Bowen
Located on the 20th South parallel on Queensland's northeast coast, midway between Townsville and 990 kilometres north of Brisbane in Biri and Yuru country, Bowen is The North's oldest European settlement.
James Cook named Cape Gloucester, Holbourne Island, Edgecumbe Bay and Mount Upstart when he passed the area in early June 1770. Shipwreck survivor James Morrill visited the locality during his seventeen years as a castaway following the wreck of the Peruvian.
European settlers arrived in the area after Captain Henry Sinclair discovered Port Denison in 1859, and a Queensland government expedition identified the harbour as the best port on that stretch of coast.
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