Description
Wongawallan is a rural locality in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
Wongawallan is a rural locality in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. In the 2016 census Wongawallan had a population of 1,273 people.
History
The area was originally named Mount Goulburn after Henry Goulburn by surveyor Dixon. However, later it was renamed Wongawallan, believed to be an Aboriginal word where wonga means pigeon and walla means water.However, it has been claimed that it was named after an Aboriginal man nicknamed "Peter" who killed John Wilkinson, a settler, at Wongawallan Creek in 1876., but contemporaneous newspaper reports of the death of Wilkinson only refer to the Aboriginal man as "Peter".In the 2011 census, Wongawallan had a population of 1,103 people.In the 2016 census Wongawallan had a population of 1,273 people.
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Population: 1,001 - 10,000
Time zone: UTC +10:00
Area: 32.792 km2
Elevation: 51 to 200 metres
Town elevation: 87 m
Population number: 1,273
Local Government Area: City of Gold Coast