Thanes Creek, Queensland
Thanes Creek is a locality in the Southern Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. It is just north of the Cunningham Highway about west of Warwick.History
The locality was named after the creek, which was in turn named after John Thane, a pioneer pastoralist of the Ellangowan Run, who drowned in the Condamine River about 1843.Thanes Creek is a former gold mining area, and the site of a government approved gold fossicking area.
