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6 unusual facts about Townsville


Cymbiolacca

The largest species (reaching 140 mm in length) are Cymbiolacca thatcheri from reeftops in the Coral Sea and a population of Cymbiolacca intruderi from deep water outside the Great Barrier Reef north east of Townsville.

Deepwater stingray

Records of the deepwater stingray come from a number of locations scattered widely in the Indo-Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa and Mozambique, the Gulf of Mannar, the northern Andaman Islands, the South China Sea, the Ryukyu Islands and the Kyushu-Palau Ridge, northwestern Australia from the Rowley Shoals to Shark Bay, northeastern Australia from Townsville to Wooli, New Caledonia, and Hawaii.

Luca Bellisomo

In Australia, Bellisomo was student at The Cathedral School of St Anne & St James in the Australian town of Townsville, Queensland, and went on to play for the Queensland Academy of Sport, the Queensland U-17 state team, and the North Queensland schoolboys side.

Patchwork stingaree

The patchwork stingaree is a northern Australian endemic with a discontinuous range: the western population is found from the Houtman Abrolhos to Cape Leveque in Western Australia, and the eastern population from Caloundra to Townsville in Queensland.

Robert Logan Jack

Jack resigned his appointment in 1899, during his time there he mapped the coal sites in Bowen, Flinders River and Townsville.

Ron Withnall

Withnall was born in Townsville, Queensland, but attended school at Canterbury High School in Sydney.


2008 North Queensland Cowboys season

Sione Faumuina is involved in a single vehicle accident near the Lavarack Barracks in Townsville where he rolls his car and escapes unscathed.

Allied rock-wallaby

The allied rock-wallaby is found in the hinterland of Townsville, and also on Magnetic and Palm Islands.

Ben Rauter

Ben Rauter is a former student of Erindale College in Wanniassa, and is now a Police Constable in Townsville, Queensland.

Central Bureau

On 25 April 1942 the small RAAF Intercept Station operating in two back-to-back houses at 21 Sycamore Street and 24 French Street in the suburb of Pimlico in Townsville was given its new name of No. 1 Wireless Unit and became part of Central Bureau.

Coral Sea

Queensland has several major urban centres on the coast including Cairns, Townsville, Mackay, Rockhampton, Bundaberg, Sunshine Coast and the industrial city of Gladstone, which inevitably contaminate the sea.

David Bouveng

David Bouveng (born 6 February 1973) attended Padua College, Brisbane, Australia and played in the center for the school at the 1991 Confraternity Shield competition in Townsville.

Domain Central

The center is also directly adjacent, and connected to Harvey Norman Townsville, who is a major draw-card electronics and furniture retailer.

Electoral district of Mundingburra

Things became somewhat chaotic when Labor, on the basis of internal polling data and a legal case between Davies and the Commonwealth Bank, decided to drop Davies as its endorsed candidate, selecting Tony Mooney, the mayor of Townsville in his place.

Elliott Hagen

Stationed with the Royal Australian Regiment at Townsville, he left the Army two months before he was due to be deployed to Afghanistan.

Gerald Muench

In 2000, he joined the Interdisciplinary Centre for Clinical Research at the University of Leipzig, which he left in 2004 to take up a position as Senior Lecturer at James Cook University in Townsville.

German attacks on Nauru

The released prisoners were embarked onto the steamer Nellore on 29 December to be transported to Townsville in Queensland, where they arrived on 1 January 1941.

Greenvale, Queensland

An ore-carrying railway line ran between Greenvale and Queensland Nickel Industries (QNI) processing plant at Yabulu, approximately 20 km north of townsville from 1974 to 1993.

Hinchinbrook Island National Park

Cardwell is two hours drive north of Townsville being the closest North Queensland provincial city.

IsaKidd refining technology

The IsaKiddTM Technology is a copper electrorefining and electrowinning technology that was developed independently by Copper Refineries Proprietary Limited (“CRL”), a Townsville, Queensland subsidiary of MIM Holdings Limited (which is now part of the Glencore Xstrata group of companies), and at the Falconbridge Limited (“Falconbridge”) now-dismantled Kidd Creek refinery that was at Timmins, Ontario.

Lisa Millar

She next moved north to Townsville, where she worked for the regional television broadcaster, WIN TV, for a year, after which she crossed to the ABC as its North Queensland correspondent, covering a large area stretching from Torres Strait to the outback mining community of Mount Isa, and down to the Whitsunday island chain.

