Norman Gardens, Queensland


Norman Gardens is a suburb of Rockhampton in the Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia.

Geography

Norman Gardens is bounded by the Bruce Highway to the west, the Yeppoon Road to the north and by Moores Creek to the south. The main Rockhampton campus of the Central Queensland University is in the north-west corner of suburb on the corner of the Bruce Highway and the Yeppoon Road. The North Rockhampton Cemetery is located in the south-west of the suburb on the corner of the Bruce Highway and Moores Creek Road with the rest of area along the Bruce Highway being commercial premises with the residential areas behind them to the east.
The western side of the locality is relatively flat and is cleared and developed. However, in the east of the locality the land become more mountainous with Peak Hill and an unnamed peak ; this land is generally not developed apart from a quarry at Peak Hill.

Big Bulls

On the median strip of the Bruce Highway on the border of Park Avenue and Norman Gardens is one of the seven Big Bulls statues that decorate Rockhampton, which regards itself as the Beef Capital of Australia. The Park Avenue/Norman Gardens statue is of a Braham bull. The Big Bulls are listed as one of Australia's big things.