Wandoan
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Wandoan is a town and locality in the Western Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. It was formerly known as Juandah. It is on the Leichhardt Highway about halfway between Taroom and Miles and is the centre for the local cattle industry. In the , the locality of Wandoan had a population of 666 people.
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- Instance of
- town
- Country
- Australia
- Located in
- Western Downs Region
- Population
- 417
- Elevation
- 276
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- Community Cultural Centre, Wandoan, 2014.JPG
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- Commons category
- Wandoan, Queensland
- postal code
- 4419
- male population
- 322
- female population
- 240
- associated electoral district
- Maranoa
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Wandoan is a town and locality in the Western Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. It was formerly known as Juandah. It is on the Leichhardt Highway about halfway between Taroom and Miles and is the centre for the local cattle industry. In the , the locality of Wandoan had a population of 666 people.
== History == The beginnings of the Wandoan township can be traced back to 1849 when 'Juandah' Station was established at this location after Herbert Salway and Percival Sydney Francis Stephen first tendered for a huge area of land: Juandah of and two other runs Coringa of and Cherwondah of . This area, defined in accordance with the 1847 Orders-in-Council, falls far short of the actual size of the holding, which has been estimated at —five and a half times as much. The aggregation of these three runs became known as Juandah and records show Percival Stephen was living on Juandah before August 1849.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wandoan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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