US Army Radio Receiving Station, Capalaba
US Army Radio Receiving Station, Capalaba is a heritage-listed former radio receiving station at 362–388 Old Cleveland Road East, in Capalaba, Queensland, Capalaba (now within Birkdale, Queensland, Birkdale), City of Redland, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1942 to 1943. It is also known as the Capalaba receiving station. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 26 June 2020. History The former US Army Radio Receiving Station consists of two small buildings and the location of a rhombic radio aerial array in a large, lightly-forested property is located in the suburb of Birkdale, approximately south-east of the Brisbane CBD. Originally farmland, the site was requisitioned by the United States Army, United States of America (US) Army during World War II (WWII) for the establishment of a vital radio receiving station. Constructed in early 1943 by the US Signal Corps, it became an integral part of the South West Pacific Area (SWPA) Campaign General Headquar ...
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Birkdale, Queensland
Birkdale is a coastal locality in the City of Redland, Queensland, Australia. In the , Birkdale had a population of 14,816 people. Geography Birkdale stretches from Tingalpa Creek in the west, the border with Brisbane City, to Wellington Point in the east. Thorneside and Waterloo Bay are to its north, and Capalaba and Alexandra Hills are to its south. The Cleveland railway line enters the locality from the north-west (Thorneside) and exits to the east (Wellington Point) with the locality being served by the Birkdale railway station (). Major features are a canal style housing development known as Aquatic Paradise, a significant shopping precinct located near Aquatic Paradise and a retirement village known as Wellington Manor. There are two neighbourhoods in the locality: * Poudalandyalbetser (). * Tanganghur () It is also home to one of the Redlands Waste Transfer Stations (), which (as of July 2012) is provided to the residents of the city free of charge. It en ...
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