Type: | suburb |
Swans Lagoon | |
State: | qld |
Coordinates: | -20.1019°N 147.1605°W |
Pop: | 12 |
Postcode: | 4807 |
Area: | 468.9 |
Timezone: | AEST |
Utc: | +10:00 |
Dist1: | 23.1 |
Dir1: | SW |
Location1: | Millaroo |
Dist2: | 83.7 |
Dir2: | SW |
Location2: | Ayr |
Dist3: | 122 |
Dir3: | SSW |
Location3: | Townsville |
Dist4: | 1330 |
Dir4: | NNW |
Location4: | Brisbane |
Lga: | Shire of Burdekin |
Stategov: | Burdekin |
Fedgov: | Kennedy |
Near-N: | Mulgrave |
Near-Ne: | Millaroo |
Near-E: | Millaroo |
Near-Se: | Dalbeg |
Near-S: | Eight Mile Creek |
Near-Sw: | Ravenswood |
Near-W: | Mulgrave |
Near-Nw: | Mulgrave |
Swans Lagoon is a rural locality in the Shire of Burdekin, Queensland, Australia.[1] In the, Swans Lagoon had a population of 12 people.
Swans Lagoon has the following mountain features:
The land use is predominantly grazing on native vegetation.
The locality was named and bounded on 23 February 2001. It presumably takes its name from the waterhole of the same name .[1] [5] [6] The waterhole is named after a postman with surname Swan who often camped by the lagoon.[7]
The Queensland Government purchased an pastoral property called Swan's Lagoon in 1961 to establish a beef cattle research station. In 1978, the purchase of an adjacent pastoral property expanded the research station to . The research centre investigated problems relating to raising beef cattle in northern Australia, where cattle production is affected by inconsistent rainfalls, viruses and parasites.[7] The research station was sold in 2014, when the Queensland Government decided to transfer the research program to its Spyglass beef research facility at Basalt, north of Charters Towers.[8]
In the, Swans Lagoon had "no people or a very low population".
In the, Swans Lagoon had a population of 12 people.
There are no schools in Swans Lagoon. The nearest primary school is Millaroo State School in neighbouring Millaroo to the east. There are no nearby secondary schools. The options are distance education and boarding school.[9]