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Lockyer Valley

Valleys

The Lockyer Valley is an area of rich farmland west of Brisbane and east of Toowoomba in Queensland, Australia, rated among the top ten most fertile farming areas in the world. Its intensively cultivated land grows one of the most diverse ranges of commercial fruit and vegetables of any area in Australia, earning it the description Australia's Salad Bowl. The valley is experiencing increasing urbanization at its eastern and western ends as growth spreads between the Brisbane-Ipswich conurbation and Toowoomba, with planning measures confining new development to non-arable land on the slopes of the surrounding hills. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Classification
Protected Status
National Park or Reserve 1
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Caused By

Erosion, Processes

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Erosion via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Lockyer Valley

In Discipline

Geomorphology, Disciplines

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to discipline Geomorphology via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Lockyer Valley
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Found In

Australia

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Source Wikidata: Lockyer Valley
Sources
1. UNEP-WCMC and IUCN, World Database on Protected Areas: World Database on Protected Areas record: Lockyer
UNEP-WCMC and IUCN, World Database on Protected AreasWDPA record, field desig_eng
Quote, WDPA record, field desig_eng
"desig_eng": "National Park"
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Lockyer Valley (Wikipedia)
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Quote, Lead section
The Lockyer Valley is an area of rich farmlands that lies to the west of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia and east of Toowoomba.
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Wikidata: Lockyer Valley
Wikidata Q1867668, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
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