Rockhampton
Australia's beef capital – Rockhampton – is a city that lies on the tropic of Capricorn near the Central Queensland coast, south of Mackay and north of Bundaberg.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 63,200 residents
- Description: city in Queensland, Australia
- Also known as: “Rockhampton City”, “Rockhampton, QLD”, and “Rockhampton, Queensland”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Archer Park Rail Museum and Kershaw Gardens.
Archer Park Rail Museum
Museum
Photo: Joninbrisbane, CC BY 3.0.
Archer Park Railway Museum is a heritage-listed former railway station and now transport museum at Denison Street, Rockhampton, Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia.
Kershaw Gardens
Park
Kershaw Gardens is a 50-hectare park situated on an old landfill site in the Rockhampton suburb of Park Avenue in Queensland, Australia. Officially opened in 1988, the parklands are bordered by the Bruce Highway, High Street, Dowling Street and Moores Creek, which flows through the gardens on the eastern boundary, and into the Fitzroy River.
Rockhampton
- Category: locality
- Location: Rockhampton, Central Queensland, Queensland, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-23.3782° or 23° 22′ 42″ southLongitude
150.5134° or 150° 30′ 48″ eastPopulation
63,200Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)IATA airport code
ROKUnited Nations Location Code
AU ROKOpen location code
5R8GJGC7+P9OpenStreetMap ID
node 2014326094OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2151437Wikidata ID
Q606162
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Rockhampton” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “روكامبتون”
- Arabic: “روكهامبتون”
- Armenian: “Ռոքհեմփթոն”
- Asturian: “Rockhampton”
- Basque: “Rockhampton”
- Belarusian: “Ракгемптан”
- Bengali: “রোকাম্পটন”
- Catalan: “Rockhampton”
- Cebuano: “Rockhampton”
- Central Kurdish: “ڕاکھەمپتن”
- Chinese: “洛坎普頓”
- Chinese: “洛坎普顿”
- Chinese: “罗克汉普顿”
- Czech: “Rockhampton”
- Danish: “Rockhampton”
- Dutch: “Rockhampton”
- Egyptian Arabic: “روكهامبتون”
- Esperanto: “Rockhampton”
- Estonian: “Rockhampton”
- Finnish: “Rockhampton”
- French: “Rockhampton”
- Georgian: “როკჰემპტონი”
- German: “Rockhampton”
- Greek: “Ρόκχάμπτον”
- Gujarati: “રોકહેમ્પટન”
- Hebrew: “רוקהאמפטון, קווינסלנד”
- Hebrew: “רוקהאמפטון”
- Hindi: “रॉकहैम्पटन”
- Hungarian: “Rockhampton”
- Indonesian: “Rockhampton”
- Irish: “Rockhampton”
- Italian: “Rockhampton”
- Japanese: “ロック・ハンプトン”
- Japanese: “ロックハンプトン”
- Japanese: “ロックハンプトン市”
- Kannada: “ರಾಕ್ಹ್ಯಾಂಪ್ಟನ್”
- Korean: “록햄프턴”
- Latvian: “Rokhemptona”
- Lithuanian: “Rokhamptonas”
- Lithuanian: “Rokhemptonas”
- Malagasy: “Rockhampton”
- Malay: “Rockhampton”
- Marathi: “रॉकहॅम्पटन”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Rockhampton”
- Norwegian: “Rockhampton”
- Persian: “راکهمپتون”
- Polish: “Rockhampton”
- Romanian: “Rockhampton, Queensland”
- Romanian: “Rockhampton”
- Russian: “Рокгемптон”
- Russian: “Рокхемптон”
- Sanskrit: “रोकहाम्पटन”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Rockhampton”
- Serbian: “Рокхемптон”
- Silesian: “Rockhampton”
- Sinhala: “රොක්හැම්ප්ටන්”
- Slovenian: “Rockhampton”
- South Azerbaijani: “راکهمپتون”
- Spanish: “Rockhampton (Queensland)”
- Spanish: “Rockhampton”
- Swedish: “Rockhampton, Queensland”
- Swedish: “Rockhampton”
- Tamil: “றோக்கம்ப்பிதோன்”
- Telugu: “రోక్ఖాంప్టొన్”
- Thai: “ร็อกแฮมตัน”
- Turkish: “Rockhampton”
- Ukrainian: “Рокгемптон”
- Urdu: “راکہیمپٹن”
- Vietnamese: “Rockhampton”
- Welsh: “Rockhampton, Queensland”
- Welsh: “Rockhampton”
- Western Panjabi: “راکہیمپٹون”
- Wu Chinese: “洛坎普顿”
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