ROCKHAMPTON, population 65,000,
the unauthorised capital of central Queensland, 650 kilometres north of
the state capital Brisbane, sits only a matter of metres north of the
Tropic of Capricorn. The city almost escaped being in the tropics. A few
kilometres south and it would have.
But such was not to be. Climatically Rockhampton is firmly within what geographers call "the torrid zone" and over the years it has managed to get itself a reputation as a torridly tropical city - a reputation that even really tropical cities a thousand miles nearer the equator don't have - and would not want.
http://justiceproject.net/content/SinSweatAndSorrow.asp
But such was not to be. Climatically Rockhampton is firmly within what geographers call "the torrid zone" and over the years it has managed to get itself a reputation as a torridly tropical city - a reputation that even really tropical cities a thousand miles nearer the equator don't have - and would not want.
http://justiceproject.net/content/SinSweatAndSorrow.asp