Peak Vale, Queensland
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| Coordinates: 23°06′21″S 147°08′53″E / 23.1058°S 147.1480°E | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | Queensland | ||||||||||||
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• Total | 816.8 km2 (315.4 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
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| • Total | 39 (2016 census)[1] | ||||||||||||
| • Density | 0.0477/km2 (0.1237/sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Time zone | UTC+10:00 (AEST) | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 4721 | ||||||||||||
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Peak Vale is a rural locality split between the Isaac Region and the Central Highlands Region, Queensland, Australia.[2][3] In the 2016 census, Peak Vale had a population of 39 people, but its boundaries were altered subsequently and its population was not separately reported in the 2021 census.
The locality is bounded to the west by the Drummond Range.[4]
There are a number of named peaks in the locality (from north to south):
- Chinaman Peak (23°13′03″S 147°17′56″E / 23.2174°S 147.2988°E) 539 metres (1,768 ft)[5][6]
- Mount Zig Zag (23°18′49″S 147°20′22″E / 23.3135°S 147.3395°E) 540 metres (1,770 ft)[5][7]
- Mount Tabletop (23°27′53″S 147°16′22″E / 23.4646°S 147.2729°E) 520 metres (1,710 ft)[5][8]
The Carbine State Forest is in the north of the locality. Apart from that protected area, the land use is predominantly grazing on native vegetation in most of the locality, but in the southern more mountainous part of the locality, there is no active land use.[4]
History
On 17 May 2019, it was decided to discontinue the locality of Mistake Creek and absorb its land into the neighbouring localities of Clermont, Laglan, Frankfield and Peak Vale and to extend Peak Vale into the Central Highlands Region by altering the boundaries of Argyll.[9][10][11][4]
