Port Curtis is a both a port and a pastoral district in
Queensland
Queensland ( , commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a States and territories of Australia, state in northeastern Australia, and is the second-largest and third-most populous state in Australia. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Austr ...
, Australia.
It is located off the coast of the present-day city of
Gladstone
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In a career lasting over 60 years, he ...
and was the original name of the township. The Port Curtis pastoral district in and around Gladstone was gazetted on 23 March 1868.
History
Port Curtis (the bay) was named by
Matthew Flinders
Captain (Royal Navy), Captain Matthew Flinders (16 March 1774 – 19 July 1814) was a British Royal Navy officer, navigator and cartographer who led the first littoral zone, inshore circumnavigate, circumnavigation of mainland Australia, then ...
on 1 August 1802 after Vice Admiral Sir
Roger Curtis of the Royal Navy. Curtis had assisted Flinders with repairs to
HMS Investigator in
Cape Town
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in October 1801.
[
Port Curtis was the capital of North Australia, a short-lived British colony established in 1846 and extinguished the following year. North Australia consisted of modern day ]Northern Territory
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and Queensland
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north of 26th parallel.
See also
* Electoral district of Port Curtis
References
External links
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Bays of Queensland
Regions of Queensland
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