Australian Towns

Find more info here on Australian Towns Aurukun Is an Indigenous community, situated approximately 100 kilometres (62 mi) south of Weipa in far North Queensland, Australia. The town faces west to the Gulf of Carpentaria, and during the wet season, roads are impassable. In March 2008, the Sydney Morning Herald reported that standards of justice, education [...]

Find more info here on Australian Towns Atherton Is a town on the Atherton Tablelands of Far North Queensland, Australia. At the 2006 census, Atherton had a population of 7,068. Transport Roads Atherton is joined by the Gillies Highway to Yungaburra, the Kennedy Highway north to Mareeba and south to Ravenshoe and Mount Garnet, the [...]

Find more info here on Australian Towns Aramac Is a small town in Western Queensland, Australia, lying 68 kilometres (42 mi) north of Barcaldine, and 1,280 kilometres (800 mi) by road from the state capital, Brisbane. It is situated on Aramac Creek, which flows into the Thomson River 60 kilometres (37 mi) west of town. At the 2006 [...]

Find more info here on Buying Australian Real Estate Ilfracombe Is a small town in Queensland, Australia that calls itself The Hub of the West. The main industry is sheep rearing, mainly for wool. Ilfracombe is the home of a collection of antique agricultural machinery. At the 2006 census, Ilfracombe and the surrounding region had [...]

Find more info here on Best Australian Beaches Hervey Bay Is a city in Queensland, Australia. The city is situated approximately 290 kilometres (180 mi) north of the state capital, Brisbane, and lies on the coast of a natural bay between the Queensland mainland and nearby Fraser Island. The local economy relies on tourism, for which [...]

Find more info here on Buying Australian Real Estate Forsayth Is a town in Etheridge Shire, Far North Queensland, Australia, approximately 415km by road from Cairns. At the 2006 census, Forsayth had a population of 101. The town is the terminus of the Etheridge Railway, built by the Chillagoe Railway and Mining Company. It reached [...]

Find more info here on Buying Australian Real Estate Eidsvold Is a small town in the North Burnett region of Queensland, Australia. It is situated on the Burnett Highway approximately 430 kilometres (270 mi) north of the state capital, Brisbane. The town is the self-proclaimed Beef Capital of the Burnett and is a hub for the [...]

Find more info here on Australian Holidays Gatton Is a town and the administrative centre of the Lockyer Valley Local Government Area situated in the Lockyer Valley of South East Queensland, Australia. At the 2006 census, Gatton had a population of 5,295. The Gatton area was explored by Major Edmund Lockyer in 1825. A settlement [...]

Find more info here on Australian Travel Beaudesert Is a town located on the Mount Lindesay Highway, some 64 km south of Brisbane. It is possibly named after Beau Desert Park, the property of Charles Henry Alexander Paget, 6th Marquess of Anglesey in Staffordshire, England. Yet it is certain that Queensland’s Beaudesert was named in about [...]

Find more info here on Best Australian Beaches Daintree Is a settlement in North Queensland located 111 kilometres north of Cairns and 56 kilometres from Port Douglas, Queensland. The McDowell Ranges are near the town while the Daintree River flows nearby. It takes its name from Richard Daintree, a pioneering geologist of British origin in [...]