Description
Gumlu is a town and coastal locality in the Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia.
Gumlu is a town and coastallocality in the Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia.
History
The town takes its name from the Gumlu railway station which was assigned by the Queensland Railways Department on 15 January 1912, and is believed to be a corruption of an Aboriginal word gunyaloo, meaning rock wallaby.Molongle Creek Provisional School opened on 13 October 1913 and became Molongle Creek State School on 1 December 1914. In 1920 it was renamed Gumlu State School.Houses have boomed in Gumlu lately by about 100% in a year, because of a coal mine opening up.
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Population: 101 - 1,000
Time zone: UTC +10:00
Area: 388.573 km2
Elevation: 11 to 50 metres
Town elevation: 17 m
Population number: 181
Local Government Area: Whitsunday Regional Council
Attribution
This article contains content imported from the English Wikipedia article on Gumlu, Queensland