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10 unusual facts about North Queensland


2009 Dunlop Townsville 400

The first time a major motorsport has been held in North Queensland, the race has been assembled around a specially created street circuit, as no permanent racing facilities exist in north Queensland, apart from clay surface speedway circuits.

Amblytelus

Amblytelus is a genus of ground beetle including 47 species distributed through southern Australia, including the Southwest and along the east coast up to North Queensland.

Brisbane City Temple Band

Although not as well travelled as many Sydney-based corps, the Temple Band has been on several tours to Victoria, New South Wales, West Australia, New Zealand, North Queensland and Tasmania.

Charters Towers Excelsior Library

Charters Towers Excelsior Library is the local library in Charters Towers in North Queensland, Australia.

Lisa Camilleri

Lisa Carol Camilleri, (born 24 February 1983 in Tully, North Queensland) is a professional squash player who represented Australia.

North Queensland Labor Party

It has been classified as a 'aggrieved minority' party, meaning that its primary purpose (similar to the National Party of Australia) is representation of a particular geographical grouping of people within Australia, in this case North Queensland.

Richard Daintree

In particular, Daintree was the first Government geologist for North Queensland discovering gold fields and coal seams for future exploitation.

Santalum lanceolatum

The native range of the plant extends from north-western Victoria, northwards through New South Wales to North Queensland, westwards across The Northern Territory and into North Western Western Australia.

Scaly-breasted Lorikeet

This lorikeet is common in most timbered areas of Eastern Australia from Bamaga, the tip of North Queensland, south to Illawarra district on the New South Wales south coast; also on some offshore islands.

Sylvia Kelso

She has a Creative Writing MA built around one science-fiction novel using alternate North Queenslands and she earned her Ph.D. in 1997.


2007 New Zealand rugby league season

They finished 4th out of 16 teams before losing to North Queensland in the Semi Finals.

Bill Ray

William James "Bill" Ray is the current and tenth Anglican Bishop of North Queensland in Australia.

Bluff Downs fossil site

The Bluff Downs fossil site is a paleontological site of Pliocene age in northern Queensland, Australia, and is the most significant fossil site of the Pliocene age in Australia.

Jimmy Downey

On 12 January 2010, it was announced he would be joining North Queensland for the rest of the 2009-10 season in a swap for striker Daniel McBreen.

Vic Renalson

He was working as a fitter and Turner and was driving to North Queensland to work on a sugarcane plantation when the steering on his car failed near Sarina.