Where is gladstone queensland

The port of Curtis, which Gladstone is centered on was first found by Matthew Flinders in on his early voyage to circumnavigate and chart Australia. Despite its busy-ness, Gladstone has kept the balance between the needs of industry and the environment. There are nice beaches here, good for both swimming and surfing and plenty of opportunities to go fishing on the many waterways and open sea.

It is open from 7. There is a cafe in the gardens. It is impossible to miss. The village is well laid out and it is easy to get a copy of the very detailed description of each of the buildings - here is an example: "The Slab Hut - This area, about years ago, was an important gold mining district.

Hundreds of miners came from many parts of Australia to try their luck. They lived in tents and shanties. At the same time graziers settled here to provide the meat for the miners to eat. As graziers were permanent, they built for themselves houses that would last. This particular house was built in a goldrush area about 70 kilometres from here, right out in the bush.

To buy timber or bricks was difficult and very expensive so they made their houses out of split logs smoothed off with an adze. Many had dirt floors, but this one has a slab floor, which keeps beds and tables away from the damp. You can see by the cracks in the floors and walls that in winter time the wind would blow in and they were very cold. Mostly they stuffed these cracks with paper. Some graziers would build their roofs with wooden shingles also split from trees.

However, corrugated iron became available about the time this house was built in the late s so it was used instead as it kept the rain out much better. Generally the houses were quite cool in summer and although people didn't have much time to relax they used the deck chairs and would sit in them on the veranda and talk with friends whenever they had time to visit.

The village is staffed entirely by volunteers and is open daily from It is also home to a regular Country Market on the weekends, tel: 07 It is 8 km from the Bruce Highway. Stage 1 of the Awoonga High Dam was opened in and Stage 2 in It is the main water supply for the Gladstone region as well as being a hugely popular recreation area known for its lake and mountain views, its outstanding fishing, its popular caravan park and its numerous shelter sheds and barbecues, walking paths and playgrounds.

Enthusiastic anglers come to Lake Awoonga to catch the famed barramundi, of which the sign at one of the lookouts announces that 2,, have been released into the lake. The short waterway involved navigating a strait which was obstructed by submerged rock and passable only at high tide.

Intermittent blasting and dredging went on until the s in an attempt to improve access through the passage, with less than adequate results. Funds were spent on alternative harbours at Port Alma and Rockhampton, leaving Gladstone's population convinced they were being unfairly overlooked.

In the Gladstone Observer and Port Curtis Advertiser began publication, serving a population of Ten years later a hospital opened. In the railway was opened from Bundaberg giving the port a temporary advantage until the line was further extended to Rockhampton , along with the Gladstone Meat Works.

By Gladstone's population was about , and the town was described in the Australian handbook of that year:. Further impetus came in , with the opening of the Port Curtis Dairy Cooperative. After years of scrub clearing dairy farming had finally achieved critical mass, and the railway transported dairy produce to the factory. Gladstone remained convinced that it had the best potential shipping harbour in central Queensland.

The state government appointed the Gladstone Harbour Board in , and the town formed its own Gladstone Harbour League to lobby the Railways minister for fairer haulage rates and for freight from surrounding shires. Progress was slow, and the town's economic mainstays remained the Port Curtis dairy factory which achieved maximum production during the ss and the meat works.

Tourism was still a distant prospect, although Heron Island emerged as a local holiday destination in the s. Flying boats, bound for Singapore and connections to England called at Auckland Inlet from and a land aerodrome, jointly backed by Gladstone and Calliope Shire, opened in World War II years saw reduced throughput for the port.

Gladstone Regional Council would like to acknowledge the Byellee, Gooreng Gooreng, Gurang and Taribelang Bunda people who are the traditional custodians of this land. Gladstone Regional Council would also like to pay respect to Elders both past, present and emerging, and extend that respect to other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. All Rights Reserved. Powered by Jadu Continuum.