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  2. Townsville - Wikipedia

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    Townsville hosted the popular Japanese national rugby union team. Tony Ireland Stadium, in the suburb of Thuringowa, has an international standard cricket and AFL stadium. Townsville was a host city for the preliminary rounds of the men's (Pool B) and women's (pool A) Basketball competition for the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games. [113] [114]

  3. Lands of Tour and Kirkland - Wikipedia

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    The traditional site therefore of another 'tower', Kilmaurs Castle, as opposed to Kilmaurs Place, is located to the north-east of Tour, just off the entrance to Jocksthorn Farm that connects with the Stewarton road via Grassmillside Farm and Shaw Bridge. [17] The map by Timothy Pont from circa 1600 marks Kirkland with no reference to Tour. [18]

  4. Manbarra - Wikipedia

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    The Manbarra have not been given legal status as traditional owners of the Palm Islands, as the people known as the Bwgcolman, drawn from over 40 tribes on the mainland and Torres Strait Islands, were forcibly moved to the Palm Island Aboriginal Settlement from 1918 onwards, and it is their descendants (the "historical people", who now inhabit ...

  5. Robert Towns - Wikipedia

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    After a number of subsequent owners, his home Cranbrook House would become Cranbrook School. On Sunday 1 November 1964, a monument commemorating the "100th Anniversary of Settlement in Townsville" was unveiled on The Strand in Townsville with particular mention made of four men: Robert Towns, Andrew Ball, Mark Watt Reid and John Melton Black. [57]

  6. Hermit Park, Queensland - Wikipedia

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    Hermit Park is situated in the traditional Wulgurukaba Aboriginal country. [4] The origin of the suburb name Hermit Park is from the residence of a business owner Leopold Ferdinand Sachs. [2] The Suburban Bowling Club was established in 1923 on the corner of Charters Towers Road and Carr Street, the second to be established in Townsville.

  7. List of Scottish clans - Wikipedia

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    Clan map of Scotland The following is a list of Scottish clans (with and without chiefs ) – including, when known, their heraldic crest badges, tartans , mottoes , and other information. The crest badges used by members of Scottish clans are based upon armorial bearings recorded by the Lord Lyon King of Arms in the Public Register of All Arms ...

  8. Yabulu, Queensland - Wikipedia

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    Yabulu is approximately 25 kilometres (16 mi) by road north-west of the Townsville CBD. [ 4 ] The suburb is bounded to the north-east by Halifax Bay (part of the Coral Sea ), to the south-east loosely by Alick Creek, and to the south-west, west, and north-west by Althaus Creek ( 19°09′09″S 146°36′06″E  /  19.15250°S 146.60167 ...

  9. History of local government in Scotland - Wikipedia

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    Map of Scotland, c. 580–600. Pictish regions are marked in yellow. Cumbrian regions in white. Gaelic regions in green. Anciently, the territory now referred to as Scotland belonged to a mixture of Brythonic groups (Picts and Cumbrians) and Angles. The Picts were based north of the Forth–Clyde line, traditionally in seven kingdoms: Cat (the ...