Innisfail. The Innisfail railway station. Innisfail is the wettest town in Australia. The Spirit of Queensland train to Cairns is at the platform. The st tation was built around 1920. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Innisfail. The Innisfail railway station. Innisfail is the wettest town in Australia. The Spirit of Queensland train to Cairns is at the platform. The st tation was built around 1920. / denisbin
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| 説明 | The area around the flats of the Johnstone River were noted in Dalrymple’s report of 1873 when he was exploring for a land track to the Atherton Tableland goldfields for the QLD government. In 1880 Thomas Fitzgerald formed a company to form a sugar plantation on the Johnstone River. Investors in his company included the Sisters of Mercy from Brisbane and the Catholic Bishop James Quinn. Consequently, the town of Innisfail, when established was predominantly Catholic in religion. The town was named in 1882 as Geraldton but this was changed to Innisfail in 1920 to avoid confusion with the city of the same name in Western Australia. The 1882 town was boosted by the erection of a Colonial Sugar Refining Company sugar mill in 1881. The mill encouraged more sugar growers to the district. CSR over the next few years established sugar mills in MacKay, Goondi, and elsewhere. When Fitzgerald’s company failed the CSR sugar mill meant the district of Innisfail continued to flourish. Other mills were built in the area including the Mourilyan mill in 1892 and a Ryan Labor government mill in 1915. Innisfail was a preeminent sugar growing area. After World War One soldier settler sugar cane blocks were developed in the district too. To assist with the early growth of the sugar industry around Innisfail Kanaka labour from the Melanesian Islands was used here in the 1880s and 1890s. The White Australia Policy of 1901 saw the ending of Kanaka indentured labour at Innisfail and elsewhere. Kanaka workers were banned from 1904 and those already in QLD were gradually deported. When the railway crossed the Johnstone River in 1923 so did the first road bridge to link Townsville and Cairns. This was a period of much rebuilding in Innisfail as a cyclone in 1918 had devastated the town. The new structures were Art Deco in style and even today Innisfail is very much an Art Deco town! It now has 8,300 people. |
| 撮影日 | 2017-07-12 15:19:39 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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| カメラ | DSC-HX90V , SONY |
| 露出 | 0.033 sec (1/30) |
| 開放F値 | f/3.5 |