Rockhampton

Rockhampton is a metropolis within the Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia. The envisioned city population of Rockhampton in June 2015 was 80,665, making it the fourth largest metropolis in the country outdoor of the cities of South East Queensland. And the 22nd largest metropolis in Australia. Rockhampton is one of the oldest towns in Queensland, and in Northern Australia. In 1853, Charles and William Archer found the Fitzroy River, which they named in honour of Sir Charles FitzRoy.

The Archer brothers took up a run close to Gracemere in 1855, and greater settlers arrived soon after enticed by way of the fertile valleys. The town of Rockhampton became proclaimed in 1858, and surveyed by Arthur F Wood and Francis Clarke, the chosen street design closely resembled the Hoddle Grid in Melbourne and consisted of a grid of huge bouleds and laneways which turned into uncommon in Queensland. Within the year gold become observed at Canoona, and led to the first North Australian gold rush.

This brought about an inflow of migrants that speedy converted Rockhampton into the second biggest port inside the nation. It changed into throughout this period that Rockhampton changed into nicknamed as the "City of the Three S's", of which were "Sin, Sweat, and Sorrow". Subsequent gold rushes at Mount Morgan Mine which became at the time one of the maximum efficient gold mines in the world, laid the principles for lots of the town's Victorian architecture.