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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 ]
The port was a wharf for the Moneyspinner silver mine at Fire Lake which operated for a few years. Regular steamboat traffic to Port Douglas from Georgia Strait and New Westminster via the Fraser River ended in the 1890s, although the town was already in decline, only a handful of non-native residents remained. In the 1970s, a large logging ...
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.
Port Douglas Wharf and Storage Shed were erected in 1904 for the Douglas Shire Council, the buildings reported demolished by the cyclone of 1911, [2] with extensions to the storage shed made in the 1920s. [1] Port Douglas was established in 1877 as a port to service the newly opened Hodgkinson Goldfield, west of the Great Dividing Range. In the ...
Port Douglas Court House Museum is a heritage-listed former courthouse and now museum at 25 Wharf Street, Port Douglas, Shire of Douglas, Queensland, Australia.It was designed by the Queensland Colonial Architect's Office and built from 1879 by Thomas Watson.
Port Douglas was established as a port in 1877 to service both the booming goldfields west of the Daintree range, and to support the growing agricultural district. Christie Palmerston, William Little and indigenous guide, Pompo, cleared a route, known as the Bump Track, from the Hodgkinson goldfield to Island Point, which would become the port.
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 functioned primarily as a port for the mining hinterland and secondarily as an administrative and service centre for the surrounding developing agricultural districts. [1]
Port Douglas Wharf; S. St Mary's by the Sea, Port Douglas; Sheraton Grand Mirage Resort, Port Douglas This page was last edited on 3 October 2018, at 20:09 (UTC). ...