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Gladstone
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city in Queensland, Australia
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Place details
- Locality
- Gladstone
- Region
- Queensland
- Country
- Australia
- Population
- 45,185
- Timezone
- Australia/Brisbane
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Country
- Australia
- State
- Queensland
- Lga
- Gladstone Region
- Location
- 108 km (67 mi) SE of Rockhampton 186 km (116 mi) NW of Bundaberg 517 km (321 mi) NNW of Brisbane
- State electorate
- Gladstone
- Federal division
- Flynn
- Total
- 45,185 ( 2021 census )
- Time zone
- UTC+10:00 ( AEST )
- Mean max temp
- 27.7 °C (81.9 °F)
- Mean min temp
- 18.5 °C (65.3 °F)
- Annual rainfall
- 880.0 mm (34.65 in)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Named after
- William Ewart Gladstone
- Country
- Australia
- Located in
- Gladstone Region
- Population
- 34703
- Elevation
- 21
- Time zone
- UTC+10:00
- Body of water
- Coral Sea
- Capital of
- Gladstone Region
- Image
- GladstoneHarbourEastShores.jpg
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- Commons category
- Gladstone, Queensland
- twinned administrative body
- Saiki
- maximum temperature record
- 42.0
- minimum temperature record
- 3.5
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- P12749
- North Sumatra
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Gladstone (/ˈɡlædstən/ GLAD-stən) is a coastal city in the Gladstone Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, the Gladstone urban area had a population of 45,185 people.
It is 517 km (321 mi) by road north-west of the state capital, Brisbane, and 108 km (67 mi) south-east of Rockhampton. Situated between the Calliope and Boyne Rivers, Gladstone is home to Queensland's largest multi-commodity shipping port, the Port of Gladstone.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gladstone” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.