Mount Gravatt, Queensland

Mount Gravatt is the name of both a major suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia and a prominent hill in this suburb. The suburb is situated in the south-east of the city and was one of Brisbane's largest. This was before it was divided into Mount Gravatt East, Upper Mount Gravatt and Mount Gravatt South; the last being changed to Wishart in the early 1990s. At the 2011 Australian Census the suburb recorded a population of 3,238.^[1]

Mount Gravatt hill was named in 1840 after Lieutenant George Gravatt who was the commander of the Moreton Bay Settlement for two months in 1839. Gravatt was later transferred to India where he died in 1843.^[2]

Crowd observing the first tram through the suburb in 1951

Between 1953 and 1969 electric trams ran from the suburb into Brisbane's Central Business District (CBD) along Logan Road. As Mount Gravatt was the end of the line, part of the area was known locally as "The Terminus". Since then public transport has been provided by buses operated by Brisbane Transport and a local bus company the Mount Gravatt Bus Service. The South East Busway is connected by a service from Mount Gravatt Central to the Busway terminal at Griffith University.

The people of greater Mount Gravatt are represented by the State parliamentary seats of Mansfield and Greenslopes and the federal seats of Bonner, Griffith and Moreton.

The Mount Gravatt Showgrounds are an important centre for cultural and community activities and the site of the annual Mount Gravatt Show, an agricultural fair. The grounds are positioned on Logan Road, opposite the mega-church, Hillsong Brisbane Campus (formerly known as Garden City Christian Church).

Lookout

Panorama from Mount Gravatt, looking north to Brisbane

Mount Gravatt Lookout is accessible via Shire Road which winds its way past water towers up to the lookout carpark and a communications tower. Furthermore, there is a large cave complex located at on a walking trail on the southern slope of the mountain (Latitude: 27.544184º S Longitude:153.076841º).

Demographics

Lookout kiosk

The suburb is populated by middle class, young families seeking stability.^[3] Mount Gravatt was once a popular destination of German, Irish and English Immigrants to Australia after World war 1 and 2. The suburb has a growing number of Southern Europeans (mostly from Greece and Italy).

In Mount Gravatt common birthplaces outside of Australia included New Zealand 3.2%, England 3.1%, India 2.1%, China (excludes SARs and Taiwan) 1.0% and South Africa 1.0%.

Languages other than English spoken at home included Arabic 1.1%, Mandarin 1.0%, Punjabi 1.0%, Greek 0.7% and Italian 0.7%.^[4]

Education

Griffith University has its main campus in the suburb. There is also St Agnes Catholic Primary School, St Catherine's School, Mount Gravatt State High School and Mount Gravatt State School.

Sport

Mount Gravatt is represented by the Mount Gravatt Australian Rules Football Club in the Queensland State League. The club were premiers in 2007.
The Mount Gravatt Hawks Soccer Club plays in the Brisbane Premier League.

References

1 2 Australian Bureau of Statistics (31 October 2012). "Mount Gravatt (State Suburb)". 2011 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 20 October 2013.
↑ Appleton, Richard and Barbara (1992). The Cambridge Dictionary of Australian Places. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-39506-2.
↑ Timms, Duncan (1975). The Urban Mosaic: Towards a Theory of Residential Differentiation. CUP Archive. p. 112. ISBN 0521099889. Retrieved 20 October 2013.
↑ QuickStats: Mount Gravatt (State Suburb)

External links

University of Queensland: Queensland Places: Mount Gravatt and Mount Gravatt East

Coordinates: 27°32′24″S 153°04′05″E / 27.54°S 153.068°E / -27.54; 153.068

Suburbs of the City of Brisbane, Queensland

North side	Albion Alderley Ascot Aspley Bald Hills Banyo Boondall Bowen Hills Bracken Ridge Bridgeman Downs Brighton Brisbane Airport Brisbane CBD Carseldine Chermside Chermside West Clayfield Deagon Eagle Farm England Creek Enoggera Everton Park Ferny Grove Fitzgibbon Fortitude Valley Gaythorne Geebung Gordon Park Grange Hamilton Hendra Herston Kedron Kelvin Grove Keperra Lutwyche McDowall Mitchelton New Farm Newmarket Newstead Northgate Nudgee Nudgee Beach Nundah Pinkenba Sandgate Shorncliffe Spring Hill Stafford Stafford Heights Taigum Teneriffe Upper Kedron Virginia Wavell Heights Wilston Windsor Wooloowin Zillmere

West side	Anstead Ashgrove Auchenflower Banks Creek Bardon Bellbowrie Brookfield Carole Park Chapel Hill Chelmer Chuwar Corinda Darra Doolandella Durack Ellen Grove Enoggera Reservoir Fig Tree Pocket Forest Lake Graceville Heathwood Inala Indooroopilly Jamboree Heights Jindalee Karana Downs Kenmore Kenmore Hills Kholo Lake Manchester Middle Park Milton Moggill Mount Coot-tha Mount Crosby Mount Ommaney Oxley Pallara Paddington Petrie Terrace Pinjarra Hills Pullenvale Red Hill Richlands Riverhills St Lucia Seventeen Mile Rocks Sherwood Sinnamon Park Sumner Taringa The Gap Toowong Upper Brookfield Wacol Westlake Willawong

South side	Acacia Ridge Algester Annerley Archerfield Berrinba Burbank Calamvale Coopers Plains Drewvale Dutton Park Eight Mile Plains Fairfield Greenslopes Highgate Hill Holland Park Holland Park West Karawatha Kuraby Larapinta Macgregor Mackenzie Mansfield Moorooka Mount Gravatt Mount Gravatt East Nathan Parkinson Robertson Rochedale Rocklea Runcorn Salisbury South Brisbane Stretton Sunnybank Sunnybank Hills Tarragindi Tennyson Upper Mount Gravatt West End Wishart Woolloongabba Yeerongpilly Yeronga

East side	Balmoral Belmont Bulimba Camp Hill Cannon Hill Capalaba West (defunct) Carina Carina Heights Carindale Chandler Coorparoo East Brisbane Gumdale Hawthorne Hemmant Kangaroo Point Lota Lytton Manly Manly West Morningside Murarrie Norman Park Port of Brisbane Ransome Seven Hills Tingalpa Wakerley Wynnum Wynnum West

Moreton Bay	Bulwer Cowan Cowan Kooringal Moreton Island

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