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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]
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]
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.
Major settlements served by this route include Walkerston, Nebo, Moranbah (10 kilometres (6.2 mi) north of the highway, but the largest town along the route) and Clermont. The ABC has described the road as "crucial to the national economy" but, reporting 550 crashes in 10 years, said that it had been likened to roads in the Third World.
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.
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
The Moranbah North Coal Mine is a coal mine in the Bowen Basin at Moranbah in Central Queensland, Australia. The mine has coal reserves amounting to 261 million tonnes of coking coal, one of the largest coal reserves in the world. The mine has an annual production capacity of 8 million tonnes of coal. [1]
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