Mount Larcom, Queensland
locality in Queensland, Australia
Mount Larcom is the name of a mountain, a rural town and locality in the Gladstone Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, the locality of Mount Larcom had a population of 332 people.
Geography
The town is in the south-western corner of the locality is at the junction of the Bruce Highway and Gladstone–Mount Larcom Road (State Route 58) approximately 70 kilometres (43 mi) south of the city of Rockhampton.
The mountain, rising to 632 metres (2,073 ft), is 10.8 kilometres (6.7 mi) east of the town in the locality of Targinnie, but is a dominant feature on the horizon, especially from the town of Gladstone.
The locality of Mount Larcom has the following mountains:
Bottle Tree Hill (23.8148°S 150.9702°E / -23.8148; 150.9702 (Bottle Tree Hill)) 120 metres (390 ft)
Curley (23.7873°S 151.0007°E / -23.7873; 151.0007 (Curley)) 264 metres (866 ft)
Limestone Hill (23.7720°S 150.9736°E / -23.7720; 150.9736 (Limestone Hill)) 110 metres (360 ft)
The North Coast railway line enters the locality from the south (East End / Aldoga) and passes through the town which is served by Mount Larcom railway station (23.8078°S 150.9787°E / -23.8078; 150.9787 (Mount Larcom railway station)). The line then forms the south-west boundary of the locality with Machine Creek before exiting to the exits to the west (Ambrose).
History
Commander Matthew Flinders named Mount Larcom (the mountain) on 4 August 1802, after a Royal Navy colleague Captain Thomas Larcom. For most of the colonial period the spelling for the name of the region around the mountain was Mount Larcombe. It reverted to the spelling of Mount Larcom in the early 1900s.
In 1854, the region was made available for pastoral farming by the colonial British Government of New South Wales.
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