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Jetty at Lucinda Point with Hinchinbrook Island in the background, circa 1905. Lucinda is located on the traditional lands of the Biyaygiri people. [10]The town was named after Lady Lucinda Musgrave, the wife of the Governor of Queensland, Sir Anthony Musgrave from 1883 to 1888, or the Queensland Government steam yacht, the Lucinda, that was in turn named after her.
The Queensland Premier, Sir Samuel Griffith, had taken Lucinda to Sydney and, on being elected chairman of the Constitutional Committee, made the yacht available. Between 27 and 29 March, Griffith, the South Australian Charles Kingston and Sir Edmund Barton from New South Wales finalised the draft constitution while cruising on the Hawkesbury ...
It is situated along the Cassowary Coast Queensland, Australia. The nearest capital city is Brisbane approximately 1,240 km to the south. Lucinda is 135 km or 1.5 hours drive north of Townsville being the closest North Queensland provincial city. Cairns a Far North Queensland provincial city is two and a half to 3 hours drive north from Cardwell.
The Queensland Government's steam yacht of 1884 was named Lucinda after Lady Musgrave [10] Lucinda, Queensland, is a small town, now bustling sugar terminal, near Ingham, Queensland [11] Lady Musgrave Island, an island located near the southern end of the Great Barrier Reef [12] Lady Musgrave Drive in Mountain Creek, Queensland; South Australia
Hinchinbrook Island (or Pouandai to the Biyaygiri people) [2] is an island in the Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. [3] It lies east of Cardwell and north of Lucinda, separated from the north-eastern coast of Queensland by the narrow Hinchinbrook Channel.
Channel and island seen from mainland. The Hinchinbrook Channel is a channel between the Australian mainland and Hinchinbrook Island.It runs for 44 km [1] between Oyster Point, just south of Cardwell, and Lucinda in Far North Queensland.
Lady Lucinda Musgrave in 1883, Courtesy of State Library of Queensland. Born Jeanie Lucinda Field (1833-1920), Lady Lucinda Musgrave was a prominent American-born promoter of women’s charitable projects in at least three British colonies, then in Britain of conservative politics, and the anti-suffrage movement.
The Central Queensland region borders South Australia and the Northern Territory, and contains the major centres of Rockhampton and Gladstone, the coastal areas and popular holiday destinations Yeppoon, Agnes Water and 1770, and well as the areas further west of the Barcaldine, Barcoo, Blackall-Tambo, Boulia, Diamantina, Longreach and Winton ...