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8 unusual facts about Queanbeyan


Black Mountain Tower

Black Mountain Tower is one of the most visually imposing structures on the Canberra skyline, visible from many parts of Canberra and Queanbeyan.

Canberra Hospital

There were no obstetric facilities and obstetrics patients had to travel to the Queanbeyan hospital.

Karabar High School

"Over the years the band has performed in Queanbeyan and Canberra. The first performances were at Anzac Day and the Highland Gathering in 1991. Since then they have performed in Queanbeyan and Canberra Festivals, numerous sporting events such as Canberra Raiders, Queanbeyan Tigers and North Melbourne matches, local netball march pasts, Masters Games, polo cross and many school and community events such as Floriade, the Uniting Church Fete, the Burra Fair and the Canberra Show."

Koolism

The members are lyricist Hau Latukefu (born Langomi-e-Hau Latukefu, 1976, Queanbeyan, Australia) and producer/DJ/musician Danielsan Ichiban (born Daniel Elleson, 1975, Auckland, New Zealand).

Majura Road

The road provides a convenient bypass of the city's Inner North from the Gungahlin district to Queanbeyan.

Matthew Mason-Cox

Mason-Cox operated an optometry business in the rural city of Queanbeyan.

Megan Marcks

Marcks is honoured within her home city of Queanbeyan (NSW, Australia) by the naming of "Megan Still Court", which is located adjacent to the Queanbeyan City Council Chambers.

Strangers in Between

Queanbeyan, The Q - Queanbeyan Performing Arts Centre, 6-7 May


Environa, New South Wales

It lies just east of the Queanbeyan-Cooma railway line as it goes past the industrial estate of Hume, ACT.

Mary Stevenson

In January 1925 she married Robert Stevenson, and they emigrated to Queanbeyan in New South Wales in March 1925, moving to the Canberra suburb of Griffith in 1926.

Queanbeyan District Hospital

Prior to the establishment of Royal Canberra Hospital in 1914, Queanbeyan Hospital was the hub for medical services in the Monaro region, and the newly formed Federal Capital Territory still relied in the hospital for services such as obstetrics.

Queanbeyan railway station

Queanbeyan is a railway station located on the border of Queanbeyan, New South Wales and Oaks Estate, Australian Capital Territory, Australia on the Canberra Line.

Queanbeyan River

It is believed that the local Aboriginal Ngarigo people used a word that sounded like queanbeyan to describe the river, said to mean "clearwater".

The Queanbeyan region is the traditional home of the Ngunnawal and the Ngarigo peoples.

Vanuatu branch of The Scout Association

In 1999 Norvan Vogt a Rover Scout from Queanbeyan Rovers, who was deployed with the Australian Youth Ambassadors for Development, was able to register the organisation, to establish a national HQ and to run a series of training activities This proved to be the catalyst for a sustained period of growth of Scouting in Vanuatu.


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