Pimlico, Queensland
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For other uses, see Pimlico (disambiguation)
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Pimlico, is a suburb of Townsville, Australia. Townsville's largest private hospital
, the Mater Misericordiae Hospital
is located here. The local high school is Pimlico State High School
.
The suburb also contains the 20 hectare
Anderson Park
, an arboretum
containing particularly fine specimens of pandanus
.
Pimlico (disambiguation)
Pimlico is a district in London.It may also refer to:* Pimlico tube station in London's Pimlico district-Australia:* Pimlico, Queensland, a suburb of Townsville, Australia* Pimlico State High School, in Townsville, Australia-USA:...
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Pimlico, is a suburb of Townsville, Australia. Townsville's largest private hospital
Private hospital
A private hospital is a hospital owned by a profit company or a non-profit organisation and privately funded through payment for medical services by patients themselves, by insurers, or by foreign embassies. This practice is very common in the United States and Australia...
, the Mater Misericordiae Hospital
Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Townsville
The Mater Hospital Pimlico The Mater Hospital Pimlico The Mater Hospital Pimlico (formerly known as the Mater Misericordiae Hospital, and commonly known as 'The Mater' - is the largest private hospital in Townsville, Queensland. It is located in the central inner suburb of Pimlico. The hospital...
is located here. The local high school is Pimlico State High School
Pimlico State High School
For other uses, see Pimlico .Pimlico State High School is a public high school in Townsville, Australia. The school places much emphasis on academic achievement and performing arts, especially music.-Facilities:...
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The suburb also contains the 20 hectare
Hectare
The hectare is a metric unit of area defined as 10,000 square metres , and primarily used in the measurement of land. In 1795, when the metric system was introduced, the are was defined as being 100 square metres and the hectare was thus 100 ares or 1/100 km2...
Anderson Park
Anderson Park, Townsville
Anderson Park is a 20 hectare arboretum in the suburb of Pimlico in Townsville, Queensland.-The Gardens:It contains many fine examples of tropical northern Queensland trees, ferns, palms and one of the world's largest pandanus collection....
, an arboretum
Arboretum
An arboretum in a narrow sense is a collection of trees only. Related collections include a fruticetum , and a viticetum, a collection of vines. More commonly, today, an arboretum is a botanical garden containing living collections of woody plants intended at least partly for scientific study...
containing particularly fine specimens of pandanus
Pandanus
Pandanus is a genus of monocots with about 600 known species. They are numerous palmlike dioecious trees and shrubs native of the Old World tropics and subtropics. They are classified in the order Pandanales, family Pandanaceae.-Overview:...
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