Wangan

History

Mundoo Provisional School opened on 5 August 1895. It became Mundoo State School on 1 January 1909. St Paul's Catholic Church was built in 1956 from timber. It later closed. It was in Meyer Street (approx ).

Geography

The locality is bounded to the north-west by the south branch of Bamboo Creek and to the south-east by Scheu Creek. The town is central within the locality. Outside of the town, the land is used for crop-growing, predominately sugarcane. There is a network of cane tramways through the locality for transporting the harvested sugarcane to the South Johnstone sugar mill. The Currajah railway siding () in on this network.

Most-observed species

• Southern Cassowary

  Casuarius casuarius (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  1,238
• Masked Lapwing

  Vanellus miles (Boddaert, 1783) · Aves
  797
• Australasian Figbird

  Sphecotheres vieilloti Vigors & Horsfield, 1827 · Aves
  771
• Metallic Starling

  Aplonis metallica (Temminck, 1824) · Aves
  711
• Artamus leucorhynchos

  Artamus leucorhynchos · Aves
  700
• Magpie-lark

  Grallina cyanoleuca (Latham, 1802) · Aves
  651
• Common Myna

  Acridotheres tristis (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  600
• Spotted Dove

  Spilopelia chinensis (Scopoli, 1786) · Aves
  555

Most recent

• M 3.6 — 2011-03-15
  30 km NE of Innisfail Estate, Australia