Place:Seventeen Mile Rocks, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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NameSeventeen Mile Rocks
Typeinhabited place
Coordinates27.547222°S 152.954444°E
Located inBrisbane, Queensland, Australia
source: Family History Library Catalog

Name and boundaries approved by Queensland Place Names Board 11 August 1975. Boundaries adjusted by the Minister for Natural Resources and Mines and Minister Assisting the Premier on Water, 11 August 2006. Boundary altered by the Minister for Natural Resources and Water on 7 March 2008. Derived from rock bar across the Brisbane River, approximately seventeen miles upstream of the settlement, name used from 1840s. Soorce : The State of Queensland (Department of Environment and Resource Management) 2010.

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