Ravenswood
Electorate created by the Electoral Districts Act of 1872 but abolished in the 1877 redistribution.
Repulse
Bay inlet on the central Queensland coast. Oriented northwest-southeast, the bay is about 26 km wide and about 31 km long. Cook had hoped to lay up Endeavour, there for repairs, but the bay was insufficiently sheltered. Cook therefore gave the name Repulse to the bay and the sgroup of islands at its entrance.
Richmond
Downs cattle run taken up by Bundock and Hays from the Richmond River district of New South Wales in 1862.
Hill, residential suburb of Charters Towers deliberately situated away from the mining activity, now an education precinct for central and northern Queensland. The former residence of mining entrepreneur E.H. Thornburgh Plant, became the Methodist and Presbyterian churches' Thornburgh College (1919) and Blackheath and Thornburgh College in 1978. Other schools in the area include Columba (formerly Mt Carmel) Catholic College and the Anglican All Souls and St Gabriels Schools which began as separate boys' and girls' schools.
Local government area, originally Wyangarie Shire, named for a grazing property in the area,created on 1 January 1916 out of part of the Shire of Flinders. I lost part of its area to McKinlay Shire on 24 July 1930, and was renamed Richmond on 31 July 1954.
Rockhampton
Electorate created by the Additional Members Act of 1864 returning a single member. From 1878 until 1912 it was a dual member constituency reverting to a single member seat thereafter. The 1959 redistribution divided the city into Rockhampton North and Rockhampton South, which changed back to Rockhampton in 1971.
Rockhampton North
Electorate created by the Electoral Districts Act of 1887, returning one member until abolished in the 1911 redistribution when the seat of Keppel was introduced. Reconstituted in the 1959 redistribution, then abolished in 1991 and subsumed in the revived electorate of Keppel.
Rockingham
Bay, named by Cook on 8 June 1770 after The Marquis of Rockingham, who was Prime Minister 1765 to 1766. It is well Shelter'd, and affords good Anchorage; at least, so it appear'd to me, for having met with so little encouragement by going ashore that I would not wait to land or examine it farther...
Rollingstone
Rural settlement north-west of Townsville. Originally part of the Armidale pastoral run (1883), the area was known as Armidale until changed to Rollingstone in 1902.