This article is about the port and the pastoral district in Gladstone Region. For the suburb in Rockhampton, see Port Curtis, Queensland.
Port Curtis is a both a port and a pastoral district in Queensland, Australia.[1][2] It is located off the coast of the present-day city of Gladstone and was the original name of the township. The Port Curtis pastoral district in and around Gladstone was gazetted on 23 March 1868.[2]
Port Curtis was the capital of North Australia, a short-lived British colony established in 1846 and extinguished the following year. North Australia consisted of modern day Northern Territory and Queensland north of 26th parallel.
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