Kalinga Park, Brisbane
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Parts of Kalinga Park (foreground), Shaw Park and Mercer Park (background) looking west from Clayfield
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| Type | Public park |
| Location | Clayfield, Queensland |
| Coordinates | 27°24′24″S 153°03′07″E / 27.40675°S 153.05182°ECoordinates: 27°24′24″S 153°03′07″E / 27.40675°S 153.05182°E |
| Area | 196,600m2 |
| Created | 1910 |
| Operated by | Brisbane City Council |
| Status | Open |
| Website | http://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/facilities-recreation/parks-gardens/parks-by-suburb/clayfield-parks/index.htm |
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 Location of Kalinga Park in Queensland
Location of Kalinga Park in Queensland
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| Location | 100 Bertha Street, Wooloowin, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 27°24′27″S 153°03′15″E / 27.4076°S 153.0542°E |
| Official name: Kalinga Park, Anzac Memorial Park | |
| Type | state heritage (built) |
| Designated | 3 July 2007 |
| Reference no. | 602584 |
| Significant period | 1910- |
Kalinga Park is a heritage-listed park at 100 Bertha Street, Wooloowin, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is community park land associated with the locality of Kalinga, in the suburbs of Clayfield and Wooloowin. It is also known as Anzac Memorial Park. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 3 July 2007.
Previously known as Anzac Memorial Park, Kalinga Park was officially opened in 1910 and is located on the southwest bank of Kedron Brook at Wooloowin.
Kalinga Park occupies a portion of the early German Mission Station established at Zion Hill in 1838, forming the first free European settlement in Queensland. The missionaries named Kedron Brook, but the mission closed in 1850 and the area was surveyed in 1851 prior to other settlers moving into the area. By the 1880s, this area was industrial and in 1884 much of the land now comprising the park was declared a water reserve. Kalinga is derived from Ngalin-nga, a phrase in the Turrbal dialect said to mean "belonging to us".
The area was administered as part of the Shire of Toombul. Of 3 September 1910, Andrew Lang Petrie, Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Toombul officially opened the reserve as a park though several sports clubs were already using it. It had received improvements including levelling and clearing, the erection of a pavilion and the laying down of a cricket pitch.
In 1909 and 1911 land to the south of Kalinga Park between the Eagle Junction railway station and the reserve was subdivided and sold as residential blocks. This was an important stage in the subsequent development of the area, as was connection to Brisbane by tram in 1929.
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