Birdsville
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Birdsville is a rural town and locality in the Shire of Diamantina, Queensland, Australia. The locality is on the Queensland border with both the Northern Territory and South Australia. The town is situated north of the South Australian border. It is a popular tourist destination with many people using it as a starting point across the Simpson Desert. In the , the population of the locality of Birdsville was 110 people.
Key facts
- Australian place.type
- town
- Australian place.name
- Birdsville
- Australian place.state
- qld
- Australian place.image
- Birdsville Hotel.jpg
- Australian place.caption
- The Birdsville Hotel, adjacent to the apron of Birdsville Airport
- Australian place.local_map
- yes
- Australian place.zoom
- 6
- Australian place.pop
- 110
- Australian place.established
- 1887
- Australian place.postcode
- 4482
- Australian place.area
- 32956.2
- Australian place.timezone
- AEST
- Australian place.utc
- +10:00
- Australian place.dist1
- 162
- Australian place.dir1
- SSW
- Australian place.location1
- Bedourie
- Australian place.dist2
- 836
- Australian place.dir2
- WNW
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Country
- Australia
- Located in
- Shire of Diamantina
- Population
- 110
- Elevation
- 48
- Time zone
- UTC+10:00
- Image
- Birdsville Hotel.jpg
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- Commons category
- Birdsville, Queensland
- postal code
- 4482
- male population
- 80
- female population
- 67
- maximum temperature record
- 49.5
- associated electoral district
- Maranoa
- inception
- 1887-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Climate
- Birdsville disease
- In popular culture
- See also
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Birdsville is a rural town and locality in the Shire of Diamantina, Queensland, Australia. The locality is on the Queensland border with both the Northern Territory and South Australia. The town is situated north of the South Australian border. It is a popular tourist destination with many people using it as a starting point across the Simpson Desert. In the , the population of the locality of Birdsville was 110 people.
Betoota is a ghost town to the east of the town of Birdsville within the bounds of the locality.().
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Birdsville” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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