Normanton, Queensland
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Normanton is an outback town and coastal locality in the Shire of Carpentaria, Queensland, Australia. At the 2021 census, the locality of Normanton had a population of 1,391 people, and the town of No
Entry into Normanton
Old Customs House, Normanton, ca. 1913. John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland.
War memorial, Normanton, 2019
Normanton ANZAC Roll of Honour, 2019
Burketown
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Burketown is an isolated outback town and coastal locality in the Shire of Burke, Queensland, Australia. It is located 898 kilometres or 558 miles west of Cairns and 227 kilometres or 141 miles west o
Normanton, Queensland
…The new town of Norman was surveyed by George Phillips in December 1867 and was officially gazetted on 8 August 1868. It was seen as an alternative to Burketown which had issues with fever and flooding. On 11 October 1868 the first land sale of 167 town lots of 1⁄4 and 1⁄2 acre (0.10 and 0.20 ha) was held at…
Burketown pub (destroyed by fire in 2012)
A Morning Glory cloud near Burketown.