Kanigan, Queensland

Kanigan Queensland
Kanigan
Coordinates	25°55′40″S152°35′10″E / 25.9277°S 152.5861°E / -25.9277; 152.5861
Population	143 (2021 census) [1]
• Density	6.41/km2 (16.61/sq mi)
Postcode(s)	4570
Area	22.3 km2 (8.6 sq mi)
LGA(s)	Fraser Coast Region Gympie Region
State electorate(s)	Gympie
Federal division(s)	Wide Bay
Suburbs around Kanigan: Gootchie Gootchie Glenwood Theebine Kanigan Glenwood Theebine Gunalda Glenwood

Kanigan (pronounced kan-i-an)^{[ citation needed ]} is a rural locality split between the Fraser Coast Region and the Gympie Region, both in Queensland, Australia. ^{[2] [3]} In the 2021 census, Kanigan had a population of 143 people. ^[1]

Geography

Kanyan Road forms the northern boundary of the locality.

Deacons Creek rises in the southern part of the locality and flows through to the north-east, where it exits.

Mount Kanigan is in the north-west of the locality. ^[4]

Mount Kanigan Nature Refuge is a .2 square kilometres (0.077  sq mi ) private nature reserve on Repeater Station Road. ^[5]

The Bruce Highway runs along the eastern boundary.

The 128 km Gympie (Mt Kanigan) Radar Loop in the south west of the locality is a doppler radar station that is part of the National Radar Loop of the Bureau of Meteorology. ^[6]

History

Kanyan railway station is in the adjacent locality of Theebine. The name of this station was changed to Kanigan in July 1945 and changed back to Kanyan in December the same year. ^{[7] [8]} In 1881 when the Maryborough to Gympie railway opened the station was described as "in the middle of a dense weedy pine scrub, known ... as Ramsay's, where there is nothing but a few tents and perhaps a truck or so of palings to indicate that the spot is a railway station named Kanyan. [It] .. derives its title from the aboriginal name ' Kanyn' given to the creek and mountain close by. ^[9]

Another version of the word Kanyan is that it is derived from the Aboriginal word, Kabi language, kanigan indicating daughter. ^[10]

Kannagan Provisional School opened on 6 July 1896. By 1898 the spelling of the name had changed to be Kanighan Provisional School. On 1 January 1909, it became Kanighan State School. About 1946, the spelling changed to Kanigan State School. It closed in 1959. ^[11] It was on the western corner of the junction of Kanyan Road and the Bruce Highway (approx 25°54′15″S152°35′53″E / 25.9042°S 152.5981°E / -25.9042; 152.5981 (Kanigan State School (former)) ), now within the present-day boundaries of Gootchie. ^{[12] [13]}

Demographics

In the 2016 census Kanigan had a population of 114 people. ^[14]

In the 2021 census, Kanigan had a population of 143 people. ^[1]

References

1. Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Kanigan (SAL)". 2021 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
2. "Kanigan – locality in Fraser Coast Region (entry 46741)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government . Retrieved 29 December 2017.
3. "Kanigan – locality in Gympie Region (entry 46412)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government . Retrieved 29 December 2017.
4. Google (20 August 2021). "Kanigan, Queensland" (Map). Google Maps . Google. Retrieved 20 August 2021.
5. Department of Environment and Science, Queensland (2013). "Mount Kanigan Nature Refuge — facts and maps". wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
6. "128 km Gympie (Mt Kanigan) Radar Loop". Bureau of Meteorology . October 2022. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
7. "GENERAL NEWS". Maryborough Chronicle, Wide Bay and Burnett Advertiser . No. 22, 874. Queensland, Australia. 5 July 1945. p. 2. Retrieved 29 October 2022– via National Library of Australia.
8. "KANYAN RAILWAY STATION". Maryborough Chronicle, Wide Bay and Burnett Advertiser . No. 23, 014. Queensland, Australia. 15 December 1945. p. 4. Retrieved 29 October 2022– via National Library of Australia.
9. "SUGAR INDUSTRY AT MIVA". Maryborough Chronicle, Wide Bay and Burnett Advertiser . No. 2, 673. Queensland, Australia. 8 October 1881. p. 2. Retrieved 29 October 2022– via National Library of Australia.
10. "Kanyan (entry 17714)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government . Retrieved 29 October 2022.
11. Queensland Family History Society (2010), Queensland schools past and present (Version 1.01 ed.), Queensland Family History Society, ISBN   978-1-921171-26-0
12. "Queensland Two Mile series sheet 2m110" (Map). Queensland Government. 1941. Retrieved 13 September 2023.
13. "Queensland Globe". State of Queensland . Retrieved 13 September 2023.
14. Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Kanigan (SSC)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 20 October 2018.