Gin Gin, Queensland, Australia
Gin Gin is a town in Gin Gin, Queensland, Australia.
Place Notes
Gin Gin (pop. 3,000) is 51 kilometers west of Bundaberg. This is where the Bruce Highway from Childers joins up with the northern access to Bundaberg.
The town is in a part of what used to be Gin Gin Station owned by Sir Thomas McIllwraith, former Premier of Queensland. It was settled about 1847 by Gregory Blaxland and William Forster.
The district was the haunt of the "Wild Scotsman" (James McPherson), Queensland's only authentic bushranger. He would lay in wait for the mail delivery and hold up the carrier. Eventually he was captured at Monduran Station and convicted at Maryborough. A re-enactment of the event is held on the fourth weekend of March every year. The society has purchased the police sergeant's residence to house the district's pioneering memorabilia.
