Download coordinates as: Mount Larcom is the name of a mountain, a rural town and locality in the Gladstone Region, Queensland, Australia.

[1] The town is in the south-western corner of the locality is at the junction of the Bruce Highway and Gladstone–Mount Larcom Road (State Route 58) approximately 70 kilometres (43 mi) south of the city of Rockhampton.

[13] The following year, William Young, a Scottish colonist who was previously a storekeeper at Gayndah, established the Mount Larcombe sheep station.

William Young gave food and clothing to the local Aboriginal people in exchange for their land and their labour shearing his sheep, but also drove them away when they were not needed.

Native Police troopers were stationed on the property and in November 1855 they opened fire on a group of Aboriginal people at Mount Larcombe killing one.

It was thought that some of the people shot at were involved in an attack a month earlier on the Native Police barracks located at nearby Rannes.

He was quickly informed of the killings and a punitive expedition was organised under the command of Lieutenant John Murray of the Native Police.

After resupplying at Gladstone, Wheeler set out again along the coastal estuaries where "some firing took place but unluckily no blacks were shot."

Lieutenant John Murray with his own detachment of troopers then joined with Wheeler's group at Mount Larcombe and together set out on a large punitive expedition to the upper reaches of the Calliope River.

Murray later reported that they came upon a large camp of Aboriginal people in that region and shot dead five of them, expressing disappointment that not more had been killed.

Murray left instructions to Wheeler to conduct further operations to track down Aboriginal people when resupplied and the weather improved.

[16] Mount Larcombe Provisional School opened on 13 November 1882, but closed for some time during the 1890s due to low student numbers.

[19][20] In 1909, township allotments were advertised for sale as 'Mt Larcombe Estate', with the map showing the Gladstone railway station adjacent to the property.