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Kilkivan, Queensland : ウィキペディア英語版 | Kilkivan, Queensland
Kilkivan is a town in the South Burnett region of Queensland, Australia. The town is located on the Wide Bay Highway, north of the state capital, Brisbane and west of Gympie. At the 2011 census, Kilkivan had a population of 691.〔 ==History== Kilkivan was first inhabited by the Gubbi Gubbi tribe of the Australian Aboriginal peoples. The town was first settled by Europeans in the 1840s. Queensland’s first gold discovery was at Kilkivan in 1852 and subsequent findings escalated into a gold rush in the 1860s. The town was named for a pastoral run owned by pastoralist John Daniel Mactaggart after his father's farm name in Kintyre, Scotland.〔(Natural Resources and Water, Queensland ) – Place Name section〕 Kilkivan Post Office opened on 8 June 1868. It was known as Neureum between 1876 and 1881. The Kilkivan War Memorial commemorates those of the district who served in the wars. It was dedicated on 28 March 1996.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://monumentaustralia.org.au/themes/conflict/multiple/display/91802-kilkivan-war-memorial )〕
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