Fraser Coast South Burnett Attractions
264 Kent Street - Maryborough
This building at 264 Kent Street was erected in 1875 and was occupied by J H Bliss, a watchmaker and jeweller, who specialised in the supply and repair of maritime chronometers, barometers, sextants and navigational instruments. This business served ...
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75 Mile Beach - Fraser Island
In the great tradition of many Australian place names, 75 Mile Beach on Fraser Island, was so named because it is approximately 75 miles long. Due to the constant movement of sea and sand, it's not always exactly 75 miles long, but then, ‘75.173 Mi ...
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Achievers Walk - Maryborough
The Maryborough Walk of Achievers in Richmond and Wharf Streets was developed in three years over five stages. These plaques honour their pioneers, Olympians, and people from Maryborough who, through their achievements, have gone on to become extrao ...
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Anzac Park and Ululah Lagoon - Maryborough
Once a favourite spot for aboriginal corroborees, the area is now a beautiful park, centred on the Ululah Lagoon. In 1852, the first land sales were held for the new town here, in a simple slab hut. Horse-drawn scoops were used to clear the lagoon to ...
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Artxdesign Fine Art Gallery - Hervey Bay
Artxdesign Fine Art Gallery is a small fine art gallery featuring local and international artists dedicated to a quality market. Paintings, hand-made art glass, photography, fine art jewellery and art books are all on display. An Artist is in resid ...
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Baddow House - Maryborough
Featured on Maryborough's Walk and Drive Tour - Recently restored to its original design, Baddow House was the third home built in the area by pioneer settler Edgar Aldridge. Edgar built the home for his wife Maria, a convict woman transported from ...
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Band Rotunda and Fairy Fountain - Maryborough
Miss Janet Melville bequeathed the Fairy Fountain and Band Rotunda in memory of her brother Andrew who was Mayor of Maryborough in 1863. The entire structure was imported from Scotland in 1890 after the Hon. A.H. Wilson MLA saw it at the Glasgow Exh ...
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Basin Lake Track - Fraser Island
No visit to Fraser Island is complete without visiting Central Station, which was the centre of forestry operations on the island until the 1960s. There are historic displays, old machinery and buildings, but the gem for bushwalkers is via a small ac ...
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Bauer and Wiles Memorial Fountain - Maryborough
Australia's only outbreak of the pneumonic plague was in Maryborough in 1905. This fountain, situated to the Lennox Street side of City Hall, is a memorial to the two Nurses Cecilia Bauer and Rose Wiles who courageously volunteered to nurse victims ...
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Birdwatching on the Fraser Coast - Hervey Bay
Hervey Bay and its environs offer abundant and diverse birdwatching opportunities with over 250 species identified. Every year thousands of migratory shorebirds visit Hervey Bay and the Great Sandy Strait from destinations as far away as Japan, Alask ...
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Cenotaph and Memorial Gates - Maryborough
The Maryborough Cenotaph was erected in 1922 with funds obtained by public subscription as a memorial to the fallen of the First World War. The memorial includes five Italian Carrara marble statues which portray the Army, Navy, Airforce and Nursing p ...
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Central State School - Maryborough
Featured on Maryborough's Walk and Drive Tour - The first building of Central State School is the Infants School which opened 1882. The single storey timber building originally had a shingle roof but this has been replaced with iron. However the lant ...
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Central Station - Fraser Island
Originally established as a forestry camp when there was logging on Fraser Island, Central Station's beautiful rainforest area houses a display explaining the development of the island and its various flora and fauna, an information centre and picnic ...
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Charlcombe - Maryborough
Featured on Maryborough's Walk and Drive Tour - Charlcombe was built for Stewart Corser in 1917 and originally had a tiled roof which had to be replaced following a hail-storm in 1966. This house contrasts with the workers cottage next door. Both of ...
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China World Restaurant - Hervey Bay
Open daily for lunch and dinner, the China World Restaurant offers smorgasbord, a la carte dining, take-away and home delivery menu's. Group bookings and lunch time specials are available and there is sure to be something to suit everyone's tastes. ...
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Criterion Hotel - Maryborough
The Prince of Wales, a single storey boarding house, first occupied this site. This was licensed as the Melbourne Hotel in 1864 but was destroyed by fire in 1878. A two story building was rebuilt here and the third story was added in 1882. The name w ...
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Custom House Hotel - Maryborough
Mr George Galbraith was the proprietor of Maryborough's Custom House Hotel when it was built in 1868. 1883 saw the Customs House extended. Its past elegance reflects the rapid growth of the port at the time of the 1867 Gympie gold rush. The hotel h ...
