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From 1863 to 1906, the Wide Bay region became a central part of the Pacific Slave trade, with more than 12 thousand South Sea Islanders brought to the cotton and sugarcane plantations in Maryborough and Hervey Bay. [10] During World War II, the region operated a training school for the Z Special Unit special forces. Hervey Bay boomed from the ...
European settlement at Hervey Bay began with the establishment of the pastoral run Dalgaroom (16,000 acres (6,500 ha)) in the mid-1850s, and timber-getting commenced in the district in the mid-1860s. Dalgaroom run was reduced to 14,000 acres (5,700 ha) and renamed Toogoom, which was later resumed and surveyed as farming portions from 1870. [ 2 ]
Pine Creek Airfield was an emergency landing ground at Pine Creek, Northern Territory, Australia during World War II. Civil airfield extended by B Company and HQ Detachment of the 808th Engineer Aviation Battalion between 11 May 1942 to 16 July 1942. The runway was 6,000 ft × 100 ft (1,829 m × 30 m) wide. [1]
On 20 December 1975, the Shire of Burrum was renamed the Shire of Hervey Bay with effect from the local government elections of 27 March 1976. With the new focus on the coastal region, 1,086.4 km 2 (419.5 sq mi) of its area, with an estimated population of 1,119, was annexed by the City of Maryborough , while 1,269.0 km 2 (490.0 sq mi) with an ...
MacDonald Airfield, sometimes recorded as McDonald Airfield, was an airfield built alongside the former northern road, west of Stuart Highway, north of Pine Creek, Northern Territory, Australia during World War II. [1] It is nearby to the Pine Creek Airfield.
Z Special Unit (/ z ɛ d /) was a joint Allied special forces unit formed during the Second World War to operate behind Japanese lines in South East Asia.Predominantly Australian, Z Special Unit was a specialist clandestine operation, direct action, long-range penetration, sabotage, and special reconnaissance unit that included British, Dutch, New Zealand, Timorese and Indonesian members ...
Corunna Downs Airfield was a secret Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) base at Corunna Downs, 40 km (25 mi) south of Marble Bar in the Pilbara region of Western Australia during World War II. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In 1942 the RAAF built a secret airbase on Corunna Downs Station , adjacent to the 1891 homestead.
Mungalalu Truscott Airbase or Truscott-Mungalalu Airport (IATA: TTX, ICAO: YTST), which during World War II was known as Truscott Airfield (or usually just simply referred to as Truscott) is today a commercial airport in the remote Kimberley region of Western Australia.