Townsville

Townsville,

city (1991 pop. 186,757), NE Queensland, Australia, on Cleveland Bay. It is a major port. Wool, hides, meat, copper, and sugar are the chief exports. Copper and sugar refining, meat and fish packing and freezing, and cement making are other industries. Within easy reach of the Great Barrier ReefGreat Barrier Reef,
largest complex of coral reef in the world, c.1,250 mi (2,000 km) long, in the Coral Sea, forming a natural breakwater for the coast of Queensland, NE Australia.
..... Click the link for more information. , it is an important tourist center. Townsville was founded in 1864; the neighboring city of Thuringowa was amalgamated with Townsville in 2008. James Cook Univ. (1970) is located there.

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Townsville

a city and port on the eastern coast of Australia, in the state of Queensland. Population, 76,500 (1973). Industry includes plants for the processing of meat, milk, fruit, and sugar. There are also copper-smelting, cement, and chemical plants. The city has a plant for the production of aluminum oxide that has a capacity of 2 million tons a year. Townsville exports concentrates, metals, meat, sugar, hides, and wool.

Townsville

a port in E Australia, in NE Queensland on the Coral Sea: centre of a vast agricultural and mining hinterland. Pop.: 119 504 (2001)

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Two days earlier Indian billionaire Gautam Adani flew into town, and after being warmly greeted by the Queensland premier, he announced the headquarters for his company's Carmichael coal project would be in Townsville. He spoke of the 'thousands' of jobs the mine would create (even though an Adani representative has admitted in court the company's real estimate is just 1,464 jobs).

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This paper is the first in a planned series of papers with the research aim to improve our understanding of the range of issues, elements and aspects of this regional development growth; and to identify what we can learn from this improved understanding to help Townsville tackle its current challenges.