Flying Fox, Queensland
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Flying Fox | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Looking across Flying Fox towards Cainbable and Tamborine, 1933 | |||||||||||||
  Flying Fox | |||||||||||||
 Interactive map of Flying Fox | |||||||||||||
| Coordinates: 28°06′07″S 153°10′14″E / 28.1019°S 153.1705°E | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | Queensland | ||||||||||||
| LGA | |||||||||||||
| Location |
| ||||||||||||
| Government | |||||||||||||
| • State electorate | |||||||||||||
| • Federal division | |||||||||||||
| Area | |||||||||||||
• Total | 8.6 km2 (3.3 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||||
| • Total | 61 (2021 census)[1] | ||||||||||||
| • Density | 7.09/km2 (18.37/sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Time zone | UTC+10:00 (AEST) | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 4275 | ||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||
Flying Fox is a rural locality in the Scenic Rim Region, Queensland, Australia.[2] In the 2021 census, Flying Fox had a population of 61 people.[1]
The locality consists of a pair of north-south valleys. The watercourse Flying Fox Creek rises to the south (Beechmont) and flows north through the eastern valley of the locality of Flying Fox exiting to the north (Ferny Glen) where it becomes a tributary of the Coomera River. An unnamed creek also rises to the south (Beechmont) and flows north through the western valley of the locality of Flying Fox where it becomes a tributary of Flying Fox Creek on the locality's northern boundary.[3]
History
Flying Fox State School opened on 21 June 1920 and closed in 1962.[4] It was on the western side of Upper Coomera Road near the Coomera River (approx 28°04′52″S 153°09′22″E / 28.0810°S 153.1561°E), now within the present-day boundaries of neighbouring Ferny Glen.[5][6][3]
