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  gladstone - sunzine - queensland australia
The Gladstone community has grown dramatically from a "sleepy hollow" township to a major industrial city in less than 20 years, yet has retained the charm of a coastal resort setting with an enviable lifestyle.
To the south of the city lie the shires of Calliope and Miriam Vale.
Gladstone is a harbour city which has captured both the enthusiasm of its citizens and the attention of the world.
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 Australia
Australia is famous for its vast open spaces, bright sunshine, enormous numbers of sheep and cattle, and unusual wildlife.
Australia is the leading producer and exporter of wool and bauxite (the ore from which aluminium is made).
Australia is the world's largest producer and exporter of wool and a leading producer and exporter of beef, sugar, and wheat.
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 Gladstone, South Australia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In 1927, the line south of Gladstone to Hamley Bridge was converted to 5′ 3″ broad gauge, making Gladstone a break-of-gauge junction.
In the 1980s, the broad and narrow gauge lines were closed, leaving Gladstone as a purely standard gauge station.
Gladstone is in the state electorate of Frome, the federal Division of Grey, and the Northern Areas Council.
www.seattleluxury.com.cob-web.org:8888 /encyclopedia/entry/Gladstone,_South_Australia   (216 words)

  
 Gladstone - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Gladstone, William Ewart (1809-1898), four times prime minister of Britain (1868-1874, 1880-1885, 1886, and 1892-1894), and one of the dominant...
Gladstone (Australia), city and port on the central coast of eastern Australia just south of the tropic of Capricorn in the state of Queensland....
Gladstone (Missouri), city, Clay County, western Missouri, near the Missouri River; incorporated 1952.
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 Gladstone, South Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gladstone (33°16′S 138°21′E) is a town in the Mid North of South Australia.
Gladstone is located on the main Port Pirie to Broken Hill railway, with branches going north and south.
Gladstone is in the state electoral district of Frome, the federal Division of Grey, and the Northern Areas Council.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gladstone,_South_Australia   (222 words)

  
 Gladstone - South Australia - Australia - Travel - theage.com.au
Located 209 km north of Adelaide, Gladstone is a medium-sized service town in an area dominated by wheat and sheep.
It wasn't until 1871 that the town was formally surveyed and the name Gladstone (an honour to the British Prime Minister William Gladstone) was given to the new settlement.
The town's main attraction is Gladstone Gaol, located in Park Terrace at the northern end of town, which was built between 1879-81 at a cost of £21,640.
www.theage.com.au /news/South-Australia/Gladstone/2005/02/17/1108500204263.html   (553 words)

  
 Walkabout - Gladstone
The Gladstone area was first explored by Captain Cook in 1770 sighted and named Bustard Head to the south of the city.
Gladstone's first wharf was built at Auckland Point in 1885, it was connected to Brisbane by rail in 1897 but by 1960 it still only had a population of 7200 and its economy was dependent on its importance as a port.
Although it had the huge advantage of a superb natural harbour (Port Curtis) Gladstone remained a relatively small port serving the local cattle industry until 1961 when the export of coal from the Moura fields to the west resulted in a huge increase in both population and port activity.
www.walkabout.com.au /locations/QLDGladstone.shtml   (1279 words)

  
 Australia Travel Tips
Off the coast of Gladstone are stunning tropical islands surrounded by coral reefs.
Turtles are a special resident of the Gladstone region and great care is taken to provide them with sanctuary.
Upon the land, subtropical rainforests adorn the region with a lush blanket of green.
www.southtravels.com /pacific/australia/traveltips/quennsland.html   (1645 words)

  
 Gladstone
Gladstone was one of the many towns born of the great wheat drive which followed the proclamation of the Strangways Act in 1869 and the good seasons of the early 1870s.
Gladstone soon became a thriving community of farmers, railway men, goal employees and townsmen and their wives and children.
A school was also established in 1874 and the Gladstone Hotel in 1875, run by the father of C.J. Dennis.
www.southaustralianhistory.com.au /gladstone.htm   (988 words)

  
 Gladstone, Australia
The coal supplies a huge power station in Gladstone and the surplus is exported, mainly to Japan.
Gladstone also processes the bauxite worked at Weipa on the Cape York Peninsula, producing aluminum oxide at Parsons Point and then aluminum on Boyne Island.
A number of old buildings in the modern town bear witness to Gladstone's past, for example the Grand Hotel (1897) and the church of Our Lady Star of the Sea, in a mingling of different styles.
www.planetware.com /australia/gladstone-aus-qld-gs.htm   (201 words)

  
 Australia Country Analysis Brief
Australia ’s oil reserves, mostly located offshore of the northwestern and southeastern parts of the country, are estimated at 3.5 billion barrels (Oil and Gas Journal, 1/1/04), a 20% increase over 2001 reserves.
Australia ’s natural gas consumption is projected to grow twice as fast as the consumption of other energy sources in the next two decades, and it is expected to account for 24% of total energy consumption by 2020.
Australia is estimated to contain 90.5 billion short tons (Bst) of coal reserves, the majority of which are concentrated along the country’s eastern seaboard.
www.eia.doe.gov /cabs/australia.html   (4822 words)

