36 Facts About Rockhampton

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Rockhampton is a city in the Rockhampton Region of Central Queensland, Australia.

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Today, Rockhampton is an industrial and agricultural centre of the north, and is the regional centre of Central Queensland.

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Rockhampton is one of the oldest cities in Queensland and in Northern Australia.

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The town of Rockhampton was proclaimed in 1858, and surveyed by William Henry Standish, Arthur F Wood and Francis Clarke, the chosen street design closely resembled the Hoddle Grid in Melbourne and consisted of a grid of wide boulevards and laneways, which was uncommon in Queensland.

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The Darumbal language region includes the city of Rockhampton extending south towards Raglan Creek and north towards the Styx River and inland along the Broad Sound Ranges.

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Permanent British settlement at the Rockhampton township began in July 1856, when Richard Palmer travelled from Gladstone with an escort of Native Police under sub-Lieutenant Walter Powell to set up a store.

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Significant gold deposit at Mount Morgan to the southwest was discovered in the 1880s, and Rockhampton became the main port through which the wealth of Mount Morgan gold was channelled.

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The historic streetscape of Quay Street still displays a number of substantial historic buildings, built when Rockhampton was envisaged as being capital of a state of North Queensland.

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In September 1892 the Anglican Church in Rockhampton was the first new building in Rockhampton to be lit by electricity from the new gasworks.

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In 1889 the people of Rockhampton established the Central Queensland Territorial Separation League, a secessionist movement with the intentions of breaking away from the state of Queensland.

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In 2003, Rockhampton was the centre of significant national media interest after local teenager Natasha Ryan was found in the North Rockhampton home of her boyfriend, Scott Black, after being missing for five years.

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Rockhampton has a north and south side with three bridges connecting the two sides, one for trains and two for vehicles and people.

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Fitzroy River at Rockhampton has a long and well documented history of flooding with flood records dating back to 1859.

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The second highest flood in Rockhampton was recorded on 19 February 1954, when the Fitzroy River peaked at a height of 9.

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Two large abattoirs are located on the south-eastern outskirts of Rockhampton provides employment for people living in Rockhampton and for refugees from overseas who are recruited when the companies experience difficulty finding local workers to fill vacancies.

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Rockhampton promotes itself as the Beef Capital of Australia but the title has been disputed a number of times by the New South Wales town of Casino.

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Management of Aurizon's Rockhampton site was criticised by the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union in 2016 who described it as "appalling", prompting 60 workers to walk off the job citing lack of consultation, lack of adequate training for apprentices, a lack of privacy and unfair demands from management for workers to increase productivity.

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Rockhampton is believed to be the very first city in Australia to hold an early morning commemoration intentionally scheduled to coincide with when the landing at Gallipoli took place, as the city held a "daybreak" service at 6:30 am on 25 April 1916, in which 700 people attended.

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Rockhampton has played quite an important role in the production and exhibition of films in Central Queensland.

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20.

Rockhampton Zoo is located between the Botanic Gardens and Murray Lagoon.

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21.

Archer Park Steam Tram Museum covers the development and history of rail-based transportation in the major central Queensland town of Rockhampton and is set in the 100-year-old Archer Park rail station on Denison Street on the city's southside.

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Rockhampton is a base for the Royal Flying Doctor Service and the Capricorn Helicopter Rescue Service which operates clinics and provides emergency evacuations in remote communities throughout the region.

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Rockhampton is a major education centre for the region and has numerous state and private primary and high schools.

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Rockhampton has had a number of newspapers published in the city since European settlement.

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In 2012, a new Rockhampton newspaper called The Queensland Telegraph was launched by Queensland Media Holdings.

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Rockhampton is serviced by a number of commercial, community and ABC stations.

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Triple M in Rockhampton produces a local news service with a journalist based at the station, compiling and recording local news bulletins for Triple M and sister station Hit Central Queensland.

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Rockhampton is served by three commercial stations and two public broadcasters.

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Rockhampton is an important transport hub in the Central Queensland region.

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Rockhampton provides important transport links between the Central Highlands and Capricorn Coast regions and the areas to the north and south of the state.

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Rockhampton Airport is essential to the viability of the tourism industry.

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Rockhampton region is well serviced by the national and state highway systems, with the city being located at the main junction of the coastal highway, the Bruce Highway, the central western highway, the Capricorn Highway, and the Rockhampton Hinterland is serviced by the Burnett Highway.

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Rockhampton is served by long-distance coaches to Brisbane in the south, and as far as Cairns in the north.

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Bus services are operated by Sunbus Rockhampton, which operates under the QConnect public transport system.

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Rockhampton has one major taxi company, Yellow Cabs, who service the City of Rockhampton, Gracemere, and some services in Yeppoon and Emu Park.

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Denison St, Rockhampton is one of the few places where the main line runs down the middle of the street.

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