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Hervey Bay (/ ˈ h ɑːr v i /) [4] is a city on the coast of the Fraser Coast Region of Queensland, Australia. [5] The city is situated approximately 290 kilometres (180 mi) or 3½ hours' highway drive north of the state capital, Brisbane.
Dalgaroom run was reduced to 14,000 acres (5,700 ha) and renamed Toogoom, while the balance of the land was set aside for a railway reserve. From 1870 the Toogoom run was resumed and cut into blocks for sale. Many selectors around Hervey Bay were Danish immigrants, arriving from 1871 as part of an assisted migration scheme.
It is located near Hervey Bay and River Heads. It divides the flow of the Susan River, causing one division to converge with Bunya Creek as it flows into the Great Sandy Strait. The island is 116 hectares in size. Kangaroo Island has recently been listed for sale. [1] [2] [3]
The Gubbi Gubbi were described as an inland tribe of the Wide Bay–Burnett area, whose lands extended over 3,700 sq. miles and lay west of Maryborough. The northern borders ran as far as Childers and Hervey Bay. On the south, they approached the headwaters of the Mary River and Cooroy. Westwards, they reached as far as the Coast Ranges and ...
Hervey Bay is a bay of the Coral Sea in the Bundaberg Region and Fraser Coast Region of Queensland, Australia. [1] The bay covers 4,000 square kilometres (1,500 sq mi) with a main opening facing northwards. The northern end of the bay is about 80 km wide and its average depth is about 20 metres. [2] In the south of the bay lies the Great Sandy ...
The locality is bounded to the north by Hervey Bay (the bay not the town, 3] and to the east by the northern end of the Great Sandy Strait (and beyond it, Fraser [ 4 ] Dayman Point is a headland ( 25°17′03″S 152°54′18″E / 25.2843°S 152.9050°E / -25.2843; 152.9050 ( Dayman Point
On 20 December 1975, the Shire of Burrum was renamed the Shire of Hervey Bay with effect from the local government elections of 27 March 1976. With the new focus on the coastal region, 1,086.4 km 2 (419.5 sq mi) of its area, with an estimated population of 1,119, was annexed by the City of Maryborough , while 1,269.0 km 2 (490.0 sq mi) with an ...
Torquay (/ t ɔːr k iː / tor-KEY) is a coastal suburb in Hervey Bay in the Fraser Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. [2] In the 2021 census , Torquay had a population of 6,533 people. [ 1 ]