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Yowah is an outback town and locality in the Shire of Paroo, Queensland, Australia. [2] [3] In the 2021 census, the locality of Yowah had a population of 126 people.[1]The town is known for its opal mining and numerous opal fields that lie around the town as well as the "Yowah nut", a local type of opal distinctive to the region.
Yowah nut opals were formed during the Cretaceous period, approximately 65 to 135 million years ago, coinciding with the time of the dinosaurs. In March 2024, Geoscience Australia applied for funding from the Australian Government National Cultural Heritage Account Funding program, [ 7 ] to purchase the opal for $100,000.
According to third-party web analytics providers Alexa and SimilarWeb, the Brisbane Times is the 191st and 250th most visited website in Australia respectively, as of August 2015. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] SimilarWeb rates the site as the 24th most visited news website in Australia, attracting more than 2 million visitors per month.
South West Queensland is a remote region in the Australian state of Queensland which covers 319,808 km 2 (123,479 sq mi). [1] The region lies to the south of Central West Queensland and west of the Darling Downs and includes the Maranoa district and parts of the Channel Country.
Map of Paroo Division and adjacent local government areas, March 1902. Gunya (Kunya, Kunja, Kurnja) is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by the Gunya people. The Gunya language region includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of the Paroo Shire Council, taking in Cunnamulla and extending north towards Augathella, east towards Bollon and west towards Thargomindah.
This is a list of active, dormant and extinct volcanoes in Australia and its island territories. Note that the term volcano is used loosely as it can include groups of related volcanoes and vents that erupted at similar times with lava of related origin.
Time zone: AEST : Location: 106 km (66 mi) SE of Cunnamulla; 302 km (188 mi) S of Charleville, Queensland; 474 km (295 mi) SW of Roma; 659 km (409 mi) WSW of Toowoomba; 788 km (490 mi) WSW of Brisbane; LGA(s) Shire of Paroo: State electorate(s) Warrego: Federal division(s) Maranoa
1888 Brisbane connected to Sydney by rail with break of gauge at Wallangarra. 1890 The Worker newspaper founded. 1892 The Catholic Age (later Catholic Leader) newspaper founded. 1893 Brisbane flood. 1894 Women's Equal Franchise Association founded. 1894 T.P. Lucas's novel Ruins of Brisbane in the Year 2000. 1895 The Gabba set aside as cricket ...