  
 South Australia
Most people, when they think of South Australia picture Adelaide, its fine elegant capital, or the wine-growing regions of the Barossa Valley or the Coonawarra, or perhaps the spine of mountains that is the Flinders Ranges, the great expanse of shifting sand of the Simpson Desert or the flatness that is the Nullarbor Plain.
All these are, most definitely, images of South Australia, but the state has much more to offer a traveller than just a few isolated images and experiences stretched across a large slice of Australia.
That makes South Australia the driest state in the driest continent on earth—anywhere away from the more luxuriant south-east of the state the country ranges from semi-arid to desert.
www.worldtourism.com.au /SouthAustralia   (1336 words)

  
 Australia Judicial Assistance
Australia Central Authority: The Australia Central Authority for requests under the Hague Evidence Convention is the Secretary to the Attorney-General''s Department of the Commonwealth of Australia.
Pursuant to Australia''s declaration on acceding to the Convention, permission must be obtained from the Australian Central Authority in order to conduct a deposition before a diplomatic or consular officer.
Australia did not make any specific declaration on its accession to the Convention as to whether evidence may be taken under this Article without prior permission of the Australia Central Authority.
travel.state.gov /law/info/judicial/judicial_655.html   (2437 words)

  
 Australia: History, Geography, Government, and Culture — FactMonster.com
The continent of Australia, with the island state of Tasmania, is approximately equal in area to the United States (excluding Alaska and Hawaii).
Australia became known for its liberal legislation: free compulsory education, protected trade unionism with industrial conciliation and arbitration, the secret ballot, women's suffrage, maternity allowances, and sickness and old-age pensions.
Australia has been the victim of two significant terrorist attacks in recent years: the 2002 Bali, Indonesia, bombings by a group with ties to al-Qaeda in which 202 died, many of whom were Australian, and the 2004 attack on the Australian embassy in Indonesia, which killed ten.
www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0107296.html   (1117 words)

  
 Gladstone Southern Flinders Discovery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The township of Gladstone, situated 209 kms north of Adelaide, was named after one of the British Empire's most illustrious statesman, The Right Honorable William Ewart Gladstone.
The town's rich heritage is an interesting mix of farming, railways, military and the famous historic Gladstone Gaol.
Once the major railway junction in the mid-north, it is now the location of the largest inland grain receival facility in Australia.
www.gladstone.org.au   (159 words)

  
 CQU Gladstone Campus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
South along Highway 1, 132 kilometres from Rockhampton, is the deepwater port and industrial centre of Gladstone.
CQU's Gladstone campus, located beside the Gladstone yacht harbour, is home to the University's Engineering and Environmental Management Complex devoted to research and training, and which provides a venue for conferences and residential schools.
Gladstone is remarkable for having managed the successful coexistence of the industry that fuels dynamic economic growth, and tourism based on the beaches, islands and reef of the World Heritage Listed Great Barrier Reef area of which it is a part.
www.cqu.edu.au /about/gladstone.htm   (292 words)

  
 South Australia
South Australia, the driest state of the driest continent, is split into two very distinct halves.
In contrast with the gentle and cultured southeast, the remainder of South Australia – with the exception of the relatively refined Eyre Peninsula and its strikingly scenic west coast – is unremittingly harsh desert, a naked country of vast horizons, salt lakes, glazed gibber plains and ancient mountain ranges.
The Ghan to Alice Springs is one of Australia’s great train journeys; as is the Indian Pacific between Perth and Sydney, which passes through Adelaide – though if you hop on the eastbound train here, you’ll have missed traversing part of the country, which is really the point of the journey.
www.pacificislandtravel.com /australia/southaustralia/sa_intro.asp   (736 words)

  
 Gladstone Gaol: In the Mid North region of South Australia
Gladstone Gaol: In the Mid North region of South Australia
Gladstone Gaol in the mid north of South Australia, was first used to house "inebriates, debtors and other prisoners." But it seems the civic fathers over estimated the scale of any future crime wave by debt-ridden drunks because, throughout its ninety four-year history, the gaol was only ever half full.
Gladstone the site chosen for a major regional prison because of it's importance as a railway hub.
www.postcards.sa.com.au /features/gladstone_gaol.html   (654 words)

  
 Gladstone (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Erskine William Gladstone (born 1925), The Scout Association notable, Chief Scout of the United Kingdom, 1972–1982, awardee of the Bronze Wolf in 1985
Gladstone Pereira della Valentina (born 1985), Brazilian footballer
Gladstone Publishing, the name of the company that published Disney Comics books from 1986 to 1990 and 1993 to 1998, formerly known as Another Rainbow
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gladstone_(disambiguation)   (280 words)

  
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Gladstone is a medium-sized service town which is 209 km north of Adelaide.
The town, which gained it's name in 1871 (an honour to the British Prime Minister William Gladstone) is in an area dominated by wheat and sheep.
Gladstone appeals to many with its broad streets and buildings dating back into the 1800s.
www.communitywebs.org /GladstoneDevelopmentTouri   (173 words)

