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Rockhampton

[ rok-hamp-tuhn, -ham- ]

noun

  1. a city in E Queensland, in E Australia.


Rockhampton

/ -ˈhæmtən; rɒkˈhæmptən /

noun

  1. a port in Australia, in E Queensland on the Fitzroy River. Pop: 59 475 (2001)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

They were pleased with the district, and, having settled down on their land, founded what is now the thriving city of Rockhampton.

About twenty-five years ago Mr. Jardine drove a mob of 700 cattle from Rockhampton to this place.

In the same year the Rockhampton Waterworks Act, being the first for a provincial body, was passed.

Gracemere head station is on the south side of the Fitzroy River, and is distant seven miles from Rockhampton.

Mostly shed hands, rouseabouts and suchlike, bound for Rockhampton and Townsville.

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