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Mount Gravatt is the name of both a major suburb of Brisbane
Brisbane

Brisbane is the state List of Australian capital cities of Queensland and its most populous city. It is also the List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, behind southern rivals Sydney and Melbourne....
, Queensland
Queensland

Queensland is a States and territories of Australia of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory to the west, South Australia to the south-west and New South Wales to the south....
, Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
 and a prominent hill in this suburb. The suburb is situated in the south-east of the city and was one of Brisbane's largest. This was before it was divided into Mount Gravatt East
Mount Gravatt East, Queensland

Mount Gravatt East is a suburb of Brisbane, Australia. It is 8 km south-east of the CBD.Mount Gravatt East is named after Mount Gravatt, a nearby landmark....
, Upper Mount Gravatt
Upper Mount Gravatt, Queensland

Upper Mount Gravatt is a suburb in Brisbane, to the south of Mount Gravatt. It has increasingly become an important centre in the last 15 years....
 and Mount Gravatt South; the last being changed to Wishart
Wishart, Queensland

Wishart is a suburb of Brisbane, Australia. It is 14 km south-east of the CBD.The Brisbane Adventist College is located in Wishart. Bulimba Creek flows through the suburb....
 in the early 1990s.

Mt Gravatt hill was named in 1840 after Lieutenant George Gravatt
George Gravatt

Lieutenant George Gravatt was an officer in the British Army, and in 1839 was briefly commander of the Moreton Bay settlement in what is now Brisbane, Australia....
 who was the commander of the Moreton Bay Settlement
History of Brisbane

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, is named for Thomas Brisbane , United Kingdom soldier and colonial administrator born in Ayrshire, Scotland. Sir Thomas Brisbane was Governors of New South Wales at the time that Brisbane was named....
 for two months in 1839.






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Mount Gravatt is the name of both a major suburb of Brisbane
Brisbane

Brisbane is the state List of Australian capital cities of Queensland and its most populous city. It is also the List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, behind southern rivals Sydney and Melbourne....
, Queensland
Queensland

Queensland is a States and territories of Australia of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory to the west, South Australia to the south-west and New South Wales to the south....
, Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
 and a prominent hill in this suburb. The suburb is situated in the south-east of the city and was one of Brisbane's largest. This was before it was divided into Mount Gravatt East
Mount Gravatt East, Queensland

Mount Gravatt East is a suburb of Brisbane, Australia. It is 8 km south-east of the CBD.Mount Gravatt East is named after Mount Gravatt, a nearby landmark....
, Upper Mount Gravatt
Upper Mount Gravatt, Queensland

Upper Mount Gravatt is a suburb in Brisbane, to the south of Mount Gravatt. It has increasingly become an important centre in the last 15 years....
 and Mount Gravatt South; the last being changed to Wishart
Wishart, Queensland

Wishart is a suburb of Brisbane, Australia. It is 14 km south-east of the CBD.The Brisbane Adventist College is located in Wishart. Bulimba Creek flows through the suburb....
 in the early 1990s.

Mt Gravatt hill was named in 1840 after Lieutenant George Gravatt
George Gravatt

Lieutenant George Gravatt was an officer in the British Army, and in 1839 was briefly commander of the Moreton Bay settlement in what is now Brisbane, Australia....
 who was the commander of the Moreton Bay Settlement
History of Brisbane

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, is named for Thomas Brisbane , United Kingdom soldier and colonial administrator born in Ayrshire, Scotland. Sir Thomas Brisbane was Governors of New South Wales at the time that Brisbane was named....
 for two months in 1839. Gravatt was later transferred to India where he died in 1843.

