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ROCKHAMPTON

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 434 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROCKHAMPTON , a See also:

town of See also:Livingstone See also:county, See also:Queensland, See also:Australia, on the See also:Fitzroy See also:river 43 M. from its mouth, 335 M. in a See also:direct See also:line N.W. of See also:Brisbane. It has a beautiful situation, and its See also:climate, in spite of See also:heat, is healthy. It is the See also:port of a wide agricultural See also:district, which also produces See also:gold, See also:copper and See also:silver. Much of the See also:trade is carried on through the ports of See also:Alma and Broadmount, near the mouth of the river, both available for ocean steamers. Rockhampton has a large trade in frozen See also:meat, and there are factories for See also:extract and meat preserving. Rockhampton is the See also:terminus of the Queens-See also:land Central railway and the seat of an See also:Anglican and a See also:Roman See also:Catholic bishopric. See also:Population of the See also:municipality (Igor), 15,461; within the 5 M. See also:radius, 19,691; of the See also:separate municipality of See also:North Rockhampton, 2865.

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