Longhead catshark

Records of the longhead catshark are patchy and widely spread in the Indo-Pacific region: it is known from the East China Sea, southern Japan, the Seychelles, the Philippines, Mozambique, New Caledonia, and northern Australia off Townsville, Ashmore Reef, and North West Cape.

Mount Zero-Taravale Sanctuary

Mount Zero-Taravale Sanctuary is a 600 km² nature reserve in north-east Queensland, Australia, 60 km north-west of Townsville.

Nelly Bay, Queensland

It was later alleged that the developer made an unrecorded donation to Townsville Mayor Tony Mooney's election campaign.

It is however known that Robert Hayles, a local entrepreneur, did start tourist ventures in the bay around 1911 and in 1917 correspondence between the Townsville Harbour Board and the Queensland Marine Department notes the existence of a jetty in the bay.

No. 3 Fighter Sector RAAF

In 1942, a new headquarters for No. 3FS was under construction at Wulguru, Queensland, Stuart, Townsville.

No. 40 Squadron RAAF

The service from Townsville to Port Moresby ended on 17 February and a new service between Port Moresby, Darwin, Karumba and Cains was established.

Operation Morris Dance

Company, 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment was added to this force on 23 May, with the soldiers being flown from Townsville to Norfolk Island and transferred by helicopter to Stalwart,Tobruk and Success.

Pam Foley

She was studying to be a nurse at Mater Hospital in Townsville, when she became paralysed from the waist down at the age of 19 after her new motorbike crashed over Castle Hill.

Queensland Pacific Airlines

It conducted services between the following centres: Brisbane, Bundaberg, Gladstone, Rockhampton, Mackay, Townsville, Blackwater, Thangool, Coolangatta and Newcastle.

Ray Crooke

He spent time in Townsville, Cape York and other parts of northern Australia during the Second World War.

Renewable energy in Australia

Adelaide, Townsville, Blacktown and Alice Springs are the first four solar cities announced in Australia.

SS Yongala

In the years that followed the disappearance of the Yongala, stories began to surface about a ghost ship, exactly resembling the Yongala, being frequently seen moving in the distance in seas between Bowen and Townsville.

The only body ever found was that of the racehorse Moonshine, washed up at the mouth of Gordon Creek, not far from Ross Creek, Townsville.

State of North Queensland

In 2013, social demographer Bernard Salt said Townsville would go from regional powerhouse to metropolitan city by 2026, and that there are less people living in the state of Tasmania than in North Queensland.

Steve Constanzo

Steve Costanzo (born January 22, 1988 in Ingham, Queensland) is an Australian professional basketball player who currently plays for the Townsville Heat in the Queensland Basketball League.

The Palmetum, Townsville

Townsville’s Japanese sister city Tokuyama funded the initial development of the Licuala Walk and Tokuyama Garden, which was completed in 1996.

Thorntons Gap

One such track over Herveys Range west of Townsville provided steep but usable access to the goldfields, particularly to Keelbottom Creek and the township of Dalrymple.

Tony Mooney

He and former Thuringowa Mayor Les Tyrell were forced to go head to head for the top position when Townsville and Thuringowa City Councils were amalgamated by the State Government.

Townsville Institute

Townsville Institute (Abbreviation: TI; Chinese: 城景高级中学) was one of the four original centralised institutes (CI) in Singapore and one of the pre-university centres in Singapore that offers a three-year curriculum leading to the Singapore Cambridge (UCLES) General Certificate of Education Advanced Level examination.

Townsville Kern United

Townsville Kern United also managed to attract several high profile players, such as Paul Wormley, who had previously played professional football in England for Barnsley.

Tropical antechinus

It is found in a small area of tropical vine forest from Paluma (near Townsville) to Mount Spurgeon (near Mossman) in northeastern Queensland, Australia.

William Hann

Obituary notice from The Queenslander, Brisbane, Saturday, 21 September 1889: "HANN--On the 5 April, William HANN, of Maryvale, North Queensland, accidentally drowned whilst bathing in the sea at Townsville, leaving a wife and two daughters to mourn the loss of an affectionate husband and loving father, aged 52."

William Villiers Brown

He was the member for Townsville in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1885 to 1888 and from 1891 to 1893, and a member of the Queensland Legislative Council from 1901 to 1915.

Yamada Nagamasa

Stories of Yamada burying his treasure on the east coast of Australia (and in particular, Magnetic Island off Townsville) persist but it is highly unlikely that Yamada would have ventured into that area as there were no trade routes in this region and the only ships to venture to this region were the ones blown off course during the summer storms.


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