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Eli Creek - Fraser Island
Eli Creek, the largest creek on the eastern beach of Fraser Island, pours up to four million litres of clear, fresh water into the ocean every hour. Eli Creek is a popular picnic and swimming spot, with a boardwalk that follows the creek inland thro ...
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Elizabeth Park Rose Gardens - Maryborough
The Elizabeth Park Rose Gardens was the site of Maryborough's second official cemetery, which closed in 1873. As the town expanded the cemetery was deemed a public health risk, and by 1907, moves were made to remove headstones and remains to the new ...
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Ellena Street Pavement Art and Sculpture - Maryborough
Primary School students designed the pavers for the Ellena Street Pavement Art and Sculpture, with the theme being "I can find it in Maryborough". Maryborough born artist Susie Hansen designed the large sculpture in the street as a tribute to Marybor ...
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Engineers Arms - Maryborough
The current Engineer’s Arms building was built in 1889, by Mrs Dillane to replace the original 1870 building. The former hotel was designed to fit the wedge-shaped block. It is reminiscent of early pubs in Sydney associated with the waterfront. En ...
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Eskdale House - Maryborough
Featured on Maryborough's Walk and Drive Tour - Eskdale House is a two-storey brick home in Pallas Street. It had its own stables, green-houses, gymnasium and tennis court. Built in 1864, E.B.C Corser bought it in 1866; he entered State politics in ...
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Excelsior Band Hall - Maryborough
Maryborough’s modern Excelsior Band Hall replaces the earlier hall destroyed by fire in 1987. It was designed in Victorian Style to compliment the precinct. The Style selection also commemorates the length of time to which bands have added to the ...
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Fay Smith Wetlands - Maryborough
For a different type of experience, walk through one of the last remaining wetlands in the Maryborough area, Fay Smith Wetlands. There is a series of walking bridges and walking trails through the Fay Smith Wetlands, allowing visitors to enjoy the a ...
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Former Australian Joint Stock Bank - Maryborough
Featured on Maryborough's Walk and Drive Tour - This rendered brick building, the Former Australian Joint Stock Bank, was built in 1882 for the Maryborough Branch of the Australian Joint Stock Bank. The Union Bank occupied the building from 1906. The ...
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Former Flour Mill - Maryborough
The Maryborough Flour Mill was the most northerly flour mill in Australia when it was built in 1890, for the Maryborough Milling Company. In 1919, the Dominion Flour Milling Company who now owned the mill bought the remaining relic of Aldershot smelt ...
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Former Hotel Francis - Maryborough
Featured on Maryborough's Walk and Drive Tour - Former Hotel Francis is the site of the first hotel built in the new Maryborough Township in 1853, the Maryborough Inn. The current building, erected as a single storey in 1878, is the third hotel to oc ...
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Former Queens Hotel - Maryborough
Featured on Maryborough's Walk and Drive Tour - The original Queens Hotel was destroyed in the 1876 fire, and was rebuilt a few years later. The Goodwin family opened the first hotel here in 1864. In 1866, the proprietress, a young single woman saved ...
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Former Royal Bank of Queensland - Maryborough
The Royal Bank of Queensland opened its Maryborough branch in 1888 in this Kent Street building known as Windsor House. In 1922 the Royal Bank of Queensland merged with the Queensland National Bank. The building features the Baroque revival style ...
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Former Stuparts Building - Maryborough
Featured on Maryborough's Walk and Drive Tour - Mr Stupart purchased his first business in Maryborough in 1871, unfortunately he lost it all in the 1876 fire. He soon rebuilt the two-storey Criterion building, Former Stuparts Building, facing Kent St ...
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Fraser Island Great!Walk - Fraser Island
The stunning Fraser Island World Heritage Area is the setting for the Fraser Island Great! Walk that winds for 90 kilometres between Dilli Village and Happy Valley. Towering rainforests, crystal-clear lakes, coloured sands and vast sand dunes are jus ...
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Fraser Island, Great Sandy National Park - Fraser Island
Fraser Island, Great Sandy National Park is a wonderland which can take days to explore. Fraser Island, a World Heritage area, features huge dunes, wide ocean beaches and mighty rainforests growing on sand. Explore the rich cultural history of the Bu ...
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Gatakers Building - Maryborough
Featured on Maryborough's Walk and Drive Tour - Gatakers Building and the warehouse behind are the oldest surviving commercial buildings in Maryborough. Gatakers Building was built for Robert Travis in 1868, it and the warehouse located behind, beca ...
