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Mount Gravatt is the name of both a major suburb of , ,
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 ,
and Mount Gravatt S the last being changed to
in the early 1990s. At the 2011 Australian Census the suburb recorded a population of 3,238.
Mount Gravatt hill was named in 1840 after Lieutenant
who was the commander of the
for two months in 1839. Gravatt was later transferred to India where he died in 1843.
Crowd observing the first tram through the suburb in 1951
Between 1953 and 1969 electric
ran from the suburb into Brisbane's
(CBD) along . 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
operated by
and a local bus company the Mount Gravatt Bus Service. The
is connected by a service from Mount Gravatt Central to the Busway terminal at .
The people of greater Mount Gravatt are represented by the State parliamentary seats of Mansfield and Greenslopes and the federal seats of ,
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 ,
(formerly known as Garden City Christian Church).
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: 27.544184? S Longitude:153.076841?).
Lookout kiosk
The suburb is populated by middle class, young families seeking stability. 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%.
has its main campus in the suburb. There is also St Agnes Catholic Primary School, St Catherine's School,
and Mount Gravatt State School.
Mount Gravatt is represented by the
in the . The club were premiers in 2007.
The Mount Gravatt Hawks Soccer Club plays in the .
(31 October 2012). . 2011 Census QuickStats 2013.
Appleton, Richard and Barbara (1992). The Cambridge Dictionary of Australian Places. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press.  .
Timms, Duncan (1975). . CUP Archive. p. 112.   2013.
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Upper Mount Gravatt is a suburb in , to the south of . It has increasingly become an important centre in the last 15 years. In terms of infrastructure,
run through it, in addition to the .
Together with
in the west, , on the north-side, and
in the southeast the suburb has been described as a mini- (CBD). It contains the State Netball Centre, a major
district station and a regional .
Upper Mount Gravatt has long been one of the major centres outside the CBD, especially for those who reside on the south of the city.
, a large shopping centre opened in 1970, is a regional "hub", containing services and popular restaurants, with a bus interchange and the
immediately below it.
Upper Mount Gravatt is also home to the Mount Gravatt Vultures, an Australian Football Club on Klumpp Road. There is also the Hibiscus Sporting Complex and the Mount Gravatt
on the same road.
In the , the population of Upper Mount Gravatt was 8,851, 51.1% female and 48.9% male.
The median age of the Upper Mount Gravatt population was 34 years, 3 years below the Australian median.
59.4% of people living in Upper Mount Gravatt were born in Australia, compared to the national average of 69.8%; the next most common countries of birth were New Zealand 3.3%, China 3.1%, India 2.9%, England 2.7%, Korea, Republic of 1.4%.
67% of people spoke only E the next most common languages were 4.1% Mandarin, 2% Cantonese, 1.4% Korean, 1.4% Arabic, 1.1% Greek.
(31 October 2012). . 2011 Census QuickStats 2014.
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