Ottaba, Queensland
Ottaba is a rural locality in the Somerset Region, Queensland, Australia. In the, Ottaba had a population of 54 people.History
On 26 February 1904, the Queensland Railways Department named the former railway station in the area Ottaba, which is a Wakawaka language word in the Dungibara dialect meaning come on. Anthropologist Walter Edmund Roth is believed to have suggested the name. The locality takes its name from the former railway station.
Newton Provisional School opened on 15 September 1898. In 1905 it was renamed Ottaba Provisional School. On 1 January 1909 it became Ottaba State School. It closed temporarily in 1924. It permanently closed circa 1936.
