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Browse our web site for some useful information on Townsville and North Queensland. Allow us to take you on a journey to discover Townsville, Magnetic Island and the magnificent North Queensland and Australia. You will also find useful information on Far North Queensland including Cairns and the surrounding areas.
Courtesy of Queensland Tourism
Townsville is the gateway and unofficial capital of Tropical North Queensland.
Welcome to the cosmopolitan city of Townsville. While you are discovering Townsville you’ll find friendly faces with fun and exciting things to discover. On average Townsville enjoys 320 days of sunshine a year. With magnificent weather like that why would you want to visit anywhere else?
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Townsville is located in the dry tropics, 1,335 km north of Brisbane and 349km south of Cairns or 1.5 hrs flight time from Brisbane. The Whitsundays is located only 270km south.
Head south west just 90 minite drive and you’ll find the historic gold mine town of Charters Towers. The goldfield was discovered on Christmas Day in 1871.
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The night life and entertainment is abundant with Flinders Street East the hub of the Townsville nightclubs.
There you’ll find late-night entertainment throughout the week and bands regularly appearing in the city and also at James Cook University.
Townsville also prides itself on professional theatres, jazz, classical music scene and professional dance company.
There are 5 resort Island around the Townsville Region. Orpheous, Dunk, Hinchinbrook, Bedarra and Magnetic Island. All offering different experiences and adventures.
Mission Beach, Cardwell and Ingham are pretty coastal towns with great fishing, waterfalls and National Parks.
Magnetic Island is only 8 kilometres from the Mainland and just a quick ferry ride over. There are some great accommodation choices including
Ascot Cottage accommodation.
Travel the region and you will discover the remarkable outback with it's ever changing colours to the lush tropics all within a few hours drive.
Townsville's Past
Sailing past Townsville on his first visit to Australia in 1770, Captain James Cook, although he didn’t land, named coastal regions such as Magnetic Island, Cleveland Bay and Cape Cleveland.
The first Europeans recorded landing in Cleveland Bay in 1819 was explorer and botanist Alan Cunningham and Phillip Parker King. Botanical specimens were collected by Cunningham and taken back to England.
Shipwrecked in 1846,14 crew members including James Morrill from the barque, the Peruvian for 42 days. Morrill was the first European to live in the area with the local indigenous Bindal people for 17 years.
North Queensland’s first European settlement was Bowen in 1861. Bowen was formally known as Port Denison.
To read more on the chronological history of Townsville click here
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