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Allan Cunningham Monument
Allan Cunningham Monument is a heritage-listed monument on the Cunningham Highway, Cunninghams Gap, Cunningham's Gap, near the boundary of Tregony, Queensland, Tregony in the Southern Downs Region and Tarome, Queensland, Tarome in Scenic Rim Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Dornbusch & Connolly and built in 1927. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 29 April 2022. History The Allan Cunningham Monument, located north-east of Warwick, Queensland, Warwick, was constructed in 1927 to commemorate the centenary of the explorer Allan Cunningham (botanist), Allan Cunningham's achievements in traversing the Great Dividing Range and documenting a pass through the mountains in 1828. Cunningham's Gap, as it became known, had long been important to the traditional owners, the Yuggera Ugarapul people, of the Fassifern Valley, and would become the main connecting link between the Darling Downs in the west to south-east Queensland and its coast in the east. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cunningham Highway
The Cunningham Highway is a National Highway (Australia), national highway located in South East Queensland, south-eastern Queensland, Australia. The highway links the Darling Downs region with the urbanised outskirts of Ipswich, Queensland, Ipswich via Cunninghams Gap. The Cunningham carries the National Highway 15 Highway shield, shield between Ipswich and north of Warwick, Queensland, Warwick at its junction with the New England Highway at Glengallan, Queensland, Glengallan where both the Cunningham and the New England head south concurrency (road), concurrently to Warwick. Thereafter, the Cunningham carries the National Highway 42 shield to its south-western terminus with the Leichhardt Highway at Goondiwindi. The majority of the Cunningham Highway is a single carriageway with freeway standard and 6-lane arterial road standard towards its north-eastern terminus, near Ipswich. State-controlled road The Cunningham Highway is a state-controlled road, subdivided into four sec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
