Hervey Bay

Hervey Bay is an inlet and a city in the Fraser Coast Region of Queensland, Australia. The city is arranged around 290 kilometers 180 mi or 3½ hours' expressway drive north of the state capital, Brisbane. It is a characteristic cove between the Queensland territory and adjacent Fraser Island. The neighborhood economy depends on tourism which is based fundamentally around whale viewing in Platypus Bay toward the north, ship access to Fraser Island, open recreational angling and sailing and the normal north-bound, quiet shorelines with wide undeveloped foreshore zones.

At June 2015, Hervey Bay had an expected urban populace of 52,288. At 1.2 percent, the 5-year normal yearly populace development is unassuming contrasted with 1.5 percent nationally. It has a middle age of 45, altogether higher than the national normal of 37. The indigenous Butchulla individuals are the customary occupants of Hervey Bay. The principal recorded European locating of Hervey Bay was made by James Cook while doing his running overview of the east bank of Australia, on 22 May 1770.

By twelve Cook's ship was in a position a little over most of the way over the opening of Hervey Bay heading for Bundaberg. At the point when Cook initially found Hervey Bay, he didn't understand that Fraser Island was isolated from territory Australia; Cook did not go sufficiently far south because of the shallow profundities of the waters in the Bay.