Gumlu

History

The town takes its name from the Gumlu railway station which was assigned by the Queensland Railways Department on 15 January 1912, and is believed to be a corruption of an Aboriginal word gunyaloo, meaning rock wallaby. It became Molongle Creek State School on 1 December 1914. In 1920 it was renamed Gumlu State School. Houses have boomed in Gumlu lately by about 100% in a year, because of a coal mine opening up.

Geography

Gumlu is located in between Home Hill and Bowen. It is by road from Home Hill and by road from Bowen. The town of Gumlu is located near the eastern boundary of the suburb. The Bruce Highway and the North Coast railway line traverse the locality from east to west passing through the town. There are three railway stops within the locality: * Bobawaba railway station () * Wakala railway station, now abandoned () is the eastern boundary and Wangaratta Creek () is the western boundary. The north-eastern half of the locality is most flat land at sea level with the south-western half rising gradually with unnamed peaks of about 300 metres.

Most-observed species

• brolga

  Grus rubicunda (Perry, 1810) · Aves
  117
• Black Kite

  Milvus migrans (Boddaert, 1783) · Aves
  114
• Black-necked Stork

  Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus (Latham, 1790) · Aves
  92
• Australian Ibis

  Threskiornis molucca (Cuvier, 1829) · Aves
  89
• Magpie-lark

  Grallina cyanoleuca (Latham, 1802) · Aves
  85
• Whistling Kite

  Haliastur sphenurus (Vieillot, 1818) · Aves
  78
• Masked Lapwing

  Vanellus miles (Boddaert, 1783) · Aves
  78
• Australian Magpie

  Gymnorhina tibicen (Latham, 1802) · Aves
  73

Most recent

• M 4.3 — 2011-09-17
  44 km NNW of Collinsville, Australia
• M 4 — 2011-04-16
  45 km NNW of Collinsville, Australia
• M 5 — 2011-04-16
  Queensland, Australia