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Surat, Queensland : ウィキペディア英語版 | Surat, Queensland
Surat is a small rural town on the Balonne River, approximately south of Roma on the Carnarvon Highway in South West Queensland. It is west of Brisbane. At the , Surat had a population of 426. The district was first mapped by Surveyor-General Sir Thomas Mitchell in 1846. By the end of the 1840s pastoralists had penetrated the area, and in 1849 Mitchell directed a surveyor, Burrowes, to select a township site on the Balonne River. Burrowes did so and named it after the diamond-polishing city of Surat, after his former place of residence in present-day Gujarat state, then known as the Bombay Province, India.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Queensland Places )〕 There are oil fields further south. == Facilities==
Surat has a public library, a Cobb & Co changing station, social history museum, theatre and shire hall and the Balonne gallery.
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