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ref_no: 46080
place_name: Pimpama
alt_name: null
type: SUB
description: Suburb
status: Y
currency: Y
gazetted_date: 1259280000000
gazette_page: 919.0
plan_no: QPN1057
modified_date: 1551182731000
lga_name: Gold Coast City
comments:
longitude: 153° 19' 04" E
latitude: 27° 48' 58" S
longitude_dd: 153.31778
latitude_dd: -27.81611
origin: Pimpama is reportedly derived from Bundjalung language, Yugumbir dialect, pim pim ba or bim bim ba, indicating place of Soldier (Mickey) birds. Refer F.J. Watson. Vocabularies of four representative tribes of South Eastern Queensland. Brisbane, 1944, p.109. The name Pimpama was originally given to a mustering station owned by Hon. W.D.White in L.C. of Beaudesert. In 1869 this station sold off and one of the employees, John Watkins, took charge of the Post Office near Hotham Creek. This Post Office was established as part of the first mail coach route from Brisbane. The township which then grew here and of which Mr. Watkins may be called the founder, took on the name of Pimpama.
history: Named and bounded as a locality by Queensland Place Names Board 31 March 1979. Boundaries amended by Governor in Council 24 February 1995 to incorporate part of omitted Yawalpah. Boundaries amended and changed to Suburb status by the Minister for Natural Resources and Minister for Mines, 7 February 2003. Coordinates amended by the Minister for Natural Resources and Minister for Mines 13 June 2003. Regazetted by the Minister for Natural Resources, Mines and Energy and Minister for Trade on the 27 November 2009 due to the council amalgamations under the Local Government Reform Implementation Act 2007.
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X: 153.31778000000008
Y: -27.81610999999998