Douglas
in Townsville of Queensland, Australia
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Great Barrier Reef (Unesco heritage, 9.923 mi)
- Decimal Coordinates (Latitude, Longitude):
- 0.000 and 0.000 (Lat./Lng.)
- Coordinates by Time:
- N 0° 0' 0" and E 0° 0' 0"
- Currency and Currency Code:
- Dollar - AUD
- Spoken languages:
- English
- Local electricity:
- Mobile phone / cellular frequencies (MHz):
- Local Time: 03:01 AM (Monday)
- Timezone: Australia/Brisbane
- UTC/GMT offset: 9.5 hours
- Sunrise and Sunset:
- 6:43 am and 6:50 pm
- Antipode Coordinates:
- 17.050 and -25.333 (Lat./Lng.)
- Closest place to antipode coordinates:
Botija - References
- This place on Geonames.org
Delve into Douglas
The district Douglas of in Townsville (Queensland) is a subburb in Australia about 1,112 mi north of Canberra, the country's capital town.
If you need a hotel, we compiled a list of available hotels close to the map centre further down the page.
While being here, you might want to pay a visit to some of the following locations: Bowen, , , and . To further explore this place, just scroll down and browse the available info.
Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 28°C / 82 °F
| Morning Temperature | 24°C / 74 °F |
| Evening Temperature | 27°C / 81 °F |
| Night Temperature | 25°C / 78 °F |
| Chance of rainfall | 1% |
| Air Humidity | 64% |
| Air Pressure | 1014 hPa |
| Wind Speed | Moderate breeze with 10 km/h (7 mph) from West |
| Cloud Conditions | Scattered clouds, covering 36% of sky |
| General Conditions | Light rain |
Monday, 25th of November 2024
28°C (83 °F)
25°C (77 °F)
Sky is clear, moderate breeze, clear sky.
Tuesday, 26th of November 2024
29°C (84 °F)
25°C (78 °F)
Scattered clouds, moderate breeze.
Wednesday, 27th of November 2024
29°C (84 °F)
26°C (78 °F)
Light rain, gentle breeze, clear sky.
Hotels and Places to Stay
Jacana Apartments
Mercure Townsville
City Oasis Inn
Chifley Plaza Townsville
Comfort Inn Robert Towns
Comfort Inn Robert Towns
Central Kensington Apartments
Itara Apartments
Q Resorts Paddington
Central Holborn Apartments
Videos from this area
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Burdekin, Townsville
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Cairns Road Trip Day 1
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Walk Around Ross River with NIK - Six Figure Mentors
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3D signs being painted on a football field
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Pressure cleaning of Stockland Townsville
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Cairns Road Trip Day2 Part 1
A quick trip up the Captain Cook Highway from Cairns to Port Douglas. I wish I could show the whole trip but you get the idea. According to the bike shop owner I visited, some of the best...
Cairns Road Trip Extra
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LOZAROK Shit for free LIVE
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Yes, this is the same as the other vid, but I won't let youtube crop the top this time.
Legacy ride 2013
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
James Cook University
James Cook University (JCU) is a public university based in Townsville, Queensland, Australia. The university has three Australian campuses in Townsville, Brisbane and Cairns respectively, and an international campus in Singapore. JCU is the second oldest university in Queensland—proclaimed in 1970—and the first tertiary education institution in North Queensland. JCU is one of only seventeen Australian universities that were listed in the ARWU top 400 academic world universities in 2008.
Annandale, Queensland
Annandale is a suburb of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. It borders the southern side of Ross River. It is the biggest suburb of Townsville and thus the most populated in the city. It was the biggest planned Housing development in Townsville City, which started construction in the mid-1970s and was completed in early 2005, Annandale is one of Townsville's newest suburbs and is home to some of Townsville's wealthy, who live more toward the riverbank.
City of Thuringowa
The City of Thuringowa was a city and local government area in North Queensland, Australia covering the northern and western parts of what is now Townsville. The suburb of Thuringowa Central is the main business centre in this area. Thuringowa was named after the German region of Thuringia where the shire's first chairman, John von Stieglitz originated. Prior to its proclamation as a city on 1 January 1986, Thuringowa was a large rural shire, almost surrounding the City of Townsville.
Ryan Catholic College
Ryan Catholic College is a combined, co-educational, primary and secondary school in what is now the City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. It was established by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Townsville in 1979. Ryan is the largest catholic school in Townsville. It currently has over 1900 enrolments and employs approximately 200 teachers. It is unique in the fact that students are not required to address their teachers by their prefixes and last names.
Ignatius Park College
Ignatius Park College in Townsville, Queensland, Australia, is part of the network of Edmund Rice schools which operates under the direction of the Congregation of Christian Brothers. The school was established in 1969 at its current location in Cranbrook, though it was built as a successor school to Our Lady's Mount, the former Catholic boys' secondary that was located in Stanton Hill. The College has a student population of 850 boys from grades 8 to 12.
Douglas, Queensland
Douglas is a suburb of Townsville, Queensland, Australia south of the Ross River and west of the city centre. Though mainly residential, it does contain James Cook University and the Townsville Hospital. The suburb is also known due to the Douglas Arterial Road which is a thoroughfare single-carriageway motorway through the suburb, also the first stage of the Townsville Ring Road.
Stockland Townsville
Stockland Townsville Shopping Centre is centrally located in Aitkenvale within the urban area of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. The shopping centre is Townsville's largest shopping centre. In 1987 Stockland Townsville opened after a major upgrade to what was previously known as Nathan Plaza (named after the street the centre ran along).
