Biggenden

History

The name is derived from the Kabi word bigindhan meaning a place of stringybark. Biggenden Provisional school opened on 9 May 1892 becoming Biggenden State School in 1900. In January 1953, the school experimented with offering high school subjects by correspondence. In 1958, a secondary school section was added. The Biggenden Methodist Church opened on Monday 23 May 1910. In 1939, a church hall was established, using the Methodist Church building established in Woowoonga in 1919, which had formerly been the Methodist church in Mount Perry, built in 1872. In 1977 through the amalgamation that created the Uniting Church in Australia, it became Biggenden Uniting Church. In June 1926, a meeting of local women decided to establish a branch of the Queensland Country Women's Association. In October 1928, the Biggenden branch's building was officially opened by J.C. Robertson, chairman of the Degilbo Shire Council. The Mt Biggenden mine provided employment to the local community for over a hundred years, before its magnetite iron ore operation closed in 1999.

Geography

Biggenden is on the Isis Highway north-west of the state capital Brisbane, and west of Maryborough.

Most-observed species

• Torresian Crow

  Corvus orru Bonaparte, 1850 · Aves
  83
• Australian Magpie

  Gymnorhina tibicen (Latham, 1802) · Aves
  68
• Rainbow Lorikeet

  Trichoglossus haematodus (Linnaeus, 1771) · Aves
  52
• Lewin's Honeyeater

  Meliphaga lewinii (Swainson, 1837) · Aves
  47
• Willie-wagtail

  Rhipidura leucophrys (Latham, 1802) · Aves
  47
• Bar-shouldered Dove

  Geopelia humeralis (Temminck, 1821) · Aves
  44
• Striated Pardalote

  Pardalotus striatus (Gmelin, 1789) · Aves
  43
• Laughing Kookaburra

  Dacelo novaeguineae (Hermann, 1783) · Aves
  41

Most recent

• M 4.9 — 2025-08-15
  12 km ESE of Cherbourg, Australia
• M 4.9 — 2015-02-15
  42 km N of Mundubbera, Australia
• M 4.4 — 2004-01-16
  27 km SE of Monto, Australia