Brooweena, Queensland
town in Queensland, Australia
Brooweena is a rural town and locality in the Fraser Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, the locality of Brooweena had a population of 91 people.
Geography
The town is located in the Wide Bay–Burnett area and is 266 kilometres (165 mi) north of the state capital, Brisbane. It is on the Maryborough–Biggenden Road. The north-west of the locality includes a large portion of the Wongi National Park and the Wongi State Forest.
History
The name Brooweena is believed to be an Aboriginal word meaning crab.
The town was established following the arrival of the Mungar Junction to Monto Branch Railway in 1889.
Brooweena Post Office opened on 23 December 1889.
Braemar Provisional School opened on 21 January 1901. It closed in 1922 due to low attendances.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Brooweena, Queensland” as town in Queensland, Australia. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as town in Queensland, Australia. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4975357. Authority coordinates are -25.600, 152.267. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2021, 1889, 1901 and 1922.
Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.
- Historic place names
- Jurisdictional context
- Routes into maps and plans
Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.
Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “Brooweena, Queensland”, its source revision and the description used here.
- Expand the search: follow Brooweena, Queensland primary sources, Brooweena, Queensland archive and Brooweena research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
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- What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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This entry incorporates text from “Brooweena, Queensland” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.