Postmans Ridge
District of Lockyer
in Lockyer Valley of Queensland, Australia
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Toowoomba Airport (10 mi) - Oakey Airport (22 mi)
- Warwick Airport (45 mi)
- Dalby Airport (56 mi)
- Brisbane Archerfield Airport (57 mi)
- Brisbane International Airport (64 mi)
- Kingaroy Airport (66 mi)
- Stanthorpe Airport (77 mi)
- Toowoomba Middle Ridge Golf Club (Golf course, 10 mi)
- Laidley Golf Club (Golf course, 21 mi)
- Decimal Coordinates (Latitude, Longitude):
- -27.513 and 152.082 (Lat./Lng.)
- Coordinates by Time:
- S -27° 30' 48" and E 152° 4' 56"
- Currency and Currency Code:
- Dollar - AUD
- Spoken languages:
- English
- Local electricity:
- Mobile phone / cellular frequencies (MHz):
- Local Time: 02:26 PM (Wednesday)
- Timezone: Australia/Brisbane
- UTC/GMT offset: 9.5 hours
- Sunrise and Sunset:
- 7:48 am and 9:30 pm
- Antipode Coordinates:
- 36.933 and -25.133 (Lat./Lng.)
- Closest place to antipode coordinates:
Figueiral - References
- This place on Geonames.org
Delve into Postmans Ridge
The district Postmans Ridge of Lockyer in Lockyer Valley (Queensland) is a district located in Australia about 563 mi north of Canberra, the country's capital town.
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Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 27°C / 81 °F
| Morning Temperature | 15°C / 59 °F |
| Evening Temperature | 24°C / 75 °F |
| Night Temperature | 17°C / 63 °F |
| Chance of rainfall | 0% |
| Air Humidity | 43% |
| Air Pressure | 1014 hPa |
| Wind Speed | Moderate breeze with 9 km/h (6 mph) from West |
| Cloud Conditions | Clear sky, covering 1% of sky |
| General Conditions | Sky is clear |
Thursday, 28th of November 2024
28°C (83 °F)
18°C (64 °F)
Sky is clear, moderate breeze, clear sky.
Friday, 29th of November 2024
24°C (76 °F)
18°C (64 °F)
Light rain, moderate breeze, overcast clouds.
Saturday, 30th of November 2024
24°C (76 °F)
19°C (66 °F)
Moderate rain, gentle breeze, overcast clouds.
Hotels and Places to Stay
Great Divide Motor Inn
Applegum Inn
Comfort Inn Grammar View
Videos from this area
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Toowoomba Grammar School TGS Formal 16th Nov 2013 Red Carpet
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Lights on the Hill memorial convoy leaving Toowoomba
Just a tiny fraction of the Lights on the Hill memorial convoy leaving Toowoomba, heading down the range to Gatton, 27th February 2010. www.lightsonthehill.com.
Trains making U turns : QR in Toowoomba : Australian trains and railroads
A westbound empty coal train and the eastbound empty pipe train round the almost 180 degree turn over Bridge Street in Toowoomba.
Star Wars in Toowoomba Australia
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QR Cattle Train at Rangeview, Toowoomba, Queensland (18-sep-11).
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Colliers Counter Lunch 126 Margaret Street, Toowoomba Q...
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142 Perth Street, South Toowoomba QLD By Matthew DeMaid
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34 Tourist Road, East Toowoomba QLD By Matthew DeMaid
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2008 Toowoomba Table Tennis Open Championship open singles
Steve and Stefan compete in the open singles, Toowoomba, Queensland. http://www.sci.usq.edu.au/ttta.
Queensland Ballet's Giselle
WORLD PREMIERE Empire Theatre Toowoomba - 22 May, 7.30pm http://www.empiretheatre.com.au/whats-on/events/view/240/queensland-ballets-giselle Ph.1300 655 299 Beautiful and haunting, ...
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
Cobb & Co Museum
The Cobb and Co Museum is located in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. The museum was opened in 1987 when the Queensland Museum was looking for space to display its catalogue of horse drawn vehicles. Instead of taking up the huge amount of space required to display the collection properly at its Brisbane campus, the museum decided to open up a new campus in Toowoomba.
