South West Queensland

- 26.4146.25Koordinaten: 26 ° 24 ' S, 146 ° 15 ' E

South West Queensland is a remote region in Queensland, Australia, which covers an area of ​​319.808 km ². The region is located south of Central West Queensland, west of the Darling Downs and includes the Maranoa district and parts of the Channel Country. The area is known for its herds of cattle, cotton farms, opals and oil and gas deposits.

The Maranoa Division is the local district for the election of the Government of Australia. LGAs are the Maranoa region, the Balonne Shire Paroo Shire, Murweh Shire, Shire Bulloo and Quilpie Shire. South West Queensland has a population of 26 489 people.

In the region, the transmission of information by the ABC Western Queensland takes place, a radio station.

• 2.1 Significant settlements
• 2.2 rivers
• 2.3 National Parks

History

Aboriginal

The local indigenous company dealing in commodities and promoted social cohesion. In the territory of South West Queensland the plant Duboisia hopwoodii grew with which they acted and with the traditional chewing tobacco was produced.

European

The eastern areas of the region around the lower Warrego River were first explored by Thomas Livingstone Mitchell in 1845. The colonization by dairy farmers did not begin until after the expedition of William Landsborough in 1862.

1860 Robert O'Hara Burke and William came John Wills on the Burke and Wills expedition from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria în this area to explore large areas of inland Australia, which were unknown to the European settlers. An important meeting that took advantage of the discoverer was a custodian at the waterhole Bullah Bullah at Cooper Creek. After they did not reach the northern shoreline because of the mangrove swamps in the estuary of the Flinders River and their supplies were scarce, the four members of the expedition decided to return. A member of the expedition died on em way back, the other three they were tragically lost their lives because they only missed a rescue expedition at the meeting point at Copper Creek for hours.

In the western parts of the region Western falls 150 mm of rain per year average. Further east to St. George, which averages 500 mm per year. The low water resources hindered the early dairy industry. After the Great Artesian Basin had been discovered and was tapped by drilling, it was possible to run sheep and cattle.

A Carriage Factory built Cobb & Co in 1893 in Charleville, when developed the coach services in the region during the 1880s. Cobb & Co was Australia 's most famous historic carriage company that passengers and mail transported by land. The carriages that it produced could carry eight passengers and were known for their toughness, stability and compliant suspension.

1922 Qantas flew for the first time Charleville with regularly.

Geography

The northern extension of the Sturt Stony Desert in South West Queensland is an area that is known as Cameron Corner. Parts of the Cooper Basin lies in this region. This sediment basin includes significant oil and gas deposits on the Australian continent. Near Roma at Hospital Hill, Australia 's first natural gas strike which made ​​. Oil was found in the region in 1961. Too, Eromanga Basin with its oil reserves is located in South West Queensland. Economically recoverable quantities of natural gas were discovered in 1976 and oil in 1978. The Tookoonooka Crater, a large impact crater is located there, which is not apparent, however, at the surface.

Significant settlements

The most important towns in South West Queensland Charleville, Roma, Augathella, Windorah, Thargomindah, St George and Cunnamulla. Cunnamulla has the largest Eisenbahnverladestation of cotton in the railway network of Queensland. Australia's largest cotton farm, Cubbie Station at the St George, covering 93,000 ha

Smaller Städt are Amby, Injune, Jackson, Mitchell, Muckadilla, Mungallala, Surat, Wallumbilla, Yuleba, Alton, Bollon, Boolba, Dirranbandi, levers, Mungindi, Nindigully, Thallon, Coongoola, Eulo, Humeburn, Tuen, Wyandra, Yowah, Bakers Bend, Morven, Nive, Sommariva, Thargomindah, Hungerford, Noccundra, Nockatunga, Norley, Oontoo, Quilpie, Adavale, Cheepie, Eromanga and Toompine. Cooladdi is a ghost town with six residents.

Traverse the waterways for the South West Queensland are the Warrego, Maranoa, Merivale, Balonne River and its tributaries as Bokhara River, Culgoa, Wilson and Cooper Creek. The Balonne River is used for an extensive irrigation network. The Bulloo River system is the only closed river system in Australia.

National Parks

Many areas have been derklärt to national parks, the Alton NationalpPark, Chesterton Range National Park, Culgoa Flood Plain National Park, Currawinya National Park, Diamantina National Park, Idalia National Park, Lake Bindegolly National Park, Mariala National Park, Thrushton National Park and Tregole National Park. Bowra Sanctuary is a nature reserve in a nature reserve near Cunnamulla, which is managed by the Australian Wildlife Conservancy.

Transport

Main roads in the region include the Mitchell Highway, which leads from the outback of New South Wales and Balonne Highway, which stretches from the east of St George to Cunnamulla. The Warrego Highway runs east / west direction through the north of the region. The northern tip of the Castlereagh Highway crosses the southeast of the region and terminates at St George. By St George leads the Carnarvon Highway and the Diamantina Development Road, which is gradually bvefestigt.

Seven airports have Dirranbandi Airport, Roma Airport, St George Airport, Charleville Airport, Thargomindah Airport, Cunnamulla and Quilpie Airport airport. 1888 reached the railway line of the Western Railway reached Charleville.

A regional train from Cunnamulla was opened in 1898. Today, the Passenger The West Lander from Brisbane to Charleville leads that line the South Western Railway via Thallon in the southeast corner of the region.

Environment

Bioregions of the area consist of Mulgaland. Mulga grows as either a shrub or small tree which propagates in dry areas in the arid outback of Australia. There is an isolated population of Rufous -crowned Emu - wren, who live in areas of Spinifex vegetated land. The Dingo Fence led through the region, the world's longest fence.

The region is covered by red, brown, and gray clay. Red sand and earth dominate, which is typical of arid Australia.

Opal

In Adavale the first Australian opal was found. The ghost town Yowah was built on an opal field than the Opalabbau began in the 1870s. Opals were also found in Quilpie, Eulo and northern New South Wales.