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In 1967, it was relocated to its present site in Zunker Street. In 1977, the Methodist Church entered into an amalgamation to create the Uniting Church in Australia; the church then became known as Burnett Heads Uniting Church. [21] Burnett Heads Post Office opened by 1919 (a receiving office had been open from 1888), closed in 1924 and ...
Point Danger Light, also known as the Captain Cook Memorial Light, is an active lighthouse located on Point Danger, a headland between Coolangatta and Tweed Heads, marking the border between Queensland and New South Wales, Australia. It lays claim to be the first lighthouse in the world to experiment with laser as a light source. [4]
The Bundaberg central business district is situated along the southern bank of the Burnett River, about 20 km (12 mi) from its mouth at Burnett Heads, and flows into the Coral Sea. [3] The city is sited on a rich coastal plain , supporting one of the nation's most productive agricultural regions.
The old tower was moved to Burnett Heads together with the old apparatus from Cowan Cowan Point Light, and is now known as the Old Burnett Heads Light, [1] while the old apparatus was refurbished and installed at Cleveland Point Light. [4] A 1909 listing describes the tower as a wooden tower, carrying a fixed fourth order dioptric apparatus.
Shepherd Memorial Church of St Peter is a heritage-listed Anglican church at the corner of Drake Street and Wondai Road, Proston, South Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Fowell, McConnel and Mansfield and built from 1937 to 1939 by Lesleigh George Windmell Smith.
The lighthouse operated until 1971 when it was replaced by the New Burnett Heads Light. It was then relocated about 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) inland into Burnett River and restored. The concrete base and the steps of the lighthouse are still present next to the new tower. [7] The original fifth-order Fresnel lens is still mounted in the tower. [8]
Burnett Heads Road is a state-controlled district road (number 1751), rated as a local road of regional significance (LRRS). [2] [3] It runs from Bundaberg–Port Road in Burnett Heads to Zunker Street in Burnett Heads, a distance of 3.5 kilometres (2.2 mi). This road has no major intersections.
By 2013 the church had closed and there was a controversial proposal to convert it into a 16-bed backpacker hostel. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] In the 1950s, a new bulk sugar terminal was built without a rail link so sugar was transported from Wallaville by road instead of rail, leading to the closure of the railway in June 1964.