Park Avenue, Queensland

Park Avenue is a suburb of Rockhampton in the Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia.[2]

Park Avenue
Rockhampton, Queensland
Passengers on the Park Avenue route bus, 1930
Park Avenue
Coordinates23°21′24″S 150°30′41″E
Population5,094 (2016 census)[1]
Postcode(s)4701
Elevation10 m (33 ft)
Location
LGA(s)Rockhampton Region
State electorate(s)Rockhampton
Federal Division(s)Capricornia
Suburbs around Park Avenue:
Kawana Kawana Norman Gardens
Kawana Park Avenue Frenchville
Wandal Rockhampton City Berserker

Geography
Park Avenue Licensed Post Office at the Park Avenue Mall in Main Street

Park Avenue is bounded on the south-west by the Fitzroy River, which divides Rockhampton from North Rockhampton. The Neville Hewitt Bridge crosses the river from Rockhampton City to the south-west to Park Avenue, which carries the Bruce Highway through Rockhampton towards the north.[3]

The Alexandra Railway Bridge also crosses from the CBD to Park Avenue, carrying the North Coast line from Rockhampton railway station south of the river to Park Avenue where it proceeds north through Park Avenue to Kawana. Park Avenue is served by two railway stations, Park Avenue railway station in the centre of the suburb and Glenmore Junction railway station in the south of the suburb and. The Yeppoon railway line separates from the North Coast line immediately south of Glenmore Junction, travelling south-east into Berserker.[3]

The suburb is predominantly residential with an industrial area in the south and another in the north-west. Stockland Rockhampton is a major shopping centre in the eastern corner of the suburb. There is also commercial strip along Yaamba Road, the north-eastern boundary of the suburb.[3]

Kershaw Gardens and the Tom Nutley Field are along the south-western edge of the suburb with Queen's Park on the southern tip of the suburb, beside the Fitzroy River and the Neville Hewitt Bridge.

History

Park Avenue State School, a co-educational public primary school, opened on 7 October 1901.[4][5]

St Joseph's Catholic Primary School opened on 28 January 1929.[4][5]

St Stanislaus College, a Catholic boys secondary school, opened in 1958 and Marian College, a Catholic girls secondary school, opened in 1964. These schools merged to form Emmaus College, a co-educational Catholic secondary school, opening on 1 February 1983.[4][5]

In the 2011 census, Park Avenue had a population of 5,366 people.[6]

Big Bulls

On the median strip of the Bruce Highway on the border of Park Avenue and Norman Gardens is one of the seven Big Bulls statues that decorate Rockhampton, which regards itself as the Beef Capital of Australia.[7][8] The Big Bulls are listed as one of Australia's big things.[9]

References
  1. Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Park Avenue (State Suburb)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 18 April 2018.
  2. "Park Avenus (entry 48828)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 17 September 2016.
  3. "Queensland Globe". State of Queensland. Retrieved 17 September 2016.
  4. Queensland Family History Society (2010), Queensland schools past and present (Version 1.01 ed.), Queensland Family History Society, ISBN 978-1-921171-26-0
  5. "Opening and closing dates of Queensland Schools". Queensland Government. Retrieved 17 September 2016.
  6. Australian Bureau of Statistics (31 October 2012). "Park Avenue". 2011 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 17 September 2016.
  7. "Where's the Beef?". Rockhampton Art Gallery. Archived from the original on 5 August 2017. Retrieved 5 August 2017.
  8. Robinson, Paul; Farrow-Smith, Elloise; Saunders, Miranda (17 April 2014). "An ownership row has erupted over who holds Australia's Beef Capital title". ABC News. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on 5 August 2017. Retrieved 5 August 2017.
  9. Clark, David (2004). Big Things: Australia's Amazing Roadside Attractions. Penguin Books. pp. 10–13. ISBN 0-14-300200-7.

Further reading

Media related to Park Avenue, Queensland at Wikimedia Commons

  • "Park Avenue". Queensland Places. Centre for the Government of Queensland, University of Queensland.
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