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Buderim
Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Postcode: 4556
Property Value: AUD $435,000[1]
Location: 92 km (57 mi) from Brisbane
LGA: Sunshine Coast
State District: Maroochydore
Federal Division: Fairfax
Suburbs around Buderim:
Kunda Park Kuluin Alexandra Headland
Forest Glen Buderim Mooloolaba
Tanawha Sippy Downs Mountain Creek

Buderim (26°41′S, 153°04′E) is a mountain town in the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia about an hour's drive north of Brisbane. The Sunshine Coast (population 290645 with up to an additional 50000 in visitors and seasonal workers is a coastal region located in South East Queensland, north of the Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern corner of the mainland continent Postcodes are used in Australia for the purposes of sorting and directing Mail. The Australian dollar ( sign: $; code: AUD) is the Currency of the Commonwealth of Australia, including Christmas The kilometre ( American spelling: kilometer) symbol km is a unit of Length in the Metric system, equal to one thousand A mile is a unit of Length, usually used to measure Distance, in a number of different systems including Imperial units United States Brisbane ( is the state capital of Queensland. Brisbane is the third most populous city in Australia and the most populous city of Queensland The Local Government Areas (LGAs of Queensland, Australia are the areas for which particular Local Government authorities generally known as "Councils" Sunshine Coast Regional Council is a Local Government Area in Queensland, Australia. State Electoral District is a term used to refer to an electorate within the Lower House or Legislative Maroochydore is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. The Australian House of Representatives is elected from 150 single-member districts called Divisions. The Division of Fairfax is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland. Kunda Park is an industrial suburb in the Sunshine Coast region of Queensland, Australia. Kuluin is a suburb in the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia Alexandra Headland is a seaside locality in the Sunshine Coast region in Queensland, Australia. Forest Glen is a suburb in the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia. Mooloolaba is a tourist resort township in the centre of the Sunshine Coast, in Queensland, Australia, 100 km north of Brisbane. Tanawha is a suburb in the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia. Sippy Downs is a suburb on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia. Mountain Creek is a suburb on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia. The Sunshine Coast (population 290645 with up to an additional 50000 in visitors and seasonal workers is a coastal region located in South East Queensland, north of the Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern corner of the mainland continent For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. Brisbane ( is the state capital of Queensland. Brisbane is the third most populous city in Australia and the most populous city of Queensland The mountain itself is an extinct volcano.

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Etymology

The name "Buderim" is from the local Kabi Kabi Aboriginal word for the hairpin honeysuckle, (Badderam) Banksia spinulosa var. collina, which grew abundantly around the plateau. The Kabi (or Kabi Kabi) people are an Aboriginal Murri people of Australia, and corresponding language group of the South East Queensland Indigenous Australians are descendants of the first known human inhabitants of the Australian continent and its nearby islands. Banksia spinulosa var collina is a shrub that grows along the east coast of Australia, in Queensland and New South Wales. Although it did not actually grow on the plateau, it is likely the name was given when the white man gestured in the direction of the slopes across the plants, asking what the area was called.

Industry

Buderim was seen as a resource for timbergetters, huge stands of Beech and cedar grew across the mountain. Some trees were so large in fact, they were wasted due to the lack of transport to carry them down to the river for despatch to Brisbane. Once clear felled, the plateau was used for farming, the rich red volcanic soil found on Buderim made the area particularly suited to growing almost everything, from bananas to small crops. The most notable were coffee and (in the 1900's) ginger, the crop which made Buderim famous. The farming pioneer Burnett, won awards for the quality of his coffee at shows in London during the late 1800's.

In the middle of the 1900s the largest ginger processing facility in the southern hemisphere was built, and operated until the factory closed and operations were moved closer to other ginger growing areas near Yandina. Yandina is a Sunshine Coast hinterland town on the Bruce Highway.

Many farmers left the land to get jobs, as the value of their produce was eroded, this was very much the fate of the Lindsay Family, who farmed massive orchards around the road which now bears their name. The value of Buderim as real estate pressured many others out of the rural lifestyle. Housing development increased in and around Buderim Mountain. Thanks to the huge leap in real estate values during the first decade of 2000, much land is now being developed that was once deemed too expensive to engineer for housing estates. Due to this development, all farming and much of the secondary growth rainforest on the escarpment has disappeared.

Buderim does contain one of the most significant heritage relics of the early days in the form of Pioneer Cottage, restored and cared for by the "Buderim Historical Society".

References

  1. ^ domain.com.au, accessed 19 December 2006


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