Balnagowan
- Local Government Area
- Mackay
- Postcode
- 4740
- Population
- 438
- Area
- 40.96 km²
- Coordinates
- -21.1175, 149.0086
- Data
- Based on Australian Bureau of Statistics ASGS boundaries, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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About Balnagowan
Balnagowan is a rural locality in the Mackay Region, Queensland, 20 kilometres west of Mackay along the Pioneer River. Named after the ancestral home of the Ross family in Scotland, the area was first settled in 1862 and today supports sugar cane growing and coal mining as its primary industries.
Nearby localities
- Pleystowe 4 km
- The Leap 7 km
- Hampden (Qld) 7 km
- Walkerston 7 km
- Dumbleton 7 km
- Greenmount (Mackay - Qld) 8 km