Seventeen Mile Rocks, Queensland

Download coordinates as: Seventeen Mile Rocks is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

[3][6][7] A Bible Christian Chapel (a denomination of Methodism) was opened in Seventeen Mile Rocks in July 1869.

[8] Seventeen Mile Rocks State School opened circa 1874.

[10] A portion of Seventeen Mile Rocks comes from the Wolston Estate, consisting of 54 farms on an area of 3000 acres, offered for auction at Centennial Hall, Brisbane, on 16 October 1901.

[14] The suburb was previously an industrial one; but in recent years new housing estates have been developed greatly increasing the residential population.

The major road through the suburb is Seventeen Mile Rocks Road which links the suburb to Jindalee and the Western Freeway at the western end and Oxley at the eastern end.

It features walking and cycling tracks, a basketball court, a flying fox, a climbing web as well as picnic facilities and playing fields.

Map of the Brisbane River showing the Seventeen Mile Rocks prior to their removal and the Seventeen Mile Rocks State School, 1962
Man-made sandstone cairn at Seventeen Mile Rocks in the Brisbane River, circa 1940s