Kalapa

Kalapa is a rural locality in the Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia.

Kalapa is a rural locality in the Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia.In the 2016 census Kalapa had a population of 86 people.

Originally known as Woodend, the name was officially changed to Kalapa in 1923 to avoid confusion with other communities of the same name such as Woodend.

Woodend State School opened on 8 June 1915 after local property owner Benjamin Dallow donated two acres of land to the education department for the purpose of erecting a new primary school.The opening was celebrated with a picnic on the banks of Neerkol Creek and an evening dance at the new school where an official ceremony was also held during which Dallow declared the school open.Some improvements were implemented following the initial opening, including raising the school onto stumps and boarding up unenclosed sides.The school was then officially opened by Herbert Hardacre in February 1917.In 1934 it was renamed Kalapa State School in line with the community's name change a decade earlier.Kalapa State School closed on 13 December 1996.Following the school's closure, the building was donated and relocated to the Rockhampton Heritage Village township museum at Parkhurst where it has been preserved as a typical Australian country school of the 20th century.In 2015, the school's centenary was celebrated at Kalapa which included opening a time capsule which had been buried at the school's 75th anniversary in 1990.

In 2013, Australia's first farm-born, hand-cloned cow was born on a local Kalapa cattle property which attracted considerable interest from the scientific community and agricultural industry. The calf, named "Eve", was cloned from a prize Australian Brangus cow which had been purchased for $20,000.It was born on Oaklands Brangus Stud during the 2013 floods which were caused by ex-Cyclone Oswald.Australian reproductive specialists described the event as significant as it was believed to have been the first time a successful handmade cloning had been achieved using a somatic cell nuclear transfer outside a laboratory setting.