1770 (Queensland)

1770 is the name of a village in Queensland, Australia, which is 120 km north of Bundaberg and 494 km from Brisbane. It is the only place whose name consists of numbers only and no letters from around the world.

Description

The place is located at a point, landed at the James Cook and his crew of the HMS Endeavour. On April 22, 1770, he landed at Botany Bay and for the second time on 24 May 1770 in Queensland on the Australian continent. The landing place is now at the small marina and is marked with a Erinnerungsmal. Originally it was known as Round Hill, which was amended on the occasion of the 200 th anniversary of this event in 1770. 1770 is on a peninsula at the Bustard Bay of the Coral Sea.

Today the village is a tourist destination with accommodation facilities, a restaurant, shop and a small marina. In the village only a few people live permanently living from tourism. There are tourist offers for water sports and walks, day trips by plane or boat to the Great Barrier Reef and other natural attractions such as islands, reefs, creeks and a lighthouse. Near the village there are the Deepwater National Park, Eurimbula National Park, Mount Colosseum National Park and Round Hill Nature Reserve.

Name

Although the town has given the name with the number in 1770, this was not accepted by all sides. So there are some directories in the letter sequence Seventeen Seventy, for example, as well as in the Geoscience Australia Post, the 4677 shows the site in letters after entering the zip code. This is also in the list of names of the newspaper The Australian that. There are now places both in Australia and overseas street names that begin with 1770 Queensland.