Calen - Township
Australia / Calen, Queensland
Location ID: #10183478
The town of Calen takes its name from the Calen railway station which was named on 8 February 1924. The land is mostly flat and used for sugar cane farming, apart from some undeveloped mountains across the western boundary of the locality and some small undeveloped hill land in the east which is on the Queensland coast.
The Bruce Highway passes from the south-east to the north-west of the locality. The North Coast railway line runs immediately north and parallel to the highway.
Located 1081km (34 miles/ 11 hr 56 mins) from Village Roadshow Studios. The nearest airport is Proserpine Whitsunday Coast Airport (PPP). The closest POH, Mackay, is 55km (32 miles/ 43 mins) away.
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