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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 ...
Hervey Bay is a stopover for mature female humpback whales. Mature females visit Hervey Bay during August in company with the cohort of immature males and females. During September and October Hervey Bay is dominated by Mature females with new calves. The humpback whales are known to be very relaxed in the company of the whale watching vessels.
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State Strategic Touring Routes are road routes in Queensland, Australia, which have been identified as significant to motoring tourists.These are the primary routes used by tourists as they provide the connections between popular tourist locations, and consequently have high volumes of tourist traffic.
Torquay State School is a government primary (Prep-6) school for boys and girls at Tavistock Street (23] [24] In 2018, the school had an enrolment of 441 students with 36 teachers (31 full-time equivalent) and 25 non-teaching staff (15 full-time equivalent). [25]
Map of Hervey Bay and surrounds, 1942. In July and August 1799 Matthew Flinders chartered the coast from Moreton Bay to Hervey Bay in the Norfolk. [6] [7] Although he established that K'gari was not a peninsula (as was then believed) but an island, he failed to find a navigable channel through the Great Sandy Strait.
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 ...
European settlement at Hervey Bay began with the establishment of the pastoral run Dalgaroom (16,000 acres (6,500 ha)) in the mid-1850s, and timber-getting commenced in the district in the mid-1860s. Dalgaroom run was reduced to 14,000 acres (5,700 ha) and renamed Toogoom, which was later resumed and surveyed as farming portions from 1870. [ 2 ]