Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
Townsville is a city on the north-eastern coast of Queensland. It is in the dry tropics region of Queensland, adjacent to the central section of the Great Barrier Reef. James Cook visited the Towsnville region on his first voyage to Australia in 1770, but did not actually land there.
In 1819, Captain Phillip Parker King and botanist Alan Cunningham were the first Europeans to record a local landing. In 1846, James Morrill was shipwrecked from the Peruvian, living in the Townsville area among the Bindal people for 17 years before being found by white men and returned to Brisbane.
The Burdekin River’s seasonal flooding made the establishment of a seaport north of the river essential to the nascent inland cattle industry. The first party of settlers, led by W. A. Ross, arrived in Cleveland Bay from Woodstock Station on 5 November 1864. In 1866 Robert Towns visited