Roma, Queensland
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Roma is a rural town and locality in the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia. It is the administrative centre of the Maranoa Region. The town was incorporated in 1867 and is named after Lady Diamantina Bowen, the wife of Sir George Bowen, the Governor of Queensland at the time. In the 2021 census, the locality of Roma had a population of 6,838 people.
Aerial view of Roma
Sign on the Warrego Highway at the eastern entrance to Roma
Steam locomotive 'Pioneer' on the Western Railway construction site between Roma and Mitchell, ca. 1885
Apparatus for separating natural gas from artesian water at the Roma Gas Works
Mitchell, Queensland
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Mitchell is a rural town and locality in the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia. The town services the local area, a cattle and sheep farming district. In the 2021 census, the locality of Mitchell had a population of 995 people.
Looking downstream on the Maranoa River on the eastern side of Mitchell
Warrego Highway crossing the Maranoa.
Sign on the Warrego Highway at the western entrance to Mitchell
Centenary memorial erected in 1946 at Mitchell, Queensland to commemorate explorer Thomas Mitchell's naming of the nearby Maranoa River.