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
Diamantina Bowen
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Diamantina, Lady Bowen, was a noble from the formerly Venetian Ionian Islands who became the wife of Sir George Bowen, the first Governor of Queensland.
The Lady Bowen
Statue of Lady Diamantina Bowen, beside Old Government House, Brisbane, 2013