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Mount Russell (Queensland)
Evanslea is a rural Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Evanslea had a population of 31 people. Geography The Toowoomba–Cecil Plains Road runs through from east to west. Evanslea railway station is an abandoned railway station on the closed Cecil Plains railway line (). Norillee is a neighbourhood (). The land use is predominantly crop growing with some Pastoralism, grazing on native vegetation, mostly in the south-east of the locality. Evanslea has the following mountains: * Mount Russell () * Mount Taylor () History The locality takes its name from the Evanslea railway station, which was named after Charles Barnard Evans, Commissioner for Railways (Queensland), Commissioner for Railways in Queensland from 1911 to 1918. The railway station on the Cecil Plains railway line opened in September 1915 with Evanslea as its terminus. It was subsequently extended to Cecil Plains, Queensland, Cecil Plains. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AEST
Australia uses three main time zones: Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST; UTC+10:00), Australian Central Standard Time (ACST; UTC+09:30) and Australian Western Standard Time (AWST; UTC+08:00). Time is regulated by the individual states and territories of Australia, state governments, some of which observe daylight saving time (DST). Daylight saving time (+1 hour) is used between the first Sunday in October and the first Sunday in April in jurisdictions in the south and south-east: * New South Wales, Victoria, Australia, Victoria, Tasmania, Jervis Bay Territory and the Australian Capital Territory switches to the Australian Eastern Daylight Saving Time (AEDT; UTC+11:00), and * South Australia switches to the Australian Central Daylight Saving Time (ACDT; UTC+10:30). Standard time was introduced in the 1890s when all of the Australian colonies adopted it. Before the switch to standard time zones, each local city or town was free to determine its local time, called local mea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