Electoral district of Toowoomba East
The Electoral district of Toowoomba East was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. It was created with the 1960 redistribution and removed by the 1972 redistribution. The seat was based on the City of Toowoomba. The member for Toowoomba, Mervyn Anderson successfully stood for election in Toowoomba East in 1960 after his previous seat was lost in the redistribution.
Electoral district of East Toowoomba
The Electoral District of East Toowoomba was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. It was created in 1912 when the old seat of Drayton & Toowoomba split into East Toowoomba, Toowoomba and Drayton. East Toowoomba ceased to exist in 1950. In the 1960 redistribution, a seat of Toowoomba East was created that lasted until 1972. When East Toowoomba was lost to redistribution, Sir Gordon Chalk contested the seat of Lockyer successfully.
Fairholme College
Fairholme College is an independent, day and boarding school for girls, located in Toowoomba, one of Australia's largest provincial cities, in South East Queensland, Australia. Established as Spreydon College in 1908 by sisters Elizabeth, Jessie and Margaret Thomson, the college has a non-selective enrolment policy, and currently caters for approximately 845 students from Kindergarten to Year 12, including 240 boarders in Years 5 to 12.
Centenary Heights State High School
Centenary Heights State High School is a State High School located in the suburb of Centenary Heights in Toowoomba, Queensland, with an enrolment of 1200 students. The school is one of several schools in Toowoomba, including two other state high schools, Toowoomba State High School and Harristown State High School.
Downlands College
Downlands College, officially Downlands Sacred Heart College, is a private, secondary, coeducational, day and boarding school in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. Founded by the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart in 1931, the College began as a boarding school for boys with a total enrolment of 68. Downlands is Queensland's only Catholic, coeducational, day and boarding school.
Clive Berghofer Stadium
Clive Berghofer Stadium, previously and still unofficially known as "Toowoomba Stadium", is a stadium in Toowoomba, Queensland. Situated on Mary Street on the eastern fringes of Toowoomba CBD adjacent to Queens Park and Toowoomba East State School. The ticket counters and entrance are on Arthur Street behind the (east facing) grandstand. It was retitled to reflect the home club's major sponsor, philanthropist property developer and former local Mayor Clive Berghofer.
Toowoomba State High School
Toowoomba State High School (TSHS) is a co-educational State High School located in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. Established in 1919, the school consists of two campuses, the Mount Lofty campus, and the Wilsonton campus, with 1902 students.
Toowoomba Preparatory School
Toowoomba Preparatory School is a private co-educational primary school located in Toowoomba, Queensland, known locally and colloquially as "Prep". It has an average enrolment of approximately 500 students, and has a mixed non-selective enrolment of day and boarding students encompassing Kindergarten to Grade 7. The School is an Anglican school, and a member of the Brisbane Anglican Diocese. The school's legal entity is The Corporation of the Synod of the Diocese of Brisbane.
Helidon, Queensland
Helidon is a town in the Lockyer Valley region of south east Queensland, Australia. Helidon is located on the Warrego Highway, 106 kilometres west of the state capital, Brisbane and 21 kilometres east of Toowoomba. The town had a population of 567 at the 2006 census.
Roman Catholic Diocese of Toowoomba
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Toowoomba is a Latin rite suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Brisbane, established in 1929, covering the Darling Downs and south west regions of Queensland, Australia. St Patrick's Cathedral is the seat of the Catholic Bishop of Toowoomba. The diocese covers an area of 487,000 sq km. with 48 priests and 57 members of religious orders. There are 77,400 Catholics among the 276,700 total population within the diocese's borders.
Murphys Creek, Queensland
Murphys Creek is a town in Queensland, Australia, located at the foot of the Great Dividing Range. The town's name is correctly spelled without an apostrophe.
St. Joseph's College, Toowoomba
St Joseph's College is located in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. The school was founded by the Irish Christian Brothers as an all-boys school in 1956. The school, off James Street, Toowoomba, is no longer administered by the Christian Brothers. Its website is here. The school motto is to "Serve Him In Others", meaning to serve God in others. There are currently approximately 700 students enrolled at the college.