Between 1953 and 1969 electric tram
Tram

A tram, tramcar, trolley, trolley car, or streetcar is a railroad car, of lighter weight and construction than a train, designed for the transport of passengers within, close to, or between villages, towns and/or cities, on tracks running primarily on streets....
s ran from the suburb into Brisbane's Central Business District
Brisbane central business district

The Brisbane central business district , or 'the City' is a suburb of Brisbane, Australia and is located on a point on the northern bank of the Brisbane River....
 (CBD) along Logan Road
Logan Road, Brisbane

Logan Road is a major road in Brisbane, Queensland. It runs 16 km from Springwood, Queensland to Woolloongabba, Queensland, with most of the route signed as state route 95....
. As Mount Gravatt was the end of the line, part of the area was known locally as "The Terminus". Since then public transport has been provided by bus
Bus

A bus is a road vehicle designed to carry passengers. A bus can generally seat a maximum of anywhere from 8 to 200 passengers; many more passengers than a minivan....
es operated by Brisbane Transport
Brisbane Transport

Brisbane Transport is a business unit of Brisbane City Council, operating suburban and urban area bus services under the TransLink integrated public transport scheme in Brisbane, the state capital of Queensland, Australia....
 and a local bus company the Mt Gravatt Bus Service
Mt Gravatt Bus Service

Mt Gravatt Bus Service is a bus operator, servicing places between Brisbane, Logan City, Queensland and Redland Shire, Queensland in Queensland, Australia....
. The South East Busway
South-East Busway, Brisbane

The South-East Busway is a grade separation bus-only corridor running south from the Brisbane Central business district to Eight Mile Plains, Queensland, in South East Queensland....
 is connected by a service from Mount Gravatt Central to the Busway terminal at Griffith University
Griffith University Busway Station, Brisbane

The Griffith University Busway Station, at Mount Gravatt, Queensland, is part of the South-East Busway, Brisbane serviced by TransLink services bus routes....
.

The people of greater Mount Gravatt are represented by the State parliamentary seats of Mansfield and Mount Gravatt and the federal seats of Bonner
Division of Bonner

The Division of Bonner is an Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives in Queensland. The division was created in 2004 and is named after Neville Bonner, the first Australian Aborigine to serve in the Australian Parliament....
, Griffith
Division of Griffith

The Division of Griffith is anDivisions of the Australian House of Representatives in Queensland.The division was created in 1934, when the old seat of Division of Oxley was abolished, and is named for Sir Samuel Griffith, 9th Premiers of Queensland and principal author of the Australian Constitution....
 and Moreton
Division of Moreton

The Division of Moreton is an Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives in Queensland. The division was created in 1900 and was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the Australian federal election, 1901....
.

The Mt Gravatt Showgrounds are an important centre for cultural and community activities and the site of the annual Mt Gravatt Show, an agricultural fair. The grounds are positioned on Logan Road, opposite the mega-church, Garden City Christian Church
Garden City Christian Church

Garden City Christian Church is a Pentecostalism Christianity church affiliated with Australian Christian Churches, the Assemblies of God in Australia....
.

Mt Gravatt Lookout is accessible via Shire Road which winds its way past water towers up to the lookout carpark and a communications tower. Furthermore, there is a large cave complex located on a walking trail on the southern slope of the mountain.

Education

  • Mount Gravatt State High School
    Mount Gravatt State High School

    Mount Gravatt State High School is a Coeducation government Secondary school of approximately 743 students is located in Mount Gravatt, Queensland, a suburb in the south of Brisbane, Australia....
    .
  • Griffith University
    Griffith University

    Griffith University is a public university based on the Gold Coast, Queensland and in Brisbane, Australia. The total enrolment is 31,000 undergraduate students and 6000 postgraduate students....
     - Mount Gravatt Campus.
  • Mount Gravatt State School.
  • St Agnes Catholic Primary School.


Sport

  • Mount Gravatt is represented by the Mt Gravatt Australian Rules Football Club
    Mt Gravatt Australian Football Club

    Mount Gravatt Australian Football Club, is a Brisbane based club competing in the AFL Queensland Australian rules football competition. Formed in the early 1970s, the club has been affiliated with AFL Queensland since 1994....
     in the Queensland State League. The club were premiers in 2007.
  • The Mt Gravatt Hawks Soccer Club plays in the Brisbane Premier League.


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Mt Gravatt Panorama