Highgate Hill
Highgate Hill is a riverside inner southern suburb of the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, Highgate Hill had a population of 6,229 people.Photo: Lilywatanabe, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: Suburb with 6,080 residents
- Description: suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Also known as: “Highgate Hill, Queensland” and “Highgate Hill, Queensland, Australia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Torbreck and Kurilpa Library.
Torbreck
Apartment building
Photo: Brisbane City Council, CC BY 2.0.
Torbreck, or the Torbreck Home Units, was the first high-rise and mix-use residential development in Queensland, Australia. These heritage-listed home units are located at 182 Dornoch Terrace, Highgate Hill, Brisbane.
Kurilpa Library
Library
Photo: Chrismo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kurilpa Library is a heritage-listed library at 178 Boundary Street, West End, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was built in 1929 and added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 5 February 2007.
HMAS Diamantina
Photo: Nick-D, CC BY-SA 3.0.
HMAS Diamantina, named after the Diamantina River in Queensland, is a River-class frigate that served the Royal Australian Navy. Constructed in the mid-1940s, Diamantina was active from 1945 until 1946, was placed in reserve, then was recommissioned as a survey ship from 1959 until 1980.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include West End and Clarence Corner.
West End
Suburb
Photo: Misaochan2, CC BY 4.0.
West End is an inner southern suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, West End had a population of 14,730 people. The Aboriginal name for the area is Kurilpa, which means place of the water rat.
Clarence Corner
Neighborhood
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Clarence Corner is the junction of Stanley Street and Annerley Road in Woolloongabba/South Brisbane in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It gives its name to the local area.
South Bank
Neighborhood
Photo: willislim, CC BY-SA 2.0.
South Bank is a cultural, social, educational and recreational precinct in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The precinct is located in the suburb of South Brisbane, on the southern bank of the Brisbane River.
Highgate Hill
- Category: locality
- Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-27.48767° or 27° 29′ 16″ southLongitude
153.01758° or 153° 1′ 3″ eastPopulation
6,080Elevation
52 metres (171 feet)Open location code
5R4MG269+W2OpenStreetMap ID
node 1763705533OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
6943567Wikidata ID
Q5758555
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Urdu—“Highgate Hill” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “海格特希尔”
- Chinese: “高门山”
- French: “Highgate Hill”
- Spanish: “Highgate Hill (Queensland)”
- Spanish: “Highgate Hill”
- Urdu: “ہائی گیٹ ہل، کوئنز لینڈ”
- Urdu: “ہائی گیٹ ہل، کوئنزلینڈ”
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