Willows Shopping Centre
Willows Shopping Centre is a sub-regional shopping centre, located in Kirwan, a suburb of Townsville, Queensland. It is one of Townsville's largest shopping centers with a total of 130 retail stores. An Australian Breastfeeding Association five-star-rated parents' room is provided, complete with children's play area, as well as a state of the art new male, female and disabled room facilities.
Mount Stuart, Queensland
. Mount Stuart is located in Queensland, Australia, overlooking Townsville with an elevation of 584 metres. It was named for Clarendon Stuart (1833–1912), from 1859 Townsville's first district surveyor. Mount Stuart is used for commercial and ABC Queensland television transmission, it was also used as a Bureau of Meteorology radar station until late 2011, where it was moved to Hervey Range.
Kirwan, Queensland
Kirwan is a suburb of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. Kirwan includes parks, shopping, Kirwan State High School and private schools as well as the Riverway complex which has a great deal of entertainment from swimming, barbecues and family outings to cultural events including an art gallery and night markets.
Kirwan State High School
Kirwan State High School is a coeducational state school located in Kirwan, Queensland, Australia, approximately 12 kilometres from the Townsville CBD. It has 2,304 students and over 120 teaching staff, making it the biggest high school in the state and the largest in North Queensland and The former Thuringowa city.
Riverway, Townsville
Riverway is a riverfront parkland attraction located in the Condon Suburb of Townsville that opened in July 2006. It stretches along 11 km of the Ross River, with areas at Pioneer Park, Loam Island, Apex Park and Ross Park at the Ross River Dam. The areas of Riverway that have been completed are Pioneer Park and Loam Island. Riverway is connected directly to the Thuringowa Central business district via a pathway along the foreshore.
Thuringowa Central, Queensland
Thuringowa Central is a suburb and a commercial hub in western Townsville, Queensland. It was the central business district of the former City of Thuringowa before its amalgamation with the adjacent City of Townsville in 2008. While consisting of predominantly commercial buildings it also contains a residential subdivision. The suburb and surrounding area is often referred to by locals as The Willows - Willows Shoppingtown in Kirwan is a nearby major retail centre.
Condon, Queensland
Condon is a suburb in Townsville, Queensland, Australia. Condon is part of the Upper Ross District and is the first of three suburbs along Riverway Drive. Condon's first residential development was in 1968; it was named after the Condon family (William Condon) who had settled on the Ross River and had a dairy farm. Townsville's motor way runs through Condon. Thuringowa State High School is also in this suburb.
Kirwan Health Campus
Kirwan Health Campus is a hospital and health service located in the suburb of Kirwan, Queensland, Australia, and is the main health facility serving residents in the City of Townsville, about 12 kilometres west of the Townsville CBD. The Kirwan Health Campus offers a range of specialist services and is not an emergency or general hospital, such services are provided out of the Townsville Hospital in nearby Douglas.
The Palmetum, Townsville
The Palmetum is one of three botanical gardens of Townsville, Queensland. The Palmetum are located in the suburb of Annandale, near the Ross River, James Cook University and the Townsville Hospital.
Anton Breinl Centre
The Anton Breinl Centre for Public Health and Tropical Medicine (Anton Breinl Centre or the ABC) is a constituent discipline of the School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences, James Cook University, and specialises in public health and tropical medicine. The Anton Breinl Centre is one of only eight internationally recognised centres of excellence in tropical medicine worldwide and one of two in the Asia-Pacific Region.
Aitkenvale Aerodrome
Aitkenvale Aerodrome was an aerodrome located 10 km southwest of Townsville, Queensland, Australia near Aitkenvale Weir on the banks of the Ross River. It was also known as Weir and Aitkenvale Weir. The aerodrome was constructed in 1942, during World War II, for the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) as part of a group of airfields to be used as aircraft dispersal fields in the event of Imperial Japanese attack on the Townsville area.
James Cook University School of Medicine and Dentistry
The School of Medicine and Dentistry is a constituent body of the James Cook University.
Cranbrook, Queensland
Cranbrook is a suburb of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. It one of many suburbs located within the Geographical Centre of the Urban area of Townsville, though it is located 8 km South-West of the Townsville CBD. It is close to the Aitkenvale Business District.
Tony Ireland Stadium
The Tony Ireland Stadium is an international standard AFL and cricket stadium in Thuringowa Central, Townsville, Australia. The stadium is a part of the Riverway sporting and cultural complex.
James Cook University School of Business
The School of Business is a constituent of James Cook University which is responsible for Accounting, Economics, Business, Tourism, Marketing, Management, Development and Information Technology disciplines offered by James Cook University. The School of Business is located between the University's Cairn's Campus and Douglas Campus. The head of the school is Professor David Low.
Annandale State School
Annandale State Primary School is a large school situated in the Townsville suburb of Annandale. The suburb is located on the southern approaches to Townsville across the road from Lavarack Barracks and is also bordered by Ross River. Annandale was established in 1998 and boasts landscaped grounds surrounding fully airconditioned buildings. All buildings are also cabled for Internet access. A major project during 2005/6 was the completion of a roof over the school's two tennis courts.
James Cook University School of Law
The School of Law is a constituent body of James Cook University, and is the only regional law school in Queensland. The JCU Law School offers a comprehensive course that provides entry to the legal profession. The first-year experience has four compulsory non-substantive courses and two substantive courses designed for a staggered introduction to the LLB.
Pinnacles Gallery
Pinnacles Gallery is a dynamic art space located within the Riverway Arts Centre at Riverway, Townsville, with a mission "to make sure its programs are contemporary, engaging, accessible, interactive and enjoyable". Artists can submit applications to have solo exhibitions of their work exhibited, and the gallery co-ordinates a number of group exhibitions in which artists can submit works.