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The Willows Sports Complex, currently known as Dairy Farmers Stadium due to sponsorship rights, is a grass football stadium situated in Townsville,... Queensland, Australia. It has historically been used mainly for rugby league, and is the home ground of the National Rugby League club the North Queensland Cowboys. It has also been used for rugby union. For sponsorship reasons, the stadium was previously known as Stockland Stadium and Malanda Stadium . Prior to 1995, the stadium site was occupied by the Willows Sporting Complex. It hosted trotting paceway nights, and was the main pacing venue for the Townsville District. With the admission of the North Queensland Cowboys to the Australian Rugby League competition in 1995, the Willows site was transformed into a basic rugby league venue with a western grandstand as well as eastern side terraces. The northern and southern ends were sloped grass hills. The Willows Sports Complex was renamed 'Stockland Stadium' in 1995 through sponsorship linked with the North Queensland Cowboys. A contract was signed by the Stockland Trust Group for three years giving them the naming rights of the venue.
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Townsville Entertainment and Convention Centre is an indoor sports arena, located in Townsville, Queensland, Australia. The capacity of the arena is... 5,257 and was built in 1993. It is the home arena of the Townsville Crocodiles basketball team.
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Bay Rock Light is an inactive lighthouse which used to be located on Bay Rock, a rocky islet northwest of Magnetic Island, about 20 kilometres north... of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. First lit in 1886, it was automated in 1920 and deactivated in the 1980s. It was relocated in 1992 to the Townsville Maritime Museum, where it is now displayed. Bay Rock Light was first lit in 1886. It was originally located on Bay Rock, at location 19°7′0″S 146°45′12″E / 19.116667°S 146.75333°E / -19.116667; 146.75333, its main use being assisting vessels into a quarantine station on West Point, Magnetic Island. It also assisted passage into Cleveland Bay or to a main shipping anchorage off Bay Rock. The lighthouse was 8 metres high, made of a timber frame clad with zinc-annealed galvanized corrugated iron sheets. It was the fourth in a group of eight lighthouses made of hardwood frame clad with corrugated iron, which included, by order of establishment Little Sea Hill Light, Grassy Hill Light, Goods Island Light, itself, Old Caloundra Light, North Point Hummock Light , Gatcombe Head Light and Bulwer Island Light.
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Cape Cleveland Light is an active lighthouse located on the northern tip of Cape Cleveland, a promontory projecting into the Coral Sea west of... Cleveland Bay and about 40 kilometres east of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. The lighthouse marks the northern point of the Cape, and the entrance to Cleveland Bay. Cape Cleveland was named by Captain James Cook in 1770, either in honour of a John Clevland the Secretary to the Admiralty around that time, or after Cleveland, England where he was born. The need for a lighthouse at Cape Cleveland arose with proclamation of Cleveland Bay as a port of entry in 1865, and the development of Townsville into a major port. From its beginning, the lighthouse was closely related to the Dent Island Light. The construction of both lighthouses was recommended by Commander George Poynter Heath, the Chairman of the Queensland Marine Board, in February 1878. The lighthouses were formally approved in April 1878 and tenders for the construction of both stations, each including a lighthouse and two keepers' cottages, were called in May 1878 and closed in June 1878. The tenders were awarded to W. P.
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Madge Ryan was an Australian film, theatre and television actress. She was born in Townsville, Australia. Already an established theatre actor in... Sydney, Australia, she emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1957 and starred in many British stage shows. She also made over sixty appearances in films and on television. In 1958, she appeared in a Broadway-theatre production of Summer of the 17th Doll. She died in London, United Kingdom, at age 75.
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