Wivenhoe Pocket, Queensland
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Wivenhoe Pocket is a rural suburb of Somerset Region, Queensland
, Australia
. It was named after an early pastoral run managed by Edmund Blucher Uhr, who named it after the Essex village
of Wivenhoe.
Queensland
Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
. It was named after an early pastoral run managed by Edmund Blucher Uhr, who named it after the Essex village
Wivenhoe
Wivenhoe is a town in north eastern Essex, England, approximately south east of Colchester. Historically Wivenhoe village, on the banks of the River Colne, and Wivenhoe Cross, on the higher ground to the north, were two separate settlements but with considerable development in the 19th century the...
of Wivenhoe.