Frank Tutungi Memorial Park - Blackwater, Queensland, Australia - Flags of the World on Waymarking.com

Each flag is representative of the 37 different nationalities who laboured together to establish the town and the district's coal industry. The flags are permanent & line two sides of the park. Blackwater is known as the Coal Capital of Queensland.

The nations & state represented by the flags (in alphabetical order) are:

Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Denmark, Egypt, Fiji, Finland, France, Greece, Germany, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Queensland, South Africa, Spain, Singapore, UK, USA.

A plaque under the sign records the official unfurling of the flags in 1976. It is worded in part:

Lions Club of Blackwater

These flags were erected as a visual tribute to all those

people of different nationalities who combined their efforts

to mould Blackwater into a thriving township

the unfurling ceremony was carried out by

Honourable R.C.Katter M.P.

Federal Member for Kennedy

on the 12th day of June 1976

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