Английская Википедия:Gowrie Mountain, Queensland
Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use Australian English Шаблон:Infobox Australian place Gowrie Mountain is a locality in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia.[1] In the Шаблон:CensusAU, Gowrie Mountain had a population of 222 people.[2]
Geography
The Warrego Highway forms the northern boundary of the locality while Dry Creek forms the southern boundary. The lower of the two peaks of Gowrie Mountain (630 metres above sea level) is in the far east of the locality while the higher peak (674 metres above sea level) is in the neighbouring locality of Charlton.[3]
History
The locality takes its name from the mountain which, in turn, took its name from a corrupted Aboriginal word cowarie, which probably referred to Gowrie Creek, but which also referred to the freshwater mussel.[1]
Gowrie Mountain Provisional School opened on 30 May 1901,[4][5] becoming Gowrie Mountain State School on 1 January 1909. It closed in 1967.[6] It was on a Шаблон:Convert site at 95 Gowrie Mountain School Road (Шаблон:Coord), now within the present-day locality of Kingsthorpe.[7][3]
Demographics
In the Шаблон:CensusAU, Gowrie Mountain had a population of 224 people.[8]
In the Шаблон:CensusAU, Gowrie Mountain had a population of 222 people.[2]
Education
There are no schools in Gowrie Mountain. The nearest government primary school is Kingsthorpe State School in neighbouring Kingsthorpe to the north. The nearest government secondary school is Wilsonton State High School in Wilsonton Heights to the east.[9]
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Шаблон:Commons category-inline Шаблон:Toowoomba Region