Basin Pocket, Queensland
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Basin Pocket Ipswich, Queensland |
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Bremer River and park, 2015
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 Basin Pocket
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| Coordinates | 27°36′04″S 152°46′18″E / 27.6010°S 152.7718°ECoordinates: 27°36′04″S 152°46′18″E / 27.6010°S 152.7718°E | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 861 (2011) | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 4305 | ||||||||||||||
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| LGA(s) | City of Ipswich | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Ipswich | ||||||||||||||
| Federal Division(s) | Blair | ||||||||||||||
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Basin Pocket is a small residential suburb of the City of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. At the 2011 Australian Census the suburb recorded a population of 861.
The suburb is bordered to the north and west by the Bremer River, and the remainder by East Ipswich. It contains a small set of shops on the corner of Chermside Rd and Jacaranda Street providing basic services.
The origin of the suburb name is derived from "The Basin", an enlarged natural widening used by river steamers to turn before or after berthing at Ipswich, which the suburb is adjacent to. The explorer Allan Cunningham noted the Basin in 1828, and the Rev. Dr John Dunmore Lang suggested that Basin Pocket or Booval might have been a better site for the main settlement.
A ferry service between Basin Pocket and North Ipswich was established by William Isaac Lawrence sometime after his family settled there in the 1860s (This service does not exist today).
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