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3 unusual facts about Peak Downs


Brigalow Belt

The Northern Brigalow Belt includes the coal producing Bowen Basin with the nearby Drummond Basin and the fertile Peak Downs areas while the southern belt runs into the huge Great Artesian Basin with the sandstone gorges of the Carnarvon Range of the Great Dividing Range separating the two areas.

Lophothoracia omphalella

It was described by Hampson in 1901, and is known from Australia (it was described from Peak Downs and Coomoo, Queensland).

Peak Downs

Shire of Peak Downs, a former local government area of Queensland, Australia


Lioprosopa neuricella

It was described by Hampson in 1918, and is known from Peak Downs, Queensland, Australia.


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