Paluma

History

The area was originally known as Cloudy Clearing until it was renamed Paluma in 1934. It was at 28 Furber Road (also known as Breakaway Road and Ewan Road, ); it was a site with a frontage onto Running River. Paluma Temporary School opened on 28 September 1950, becoming Paluma State School in 1952. The school closed on 19 July 1968 due to falling enrolments. The Paluma Environmental Education Centre was established in 1977 by the Queensland Department of Education on the site of Paluma State School.

Geography

The town of Paluma is in the east of the locality in the of the locality within the City of Townsville. The residential land use is mostly within the town.The remaining to the west in the Charters Towers Region has a mix of uses including grazing on native vegetation, the Paluma Range National Park, the Paluma State Forest, and the Mount Zero Taravale Private Nature Reserve (operated by the Australian Wildlife Conservancy). The now-closed Greenvale railway line passed through the locality which was served by the now-abandoned Girrinjah railway station (). Paluma has the following mountains: * Black Hill () * Krugers Hill () * Mount Bitalli () * Mount Bradley () * Mount Brown () * Mount Foxton () * Mount Julia () * Mount Moss () * Mount Nokomis () * Mount Podge () * Mount Ryan () * Mount Spectacle () * Mount Zero () * Pinnacle () * Powell Knob () * Snake Hill ()

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• M 4.1 — 2025-03-01
  0 km SE of Kelso, Australia