Toowoomba Grammar School
Toowoomba Grammar School is an independent, non-denominational, day and boarding grammar school for boys, in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. The school was founded in 1875 as a consequence of the Grammar Schools Act of 1860 passed by Queensland's first parliament. The original building was designed by Willoughby Powell and completed in 1876, first opening its doors to boys on 1 February 1877.
Withcott
Withcott is a town in the Lockyer Valley region of Queensland, Australia. The town is located on the Warrego Highway, 116 kilometres west of the state capital, Brisbane and 10 kilometres east of the regional centre of Toowoomba. At the 2006 census, Withcott had a population of 1,000. During the 2010–2011 Queensland floods, Withcott suffered extensive damage when a flash flood hit the town on 10 January 2011.
Ballard, Queensland
Ballard is a locality east of Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, located 11 kilometres from the city centre. It is located within the Lockyer Valley Region. The locality, historically known as Ballaroo, is named for Robert Ballard, a railway engineer who oversaw the construction of part of the Ipswich–Toowoomba railway.
East Toowoomba, Queensland
East Toowoomba is a suburb of Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, located 2 kilometres from the central business district.
Harlaxton, Queensland
Harlaxton is a suburb of Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, located 4 kilometres north of the city centre. The name originates from Harlaxton House, probably named for Harlaxton in Lincolnshire, England, and built in 1869 in what is now Munro Street as the residence of Francis Thomas Gregory.
Mount Lofty, Queensland
Mount Lofty is an inner suburb of Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, located 3 kilometres north-east of the city centre. Jubilee Park, a large parkland and bushland area with numerous riding trails, forms the eastern part of the suburb. At the end of North Street is the peak of Mount Lofty, which features a garden and rainforest, a lookout, and the transmission tower for WIN Television. Nearby is Toowoomba State High School (Mount Lofty Campus) and a rifle range used by Toowoomba Rifle Club.
North Toowoomba, Queensland
North Toowoomba is an inner suburb of Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, located directly north of the city centre.
Prince Henry Heights, Queensland
Prince Henry Heights is a suburb of Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, located 5 kilometres east of the city centre. It was named for Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, who served as Governor-General of Australia from 1945 until 1947; the suburb's boundary road had been known as Prince Henry Drive well before 1945. The suburb consists of a small residential area surrounded by Jubilee Park and Redwood Park, two large bushland reserves along Toowoomba's eastern edge.
Redwood, Queensland
Redwood is a suburb of Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, located 5 kilometres east of the city centre via Warrego Highway. Half of the suburb's area consists of Redwood Park, after which the suburb was named in 1981; the rest, to the south of the highway, is mostly crown land. The residents of Redwood live along the suburb's boundary with East Toowoomba.
Rangeville, Queensland
Rangeville is a suburb of Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, located 5 kilometres south-east of the city centre. As closer settlement moved further along the range from Toowoomba, the suburb appears to have been named Rangeville to distinguish it from The Range, which was the general term for the area along the Range.
Spring Bluff, Queensland
Spring Bluff is a locality north of Toowoomba, Queensland. It is situated 15 kilometres north of the city centre via New England Highway, and is adjacent to the town of Highfields. The area is named after a railway station in the area, which was built in the 1860s to allow trains a place to stop during the steep climb from Brisbane to nearby Toowoomba. In 1890, it was named Spring Bluff after the spring water and the sandstone bluff in the area.
Heritage Oval
Heritage Oval is a cricket ground in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. The first recorded match on the ground came in 1972 when Toowoomba played Queensland. It held its only first-class match in 1994 when Queensland played an England XI side, with the match ending in a victory by 37 runs for the England XI. The ground later held a Twenty20 match in the 2006–07 Big Bash when Queensland played Victoria, with Queensland winning by 38 runs.
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Blanchview: Toowoomba Range − Bottom (Looking up − west), Blanchview (source)
Blanchview: Toowoomba Range − Bottom (East toward Helidon), Blanchview (source)
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