  
 South Australia Holiday, Adelaide Holidays - South Australia Accommodation & Hotels
The choice is staggering: meet the locals in friendly bush pubs up north; taste globe-trotting wines at cellars doors across the south; watch whales in the west and mooch on the Murray in the east.
South Australia has many diverse tourism regions – and all are within an easy day's drive of Adelaide.
Adelaide, you can swim with dolphins 20 minutes from the city centre, or sit on an endless sandy beach all morning and head to the hills for wine tasting in the afternoon.
www.southaustralia.visitorsbureau.com.au   (261 words)

  
 Gladstone Hotels : Australia - BootsnAll Cheap Hotels
Gladstone provides a perfect gateway to barrier Reef, The Tondoon Botanic Gardens, Curtis Island, Gladstone Regional Art Gallery and Museum, Potters Place and Gladstone Marina.
Considering itself as an ideal destination for family, leisure or business visitors, Country Plaza International Hotel Gladstone is located in the heart of city centre, minutes to the major retailers and service providers.
The Tondoon Botanic Gardens, Gladstone Regional Art Gallery and Museum, Barney Point as well as the Potters Place are some of the attractions to be visited.
www.bootsnall.com /hotels/cy/197/Gladstone-Hotels   (606 words)

  
 Gladstone Pacific Nickel Limited
The company's vision is to build a major long-life nickel cobalt refinery at the deepwater Port of Gladstone, in Central Queensland, Australia, treating abundant high grade nickel laterite ores from New Caledonia and other south-west Pacific islands, underpinned by beneficiated ores from its own Marlborough deposits.
The Project has the potential to be one of the largest of its type in the world producing some 126,000 tpa nickel (8 -10% of global nickel demand) and 10,400 tpa of cobalt metal from its first two stages.
The Annual General Meeting of Gladstone Pacific Nickel Limited is to be held on Thursday 30 November 2006.
www.gladstonepacific.com.au   (211 words)

  
 Caravan Parks Association of South Australia (SA) - Gladstone - Gladstone Caravan Park (via CobWeb/3.1 ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Gladstone Has featured prominently in the rural history of South Australia.
The historic Gladstone Gaol, opened in 1881 and closed in 1975 is now a key tourist attraction.
Gladstone is also home of the last family owned soft drink manufacturer in South Australia.
www.sa-caravan-parks-association.com.cob-web.org:8888 /glacp.html   (320 words)

  
 GLADSTONE, CAPRICORN COAST, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA
The dynamic, modern city of Gladstone basks in a sub-tropical climate with islands, waterways and beaches providing year-round boating, fishing, swimming and surfing.
The summer high temperature for Gladstone is approximately 30 °c.
The winter high temperature for Gladstone is approximately 23 °c.
www.australianexplorer.com /gladstone.htm   (262 words)

  
 Noonsite: Gladstone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
This is one of Australia's busiest commercial ports and several large vessels can be manouvering at the same time.
Be aware that Gladstone is in the cyclone belt.
South East Asian Maritime Net frequency modification (13 Nov 2001)
www.noonsite.com /Countries/Australia/Gladstone/?rc=PortProfile   (753 words)

  
 Australian Red Cross
A special emergency appeal has been launched by Australian Red Cross to assist the people affected by the tragic Factory Blast in Gladstone South Australia on Tuesday.
Kerry Symons, Executive Director, Australian Red Cross, South Australia, says the Gladstone SA Factory Blast Appeal has been set up in cooperation with the State Government to help victims and their families.
People can ring toll free on the Red Cross Gladstone SA Factory Blast Appeal line on 1800 811 700 or can visit http://www.redcross.org.au/ to make a donation to aid those affected.
www.redcross.org.au /sa/news_gladstoneAppeal.htm   (249 words)

  
 Welcome to Riverton and South Australian Railways   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
My project is a brief description and history of The Northern Railway devision of South Australia, which covers an area from Riverton and Clare in the south to Yunta and Quorn in the North.
This old historical map of South Australia and her Railways will help you understand the vast network of railways which made up The Northern Railway Devision..
It was at Riverton Station in March 1921 where Mr Brookfield,a New South Wales State politician, met his end when he was shot by a Russian Imigrant, Tomayeff.
www.trainweb.org /mystation/welcome.htm   (1101 words)

  
 Gladstone, South Australia - Travelmate
Few folk would be happy to claim a lockup as their town’s greatest tourist attraction, but, when it comes to prisons, Gladstone Gaol is one right out of the history pages.
Two years in the building, Gladstone Gaol opened in 1881 to provide temporary quarters for ‘inebriates, debtors and other prisoners’.
Today the gaol shares the Gladstone heritage spotlight with the Gladstone Hotel which was the childhood home of Australian poet, C.J. Dennis.
www.travelmate.com.au /Places/Places.asp?TownName=Gladstone_\_SA   (311 words)

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