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South Burnett Rail Trail
The Kilkivan to Kingaroy Rail Trail (KKRT, in part also known as the South Burnett Rail Trail or SBRT) is an recreation trail from Kilkivan to Kingaroy. The trail follows the old Kingaroy Branch railway and is open to walkers, cyclists and horse riders. Geography Kilkivan is situated on the Wide Bay Highway, north of the state capital, Brisbane and west of Gympie. Kingaroy is situated on the junction of the D'Aguilar and the Bunya Highways, north-west of Brisbane and south- west of Gympie. Geology The Trail crosses two belts of old rocks separated by the northern end of the Esk Basin. The Kilkivan Railway Station was built on a goldfield. Route The northern end of the trail is located in Kilkivan, north-west of Brisbane and directly west of Gympie. The Kilkivan to Murgon section of the trail passes through Goomeri and is located in the upper reaches of the Mary River valley and crosses through open farmland. The trail head at Kilkivan is located opposite the forme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kilkivan, Queensland
Kilkivan is a rural town and Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the Gympie Region of Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Kilkivan had a population of 689 people. Geography The town is situated on the Wide Bay Highway, north of the state capital, Brisbane and west of Gympie. One Mile Creek () meanders through the town, east of the Wide Bay Highway. The town lies in the Mary River (Queensland), Mary River drainage basin. Rossmore is a neighbourhood within the locality to the south-west of the town of Kilkivan (). History Kilkivan was first inhabited by the Wakka Wakka tribe of the Australian Aboriginal peoples. The town was first settled by Europeans in the 1840s. Queensland’s first gold discovery was at Kilkivan in 1852 and subsequent findings escalated into a gold rush in the 1860s. The town was named for a pastoral run owned by pastoralist John Daniel MacTaggart (1823–1871) after his father's farm name near Drumlemble, Kintyre, Scotland. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burnett Highway
The Burnett Highway is an inland rural highway located in Queensland, Australia. The highway runs from its junction with the Bruce Highway at Gracemere, Queensland, Gracemere, just south of Rockhampton, Queensland, Rockhampton, to the D'Aguilar Highway in Nanango, Queensland, Nanango. Its length is approximately 542 kilometres. The highway takes its name from the Burnett River, which it crosses in Gayndah. The Burnett Highway provides the most direct link between the northern end of the New England Highway (at Yarraman, Queensland, Yarraman, south of Nanango) and Rockhampton. It is designated as a State Strategic Road (part of Australia’s Country Way) by the Queensland Government. State-controlled road Burnett Highway is a state-controlled regional road, most of which is rated as "state-strategic". It is defined in six sections, as follows: * Number 41A, Nanango to Goomeri, state-strategic. * Number 41B, Goomeri to Gayndah, state-strategic. * Number 41C, Gayndah to Monto, sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Back Roads (TV Series)
''Back Roads'' is an Australian factual television show that looks at Australian regional towns. This observational documentary series began on the ABC on 30 November 2015. It follows political journalist Heather Ewart as she visits remote towns and regions to visit local communities. the executive producer was Brigid Donovan and the supervising producer Kerri Ritchie. The field producers were Karen Michelmore and Louise Turley. A second series began screening in 2016. The theme song is sung by Australian singer-songwriter, Rebecca Barnard. Episodes Series 1 * Series 1 Ep 1 " Ceduna" (First broadcast 30 Nov 2015) Ceduna is a Nullarbor frontier town on the Great Australian Bight, where breaking conventions is the rule. * Series 1 Ep 2 " Winton" (First broadcast 07 Dec 2015) Winton is a western Queensland town in "Waltzing Matilda" country, where you can spend a day at the races, go digging for dinosaur bones and meet a former Governor-General of Australia, Dame Quentin Bryce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ABC TV (Australian TV Channel)
ABC TV, formerly known as ABC1, is an Australian national public television network. It is owned and operated by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and is the flagship (broadcasting), flagship ABC Television (Australian TV network), ABC Television network. The headquarters of the ABC TV channel and the ABC are in Ultimo, New South Wales, Ultimo, an inner-city suburb of Sydney. The very first public broadcasting, national public television station in Australia officially and formally formal full grand opening night ceremony took place by Prime Minister of Australia Robert Menzies in ABN (TV station), Sydney at stroke of night 7:00:00pm Time in Australia, Sydney Time on 5 November 1956 as ABC National Television Service under the call sign ABN (TV station), ABN-2 with the very first main flagship television presented by Michael Charlton (journalist), Michael Charlton and James Dibble reading the very first television news, main flagship television news bulletin, followed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dickabram Bridge
Dickabram Bridge is a heritage-listed road-and-rail bridge over the Mary River between Miva and Theebine, both in the Gympie Region, Queensland, Australia. It was the major bridge on the Kingaroy railway line. It was designed by Henry Charles Stanley and built from 1885 to 1886 by Messrs Michael McDermott, Owens & Co. It is also known as Mary River Bridge (Miva). The bridge was registered on the former Register of the National Estate in 1988. The bridge is one of three remaining road-and-rail bridges in Australia and the only one in South East Queensland following the completion of the Burdekin Bridge in 1957. It is the oldest remaining large steel truss bridge constructed in Queensland. History The Dickabram Bridge over the Mary River was the major bridge on the Kingaroy branch railway line. The contract for construction of the line to Kilkivan was awarded to McDermott, Owens & Company on 8 August 1884, the contract to be completed by the 1st June 1886. This ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queensland Heritage Register
