Hervey Bay Tourism, QLD Australia
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Hervey Bay Fast Facts
- State: QLD
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- Famous for/as: beaches
- Population: 76,403 (2011)
- Area: 2356 kmē (909.7 sq mi)
- Altitude: 19 m
- Language: English
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- Pincode: 4655
- STDCode: 07
Hervey Bay Info
227 Maryborough - Hervey Bay Road
Corner of Urraween Road
Hervey Bay
Queensland 4655 Australia
Hervey Bay, Australia Overview
Hervey Bay- pronounced Harvey Bay, was originally founded by Captain James Cook in 1770. At that present time, James Cook did not realize that Fraser Island was a separate piece of land to that of Australia. With the Hervey Bay waters being shallow, he did not travel far enough South to realize that these two pieces of land were in fact not joined. The name Hervey Bay comes from Lord Augustus Hervey, who was an admiral of The Blue, the Earl of Bristol and Captain Cook's boss at the time.
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Hervey Bay, Australia History
The indigenous Butchulla people are the traditional residents of Hervey Bay. The first recorded European sighting of Hervey Bay was made by James Cook while carrying out his running survey of the east coast of Australia, on the 22 May 1770. "By noon Cook's ship was in a position a little over half-way across the opening of Hervey Bay heading for Bundaberg. Cook named the bay "Hervey's Bay" after Augustus John Hervey (1724–1779), later Third Earl of Bristol, a naval officer who became a Lord of the Admiralty the year Endeavour returned".
Until around the mid 1980's the area was serviced by a rail link from the Main North Coast line that diverted from Aldershot and went through Takura, Walligan, Nikenbah then on to Pialba and Urangan. The line was a major freight point for the Port of Maryborough and for the sugar cane industry until road transport assumed the role.