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Capricorn Coast – a section of the Central Queensland coastline near the Tropic of Capricorn. Maranoa – a district that is sometimes referred to as the Western Darling Downs, in South West Queensland. The Marlin Coast – a coastal area centred on Cairns. North West Queensland – the area around Mt Isa.
The 319 counties of Queensland in 1901. Lands administrative divisions of Queensland refers to the divisions of Queensland used for the registration of land titles. There are 322 counties, and 5,319 parishes within the state. [1] [2] They are part of the Lands administrative divisions of Australia. Queensland had been divided into 109 counties ...
1897 cadastral map of the County of Wynyard, New South Wales, showing parishes and property boundaries. Counties were used since the earliest British settlement in Australia, with the County of Cumberland proclaimed by Captain Phillip on 4 June 1788.
Upper Tenthill is a rural locality in the Lockyer Valley Region, Queensland, Australia. [2] In the 2021 census , Upper Tenthill had a population of 273 people. [ 1 ]
Curra is in the Wide Bay–Burnett region of Queensland. It also belongs to the non-functional administrative unit known as the County of March. The Mary River forms the western boundary, and Curra Creek is part of the northern boundary. To the east of the locality is a large portion of Curra State Forest.
Sugarloaf Mountain is on the eastern boundary as part of the Great Dividing Range; it rises to 1,085 metres (3,560 ft) above sea [ 4 ] [ 5 ] A number of creeks rise on the slopes of the Great Dividing Range and flow in a general south-west direction becoming directly or indirectly tributaries to Quart Pot Creek.
It is thought the present name was the name of a pastoral property owned by Ernest Christian Frederick Beutel. [2] Due to the number of local areas which had "Tarampa" as part of their place name, local residents met in February 1906 to propose that their area had a new name and submitted a list of proposed new names to the Education department ...
The locality was named by James Murtha circa 1869. Originally from County Cork, Ireland, he named his property, Kingsholme. Other notable pioneering families included the Thomson family (Alexander Thomson) who emigrated from Scotland in 1889. [5] Historically, farming families grew bananas, sugar cane and arrowroot.