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Townsville is a city on the north-eastern coast of Queensland, Australia. With a population of approximately 204,541 as of 2026, it is the largest settlement in North Queensland and Northern Australia
Ross River flowing through Townsville CBD
Aerial view of the city in Australia
PTRG exterior street 2012 1
Former Queen's Hotel, The Strand, Townsville, established 1872
Queensland
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Queensland is a state in northeastern Australia, the second-largest and third-most-populous state in Australia. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the wes
Townsville
…Townsville is a city on the north-eastern coast of Queensland, Australia. With a population of approximately 204,541 as of 2026, it is the largest settlement in North Queensland and Northern Australia (specifically…
Captain James Cook claims the east coast of Australia for the Kingdom of Great Britain at Possession Island in 1770
The peninsula of Seventeen Seventy, Queensland, where Captain Cook landed in 1770
Fighting between Burke and Wills's supply party and Aboriginal Australians at Bulla in 1861
Aftermath of the 1861 Cullin-La-Ringo massacre in which 19 settlers were killed by Aboriginal people, the deadliest attack on settlers in the frontier wars