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Taringa, Queensland
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| Taringa Brisbane, Queensland |
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| Population: | 7,107 (2004)[1] | ||||||||||||
| Postcode: | 4068 | ||||||||||||
| Area: | 2.1 km² | ||||||||||||
| LGA: | Brisbane City Council, Toowong Ward and Walter Taylor Ward | ||||||||||||
| State District: | Indooroopilly | ||||||||||||
| Federal Division: | Ryan | ||||||||||||
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Taringa is a suburb of Brisbane, Australia located 5 km south-west of the Brisbane CBD. Taringa is mostly residential, except for a small number of commercial buildings mostly clustered along Moggill Road. It is a popular neighbourhood among the students of University of Queensland and the Queensland University of Technology because of its proximity to the universities and to the Brisbane city.
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Taringa is dominated by a ridge that runs the length of Swann Road, with steep slopes on either side of the ridge.
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The name Taringa is made up of two Aboriginal words: tarau (stones) and nga (made up of). Together, they mean "place of stones".
Taringa is also a home of student accommodation, Altitude at Taringa Apartments, built on the site of the old Taringa primary school called Taringa State School.
The Taringa Scout Den is the home of the Taringa-Milton-Toowong Scout Group. It is also used as a GoJu Karate training facility and for Yoga.
Taringa is the home of the Taringa Rovers Soccer Football Club.
By Train, Taringa Station is part of the CityTrain network, on the Ipswich railway line providing travel to the Brisbane CBD and Ipswich
By Bus, Taringa is serviced by Brisbane Transport buses to the Brisbane CBD, Chancellor's Place at UQ St Lucia, Indooroopilly, Long Pocket, Chapel Hill and Kenmore.
By Road, Taringa's main thoroughfares are Swann Road and Moggill Road.
- Gwen Harwood, an Australian poet, was born in Taringa.
- Clement Lindley Wragge, a meteorologist, lived in Taringa in a house named Capemba in the 1890s.
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