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St Mary's by the Sea was constructed in 1914 replacing an earlier Roman Catholic church at Port Douglas, which had been destroyed by the cyclone of March 1911. [1] [2] Port Douglas was established in 1877 as a port to service the newly opened Hodgkinson goldfield, west of the Great Dividing Range. In the period 1877 to 1893 Port Douglas ...
Port Douglas is a coastal town and locality in the Shire of Douglas, Queensland, Australia, [2] [3] approximately 60 km north of Cairns. In the 2021 census , the locality of Port Douglas had a population of 3,650 people. [ 1 ]
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Snapper Island is an island at the mouth of the Daintree River in Queensland, Australia, some 20 kilometres (12 miles) north of Port Douglas. It is administered by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service as the Snapper Island National Park and Marine Park. Snapper Island is a popular tourism ...
The temple is located in the Melbourne suburb of Footscray, approximately 4km from the Melbourne CBD, and overlooks the Maribyrnong River. It is Australia's largest Taoist temple and includes a 50-foot (15 m) gold-painted stainless steel statue of Mazu imported from Nanjing , China and installed in 2008, with the statue the second of its kind ...
Willis Island is the only permanently inhabited island in the Coral Sea Islands Territory, an external territory of Australia, located beyond the Great Barrier Reef in the Coral Sea. The island is located some 450 kilometres (280 mi) east of Cairns, Queensland. It is the southernmost of the Willis Islets, a group of three islands which with ...
The resort's 147 ha (360 acres) site is adjacent to Four Mile Beach, Port Douglas. At its core is a group of multistorey buildings flanked by a "sprawling network" of 10 "lagoons". The site also includes tennis courts, an 18-hole golf course, the Kaia day spa and a gymnasium.
This is a list of ports in Australia. It includes all gazetted ports , harbours , havens , roadsteads and marinas . This list is complete with respect to the 1996 Gazetteer of Australia . [ 1 ]