Rockhampton Attractions

CQ Military and Artefacts Museum (Attraction)
40 Archer Street, Rockhampton, Queensland 4700, Australia

The CQ Military and Artefacts Museum houses artefacts from the military history of Rockhampton and district including American Army uniforms from World War Two and a room devoted entirely to Rockhampton history. So come along with your family and friends and explore the past at this very well presented museum. The attraction includes women at war, personal diaries, war photographs, light horse mem ...

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Kershaw Gardens (Attraction)
Bruce Highway, Rockhampton, Queensland 4701, Australia

Rockhampton's Kershaw Gardens were officially opened in September 1988 as part of a project celebrating the Australian Bicentenary. Initial development of the gardens commenced in 1976, on an old landfill reclamation area. Today, the Gardens represent a natural Australian bush environment, in contrast to the more formal style of traditional Botanic Gardens. These magnificent gardens stretch fo ...

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Koorana Crocodile Farm (Attraction)
65 Savages Road, Rockhampton, Queensland 4702, Australia

Koorana Crocodile Farm is a commercially operated crocodile farm and restaurant located half an hour drive from Rockhampton. Fully guided tours are operated daily at 10.30 a.m. and 1.00 p.m. with crocodile hatchings being seen from March to May. Last entry to farm is 2.00 p.m. and gates close at 3.00 p.m. The restaurant serves crocodile meat dishes as well as standard meals and crocodile skin prod ...

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Mount Archer National Park (Attraction)
Frenchville Road, Rockhampton, Queensland 4702, Australia

With a height of 604 metres, Mt Archer dominates Mt Archer National Park and provides a dramatic backdrop to Rockhampton. The park protects a range of plants and animals, including plant species with restricted distributions, also the glossy black-cockatoo. Named in honour of the Archer brothers who explored the Fitzroy area, it is part of the Darumbal Aboriginal people's traditional country. From ...

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Mount Etna Caves National Park (Attraction)
Mount Etna Caves National Park, Rockhampton, Queensland 4700, Australia

Mount Etna Caves National Park contains some of Australia's most cavernous limestone formations. Protected from fire by the limestone karst, dry rainforest thrives amongst sharp pinnacles and shady crevices. The national park is especiallly important to a number of bat species. 80 per cent of Australia's breeding population of female bent-wing bats use a single cave in the national park for birthi ...

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Mount Hay Gemstone Tourist Park (Attraction)
3665 Capricorn Highway, Wycarbah, Queensland 4702, Australia

Mount Hay Gemstone Tourist Park, 36 kilometres west of Rockhampton on the Capricorn Highway is an internationally known destination for thunderegg fossicking. Thundereggs or 'volcanic birthstones' are crystalline formations that occur when gas bubbles in molten lava solidify on cooling. Mount Hay Gemstone Tourist Park is also a well-known destination for the purchase of semi-precious Australian ge ...

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Rockhampton Art Gallery (Attraction)
62 Victoria Parade, Rockhampton, Queensland 4700, Australia

Rockhampton Art Gallery, with the fine quality of its Australian art collection, frequent exhibitions and busy program of activities, is the hub of Central Queensland's art scene. Selections from the Gallery's nationally renowned collection are regularly on display, including major works by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Grace Cossington Smith, Charles Blackman, Arthur Boyd, John Coburn, Russell Drysdale ...

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Rockhampton Botanic Gardens and Zoo (Attraction)
Spencer Street, Rockhampton, Queensland 4700, Australia

Rockhampton's Botanic Gardens is regarded as one of the best in regional Australia. Excellent specimens of palms, cycads and ferns are found throughout the beautifully manicured grounds. Some specimens are over 100 years old. The Rockhampton Botanic Gardens is a tropical paradise and provides a perfect location for a relaxing afternoon stroll. The Botanic Gardens now caters for weddings, private f ...

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Rockhampton Post Office (Attraction)
East Street, Rockhampton, Queensland 4700, Australia

The Rockhampton Post Office, built in 1895, is a good example of Classic Revival Architecture. The interior has been modified to suit modern requirements and the two street frontages remain as originally constructed. Key features of the building are the magnificent colonnades on both levels. There's even a central clock tower that has watched over 100 years of history pass by it. Rockhampton ...

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The Spire Tropic of Capricorn (Attraction)
Gladstone Road, Rockhampton, Queensland 4700, Australia

The Tropic of Capricorn is the extreme southern position of the sun in apparent annual journey, (it's northern most position is the Tropic of Cancer). As the earth tilts on its axis, the sun appears to move in an orbit inclined 23 and a half degrees to the plane of the Earth's Equator. It reaches its southern position, the Summer Solstice on about 21 December each year and its opposite, th ...

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Zamia Walk (Attraction)
Mount Archer National Park, Rockhampton, Queensland 4700, Australia

The local Darumbal Aboriginal people have issued a special welcome to walkers to enjoy their time in Mount Archer National Park and there is so much to see and experience. Practical advice offered by local walkers is to drive to the lookout atop of Mount Archer and walk the downward slope - your legs will thank you after you have finished the five-hour, 14 kilometre one way adventure. Moun ...

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