Townsville

Townsville (: 95464 inhabitants) is a city (" city") north-eastern coast of the Australia, located in the state of the Queensland. The area of Townsville is sometimes called Twin Cities (the Twin Villes ), because the zone includes the towns of Townsville (on the southern coast and part of the area) and Thuringowa (inside the grounds and the northern part of the area).

History

The city owes its existence to the captain Robert Towns who gave the authorization to James Melton Black to build a pier in the Baie of Cleveland to export the lately high cattle inside the area. The existence of the city was recognized with the Australian Official journal in 1865 and Townsville was declared " City " in 1903. It is now more the tropical big city of Australia and she is regarded as the semi-official capital of the north of radiant Queensland on a vast surrounding sector.

Economy

  • - Townsville is located in the center section of the Grande barrier of coral, but as the barrier is with 50 Kilometers of the littoral, possibiltés of the development tourist ones are limited. It is the town of Cairns, more in north, nearer to the barrier which receives most of the tourists.

  • - If tourism lately started to help the expansion of the city, Townsville continues to be an important industrial port to export minerals of Mont Isa and Cloncurry, the Bovin S and the Laine coming from the Western plains, the Sucre and the Bois of the coastal regions.

  • it city has also its own industries. Townsville is the only city to refine three rough metals: the Nickel, the Zinc and the Copper.

    • it nickel is imported of Indonesia, the Filipino and New Caledonia and is treated with the refinery " Yabulu Nickel" , with 30 kilometers in the north of the port.
    • it zinc ore is transported by rail since the mine " Carrington" , in the south of Cloncurry, to be molten in the south of Townsville to the refinery " Sun Metals" , property of " Korea Zinc".
    • coppers it gross foundry of " Isa" mount; is also conveyed by rail with Townsville for an additional refining with the copper refinery of Stuart.

Transport

Townsville is an important node of communications:

  • the Bruce Highway (the principal coastal highway) crosses the city, and the Western principal highway towards the Mont Isa and the Territoire of North, the Flinders Highway , crosses just the Bruce Highway in the south of Townsville.

  • In the same way, the Great Northern Railway ( Great Railway of North ) passes by the city, and the western railways cross in the south of the city.

  • Townsville has an important port with the mouth of the river Ross . The principal goods forwarding by the port are:

    • ores and the metals produced in the foundries of the area.
    • sugar with three warehouses of storage, of which most recent is the largest warehouse of storage covered with Australia.

The Rivière Ross passes by Townsville, but is navigable only by small boats

  • the international airport of Townsville with Garbutt was aggrandi by the American forces during the Second world war and was rebuilt several times.

Centers

Townsville has several great public centers because of its geographical location and its population
  • the University James Cook, the only university of the north of Queensland,
  • the laboratory CSIRO,
  • the general headquarter of the Australian Institute of Maritime Science,
  • the military base of " Lavarack Barracks"
  • the base of the air force of " Garbutt".
The personnel of education and defense injects a considerable quantity of money in the local economy.

Tourist places

Among attractions of the city, one finds:

  • The Strand , a long band maintained well beach and garden,

  • Reef HQ , large a tropical Aquarium comprising many species of fauna and flora of the Large coral barrier,

  • the Museum off Tropical Queensland ( Museum of Tropical Queensland ), built around an exposure of relics of the British man-of-war HMS Pandora ,

  • Magnetic Island , a large neighbouring island, covered mainly by a national park.

The historical sea front on Ross Creek, driving inside bay of Cleveland, has some beautiful old constructions mixed with a modern habitat, the whole dominated by the hill (300m) of red granite " Castle Hill". At its top an observatory giving is a panoramic sight on the city and its suburbs including Bay of Cleveland and " Magnetic Island".

Demography

To the wire of time, Townsville extended towards the west, moving away from the coast towards the old rural area of Thuringowa. With the last Census, Thuringowa was the town of Australia having more the strong growth. However, the recent events in the disinherited districts of Townsville change the demographic future again.

New suburbs and demography in evolution of the " Twin Cities" debates caused among the inhabitants to decide if the Center-ville would remain directly on the coast or would be moved towards the interior of the continent. The competition between the two cities and the presence of great centers on the coast feed the debate.

Policy

In October 2000 an peace agreement for the the Solomon Islands was negotiated in Townsville.

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