Goondiwindi

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Goondiwindi
Goondiwindi - War Memorial Park Monument.jpg
Goondiwindi, War Memorial Park Monument
State : AustraliaAustralia Australia
State : Flag of Queensland.svg Queensland
Founded : 1888
Coordinates : 28 ° 33 ′  S , 150 ° 19 ′  E Coordinates: 28 ° 33 ′  S , 150 ° 19 ′  E
Height : 217  m
Area : 20.0  km²
Residents : 5,527 (2016)
Population density : 276 inhabitants per km²
Time zone : AEST (UTC + 10)
Postal code : 4390
LGA : Goondiwindi Regional Council
Goondiwindi (Queensland)
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Climate diagram
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Temperature in ° C ,  precipitation in mm
Source: Bureau of Meteorology, Australia, data: 1991–2002, 1879–1991
Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Goondiwindi
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 33.7 32.0 31.1 27.5 22.9 19.4 18.8 21.1 24.8 28.1 30.5 32.2 O 26.8
Min. Temperature (° C) 20.0 19.3 17.0 12.6 9.5 5.8 4.7 5.3 9.0 13.1 16.2 18.2 O 12.5
Precipitation ( mm ) 78.5 69.0 59.5 38.7 42.9 40.6 41.9 33.1 39.0 48.7 59.8 69.8 Σ 621.5
Rainy days ( d ) 7.3 6.2 5.5 4.3 4.8 5.4 5.6 5.0 5.0 6.3 6.3 7.1 Σ 68.8
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Source: Bureau of Meteorology, Australia, data: 1991–2002, 1879–1991

Goondiwindi is a small town in southern Queensland , Australia . Goondiwindi is located about 350 kilometers southwest of the capital Brisbane on the Macintyre River on the border with New South Wales . Goondiwindi has about 5,500 inhabitants and is the seat of the local administrative area of the same name (LGA) Goondiwindi Regional Council . The name of the city comes from the language of the Aborigines and means something like resting place of the birds .

Goondiwindi was founded in 1888. At the time, the city was one of the few border crossings between the colonies of Queensland and New South Wales. The city lost this function with the establishment of the Australian Federation in 1901. From this time the old customs post, which today houses a museum, has been preserved in the city.

Today Goondiwindi is an important transport hub in south Queensland. Numerous highways meet in and around the city: from Miles in the north the Leichhardt Highway , from Toowoomba in the northeast the Gore Highway , from Warwick in the east the Cunningham Highway , from the southeast the Bruxner Highway , from Moree in the south the Newell Highway and from St. George on the west of the Barwon Highway .

sport and freetime

Since 1989, the "Hell of the West Triathlon" has been held here every year in February, a triathlon over the middle distance (2 km swimming, 80 km cycling and 20 km running).

Web links

Commons : Goondiwindi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Australian Bureau of Statistics : Goondiwindi ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved April 14, 2020.
  2. ↑ Bureau of Meteorology, Australia: Klimainformationen Goondiwindi. World Meteorological Organization, accessed April 6, 2012 .
  3. ↑ Emma Bilham second at the Hell-of-the-west-Triathlon ( Memento of the original from February 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (February 6, 2017)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.swisstriathlon.ch