Ban Ban Springs, Queensland
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Ban Ban Springs Queensland |
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| Coordinates | 25°40′34″S 151°49′13″E / 25.67611°S 151.82028°ECoordinates: 25°40′34″S 151°49′13″E / 25.67611°S 151.82028°E |
| Postcode(s) | 4625 |
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| LGA(s) | North Burnett Region |
| State electorate(s) | Callide |
| Federal Division(s) | Flynn |
Ban Ban Springs is the formally approved and current name given by the Minister for Natural Resources on 24 September 1999 to a small community in Queensland, Australia, located at the junction of the Burnett and Isis highways.
On the southern side of the road junction are the springs from which the community gets its name, being rare springs from which waters flow into the nearby Barambah Creek.
The name Ban Ban Springs finds its source in the name originally used by H. Herbert when, in 1846, he first leased the pastoral run encompassing the springs. It is reported Herbert borrowed the words "Ban Ban" (meaning grass) from the local Wakka Wakka and/or Kabi Kabi languages.
The springs (rather than the community) are the first place in Queensland to have been formally registered as an Aboriginal cultural heritage place — being a Dreaming place of great significance to the Wakka Wakka people.
After the Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines sponsored a formal study to which the Wakka Wakka Jinda were a party, the high significance of the place to the Wakka Wakka people was confirmed. By 2005 the springs were entered on to the State's Aboriginal Cultural Heritage register for the following reasons:
"Ban Ban [Springs] is a sacred site and has a Dreamtime association with the Rainbow Serpent which is believed to have surfaced there. It spoke to the elders of the tribe telling them the secrets of the sacred waters and how to use it. The Rainbow Serpent also told of talks he had had with the seven sisters and of the wonders he had seen while making the pathways for the sacred water to flow in this area. (This legend is retold on a mural erected at the site by elders Mavis Hawkins, Dennis and Daniel Cobbo of the Wakka Wakka tribe and their people.)"
"It is the birth place of many elders of the Wakka Wakka people with elders of this group living in the town of Gayndah."
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