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Hervey Bay Go Kart Track - Hervey Bay
Established in 1990, the 650 metre Hervey Bay Go Kart Track is self drive from eight to 80 years. Tandem karts are available so Mum or Dad can take the younger ones for a ride. This is an activity the whole family can enjoy. There is a viewing plat ...
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Hervey Bay Historical Village and Museum - Hervey Bay
The Hervey Bay Historical Village and Museum features 19 historical buildings housing over 8,000 exhibits, from the Fraser Coast and Wide Bay area. These exhibits include a fully-furnished slab cottage, built in 1898, the Goodwood Railway Station, th ...
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J E Brown Warehouse - Maryborough
J E Brown commenced business as a provisions and victuals merchant in 1857 in Richmond Street. In 1879 J E Brown had this two-storey brick warehouse built and was designed by a local architect James Buchanan. In later years, the premises were used f ...
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Janets Art Books - Maryborough
Janet's Art is an experience not to be missed! It is an art gallery with local and interstate art and a stunning range of greeting cards; a gift shop with unique jewellery, stained glass, woodwork, silk and artefacts from around the world and a book ...
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Lake McKenzie - Fraser Island
There are many different aspects to Fraser Island, but the awe-inspiring beauty of Lake McKenzie makes it probably the most visited natural site on the island. It is a ‘perched’ lake, which means it contains only rainwater, no groundwater, is not ...
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Lake Wabby - Fraser Island
Lake Wabby is relatively close to the ocean side of Fraser Island and unlike the other lakes, it supports several varieties of fish. It is known as both a window lake and a barrage lake. Window lakes form when the ground level falls below the water t ...
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Lake Wabby Track - Fraser Island
The world's largest sand island, Fraser Island is an area of remarkable natural beauty. It was listed as a World Heritage Area in 1992. Lake Wabby is the deepest lake on Fraser Island. Its shore lies at the advancing edge of the Hammerstone Sandblow. ...
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Maheno Shipwreck - Fraser Island
The Maheno, the most famous of the Fraser Island wrecks, was driven ashore just north of Happy Valley during a cyclone in 1935. Once a well-known trans-Tasman liner, the Maheno was bound for a Japanese wrecking yard when she met her stormy end. Toda ...
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Mary Ann Steam Engine - Maryborough
The Mary Ann is a replica of the first steam engine built in Queensland in 1873 at John Walker and Co's Union Foundry. It steams through the park along the rail tracks which were laid to service the wharves and Walker's Foundry. The Mary Ann operates ...
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Mary Delicious - Maryborough
Step back in time as you enter Mary Delicious, an ice-cream parlour and milk bar specialising in home-made fudge and confectionery. The home made fudge comes in an impressive array of flavours to tempt the taste buds, including rocky road, Malteser, ...
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Mary Poppins Statue - Maryborough
Located on the corner of Kent and Richmond streets a statue of Mary Poppins stands proudly as recognition of Maryborough’s link with the famous nanny. PL Travers was born Helen Lyndon Goff in Maryborough in 1899. Mary Poppins has universal appeal. ...
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Mary River - Maryborough
The Mary River has been known by many names, with the Aborigines calling the river Booie, Moonaboola, Numabulla or Mooraboocoola. It was named the Wide Bay River until in September 1848, when Governor Fitzroy renamed the river in honour of his wife, ...
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Mary River Parklands - Maryborough
The historic Port of Maryborough area has been transformed into a stunning public park complete with outstanding public art works. The Mary River Parklands forms part of the historic Portside Precinct. It plays an integral role in the City's urban ...
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Maryborough Base Hospital - Maryborough
Featured on Maryborough's Walk and Drive Tour - The first public hospital outside Brisbane was established in Maryborough in 1856. This was replaced by a two storey building in Lennox Street in 1864. This present hospital was opened in May 1887 at a ...
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Maryborough Cemetery - Maryborough
The third official Maryborough cemetery was established in 1873 and burials were on a strictly denominational basis. The cemetery contains many fine examples of early Queensland monumental art. The Mortuary Chapel, was built 1883, and designed so hor ...
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Maryborough City Hall - Maryborough
Designed by Brisbane architects Hall and Dods in American colonial style, Maryborough City Hall was erected in 1908 to replace the original timber Town Hall which stood on the opposite side of Kent Street. The exterior was built with locally made Mer ...
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Maryborough City Whistle Stop Incorporated - Maryborough
Every Thursday, market day and on the last Sunday of each month, the Whistle Stop rail museum at the old Maryborough railway station is open with guided tours. A dedicated team of volunteers run the ‘Mary Train’. It operates every Thursday along ...
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