including surfers. [7] Further north the waves are dampened by the barrier reefs. Queensland's largest dam is the Burdekin Dam, followed by Lake Awoonga. There are no large natural lakes in the state.