Moranbah

Download coordinates as: Moranbah is a coal mining town and locality in the Isaac Region, Queensland, Australia.

[6][7] Moranbah experiences a subtropical semi-arid climate (Köppen: BSh) with hot, relatively wet summers and very mild, dry winters with cool nights.

[8] The first European to explore the region was Ludwig Leichhardt in January 1845, and the area was first settled by pastoralists in the 1850s.

[10] The town was rapidly expanded in the late 1970s by the Utah Development Company to house mine workers.

It has been featured twice (once in 1977 and again in 2012) on Four Corners, an investigative news program, exploring the effects of Australia's various mining booms on local rural communities.

[23] For a small regional town it offers a diverse range of sports and entertainment facilities including a skate park, library, public swimming pool, soccer, rugby league, golf course,[28] AFL, hockey, tennis, off-road racing, motocross and a BMX club.

Isaac Regional Council operates a public library located at Grosvenor Complex, Batchelor Parade, Town Square.