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moranbah Moranbah, Queensland, Australia.

Moranbah

Queensland, Australia
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Moranbah, new town, east-central Queensland, Australia. It lies about 120 miles (190 km) southwest of Mackay and 490 miles (790 km) northwest of the state capital, Brisbane. It is named after the parish of Moranbah, which itself was named after a local pastoral property, Morambah, which in turn probably took its name from Aboriginal sources. The town of Moranbah was founded in 1969 as the residential and service centre for the Goonyella and Peak Downs coal mines. Moranbah also has factories producing explosives and concrete blocks. The town expanded considerably in the early 1980s because of the development of an export market for coal from the nearby Riverside mine. Pop. (2006) 7,432; (2011) gazetted locality, 8,965.

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