The Queensland Heritage Register is a heritage register, a statutory list of places in Queensland, Australia that are protected by Queensland legislation, the Queensland Heritage Act 1992. It is maintained by the Queensland Heritage Council. As at 5 April 2020 there are 1790 places on the Queensland Heritage Register, including the Story Bridge in Brisbane and the Ross River Meatworks Chimney in Townsville. Criteria For a place to be entered in the register, it must be nominated and then go through a process of assessment. There are three categories for inclusion: * State Heritage Place (the most common type of entry), e.g. the Charters Towers Courthouse * Archaeological Place, e.g. the First Brisbane Burial Ground in the vicinity of Skew Street, Brisbane * Protected Area, e.g. the shipwreck of on K'gari Criteria for inclusion as a State Heritage Place For inclusion as a State Heritage Place on the Queensland Heritage Register, the place must satisfy one of the following ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kinbombi
Kinbombi is a rural town and locality in the Gympie Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Kinbombi had a population of 34 people. Geography The Wide Bay Highway passes through from east to west. The town is positioned centrally within the locality. Coleman is a neighbourhood in the north of the locality (). The Nanango railway line enters the locality from the north (Cinnabar), passes through Colman railway station () in the north of the locality and then to the town served by Kinbombi railway station () and then exits the locality to the west (Goomeri). The railway line has now been dismantled and the railway stations abandoned. History The Kilkvan to Goomeri section of the Nanango railway line opened in 1902. The township takes its name from that assigned to the Kinbombi railway station, which is derived from an Aboriginal word in the Kabi language, indicating a fight concerning a woman (''gin'' meaning ''woman'' and ''bombe'' meaning ''hit''). Colem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinnabar, Queensland
Cinnabar is a rural locality in the Gympie Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Cinnabar had a population of 83 people. Geography The Wide Bay Highway enters the location from the north-west ( Kilkivan) and exits to the south-west ( Kinbombi). The Breezer is a mountain in the south-west of the locality () which rises to above sea level. Cinnabar State Forest is a forest reserve in the north-west of the locality (). Apart from the state forest, the land use is predominantly grazing on native vegetation with some crop-growing around the creeks. History In 1872, the mineral cinnabar (a sulphide of mercury) was found on the sheep station of J.D. Mactaggart west of Kilkivan. The heavy dark-red stones found contained 24% mercury in addition to copper selenide. Mercury was extensively used in gold production in Australia at that time, but no significant quantities of mercury had been found in Australia and mercury had to be imported. A number of mining companies were es ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tingoora
Tingoora is a rural town and a locality in the South Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Tingoora had a population of 272 people. Geography The town is on the Bunya Highway, north west of the state capital, Brisbane. The Chinchilla–Wondai Road ( State Route 82) enters from the west and terminates in a T-intersection with the Bunya Highway. History Charlestown Provisional School opened circa 1894 and closed circa 1894. The Kilkvan to Goomeri section of the Nanango railway line opened in December 1904, with Tingoora served by the now-abandoned Tingoora railway station (). The town takes its name from the railway station which was named for the local Indigenous Australian word in the Waka language for the wattle tree. The Tingoora railway bridge is the longest surviving wooden railway bridge in the South Burnett. The Theebine to Kingaroy line was officially closed in early 2010. The restored curved railway bridge is now part of the Kingaroy- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horse Riding
Equestrianism (from Latin , , , 'horseman', 'horse'), commonly known as horse riding ( Commonwealth English) or horseback riding (American English), includes the disciplines of riding, driving, and vaulting. This broad description includes the use of horses for practical working purposes, transportation, recreational activities, artistic or cultural exercises, and competitive sport. Overview of equestrian activities Horses are trained and ridden for practical working purposes, such as in police work or for controlling herd animals on a ranch. They are also used in competitive sports including dressage, endurance riding, eventing, reining, show jumping, tent pegging, vaulting, polo, horse racing, driving, and rodeo (see additional equestrian sports listed later in this article for more examples). Some popular forms of competition are grouped together at horse shows where horses perform in a wide variety of disciplines. Horses (and other equids such as mules) are used f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cycling
Cycling, also known as bicycling or biking, is the activity of riding a bicycle or other types of pedal-driven human-powered vehicles such as balance bikes, unicycles, tricycles, and quadricycles. Cycling is practised around the world for purposes including transport, recreation, exercise, and competitive sport. History Cycling became popularized in Europe and North America in the latter part and especially the last decade of the 19th century. Today, over 50 percent of the human population knows how to ride a bike. War The bicycle has been used as a method of reconnaissance as well as transporting soldiers and supplies to combat zones. In this it has taken over many of the functions of horses in warfare. In the Second Boer War, both sides used bicycles for scouting. In World War I, France, Germany, Australia and New Zealand used bicycles to move troops. In its 1937 invasion of China, Japan employed some 50,000 bicycle troops, and similar forces were instrumental in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walking
Walking (also known as ambulation) is one of the main gaits of terrestrial locomotion among legged animals. Walking is typically slower than running and other gaits. Walking is defined as an " inverted pendulum" gait in which the body vaults over the stiff limb or limbs with each step. This applies regardless of the usable number of limbs—even arthropods, with six, eight, or more limbs, walk. In humans, walking has health benefits including improved mental health and reduced risk of cardiovascular disease and death. Difference from running The word ''walk'' is descended from the Old English ''wealcan'' 'to roll'. In humans and other bipeds, walking is generally distinguished from running in that only one foot at a time leaves contact with the ground and there is a period of double-support. In contrast, running begins when both feet are off the ground with each step. This distinction has the status of a formal requirement in competitive walking events. For quadrupedal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
