Kippa-Ring, Queensland

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Kippa-Ring
Queensland

Map showing Kippa-Ring in Redcliffe City
Established: 27 March 1971
Postcode: 4021
Elevation: 6 m (20 ft)
Property Value: AUD $312,500[1]
Location:
LGA: Moreton Bay Regional Council
Region: Brisbane
State District: Murrumba, Redcliffe
Federal Division: Petrie
Mean Max Temp Mean Min Temp Rainfall
25.1 °C
77 °F		 16.5 °C
62 °F		 1,094.1 mm
43.1 in
Suburbs around Kippa-Ring:
Rothwell Scarborough Scarborough
Rothwell Kippa-Ring Redcliffe
Hayes Inlet Clontarf Margate

Kippa-Ring is a suburb of Redcliffe, Queensland, Queensland, Australia. Its Local Government Area is the Moreton Bay Regional Council.

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[edit] History

The suburb's curious name is a combination of the Kabi indigenous word "kippa", meaning young uninitiated man, and ring, a reference to a bora ring.[2]

[edit] Attractions and features

Kippa-Ring is home to the Peninsula Fair Shopping Centre, as well as Kippa-Ring Village shopping centre, both of which are side by side. Peninsula Fair houses one of the first Kmart stores in Queensland and the only multiplex cinemas on the Redcliffe peninsula, the Australian Multiplex Cinemas with eight screens.

Kippa-Ring is also home of the Redcliffe Airport.

One infamous feature of Kippa-Ring is its location as the terminus of the much-promised QR Citytrain train line to Redcliffe. Instead, the cheaper alternative of improving existing bus services, and the addition of a T2 lane on most of busy Anzac Avenue from Kippa-Ring to Rothwell, had been chosen.

[edit] Education

Educational institutions within Kippa-Ring are Hercules Road State School with just over 820 enrollments,[3] Kippa-Ring State School with more than 500 enrollments.[4], and Southern Cross Catholic College's Holy Cross primary campus.

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Property – What your house is worth (liftout)", Real Estate Institute of Queensland median house prices, The Sunday Mail, 2007-09-09, pp. 7. 
  2. ^ Kippa-Ring (HTML). Place Names Online Search. Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Water.
  3. ^ Hercules Road State School (SS) : Primary Enrolments (HTML). Queensland Government Department of Education, Training and the Arts. Retrieved on 2007-07-27.
  4. ^ Kippa-Ring State School (SS) : Primary Enrolments (HTML). Queensland Government Department of Education, Training and the Arts. Retrieved on 2007-07-27.

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