386 miles, about 7 hours
From Gladstone to Biloela is a distance of 120km. Travel time is around 1 hr 45 mins.
The distance from Biloela to Brisbane is 588 km. Travel time is around six and a half hours.
See link to Wikipedia article As a general rule, Biloela is hot and dry in Summer, with average summer temperatures ranging from 16 to 35 degrees Celsius, although it can certainly get hotter. Winter temperatures range from 0 to 23 degrees Celsius. As Biloela is located inland, there is less rainfall than in the coastal areas: average annual rainfall is 680mm.
HMAS Biloela was created on 1920-07-05.
HMAS Biloela ended on 1927-11-14.
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Cotton is mainly farmed in two areas of Australia: - The Darling Downs of southern Queensland, around Cecil Plains and Dalby, west to St George and Dirranbandi and the Macintyre Valley. Cotton is also grown near Emerald, Theodore and Biloela in Central Queensland. Cotton is also grown in Northern inland New South Wales, south from the Macintyre River on the Queensland border through the Gwydir, Namoi and Macquarie valleys. Towns in luxe Moree and Narrabri. In NSW cotton is also grown along the Barwon and Darling rivers in the far west and the Lachlan and Murrumbidgee rivers.
About 1hr and 45 mins
391 km 4 hours
Riley Bath from Biloela QLD
When cotton arrives at a textile mill, several blenders feed cotton into cleaning machines, which mix the cotton, break it into smaller pieces and remove trash. The cotton is sucked through a pipe into picking machines. Beaters in these machines strike the cotton repeatedly to knock out dirt and separate lumps of cotton into smaller pieces.Cotton then goes to the carding machine, where the fibers are separated. Trash and short fibers are removed. Some cotton goes through a comber that removes more short fibers and makes a stronger, more lustrous yarn.This is followed by spinning processes which do three jobs: draft the cotton, or reduce it to smaller structures, straighten and parellel the fibers and lastly, put twist into the yarn. The yarns are then made into cloth by weaving, knitting or other processes.After inspectors check the cloth, it is passed through a gas flame that singes the fuzz off its surface. Boiling the cloth in an alkaline solution removes natural waxes, coloured substances or disclourations. Then the cloth is bleached in hypochlorite or peroxide. The cloth may then pass through a machine that prints designs on it. Cloth intended to be solid-coloured goes thorugh a dye bathYA MUM