The Strand Townsville

The Strand is a beach foreshore placed in Townsville, Australia. It is placed in the suburb of North Ward. The Strand has a view of the Port of Townsville and Magnetic Island, as well as to Cape Cleveland. Features within the place encompass a jetty, a leisure park, restaurants, cafes and pools. The Strand has been a part of Townsville's records for the reason that city changed into founded in the mid-19th century. The modern-day foreshore become opened in 1999 after the old foreshore changed into critically damaged and eroded after heavy rainfall and wind from Tropical Cyclone Sid in January 1998 and different monsoonal storms among 1997 and 1998.

It changed into moderately damaged by using Cyclone Tessi in April 2000. The Townsville City Council, Queensland State and Australian Federal Governments furnished an initial joint funding of around A$35 million for the improvement of the contemporary foreshore. An envisioned 80,000 humans grew to become out on the hole weekend, which included severa events together with a pyrotechnics and fireworks show, and a skyshow. The Strand changed into recently named Australia's cleanest Beach in 2008. This become the second one time the award turned into given to the seashore in five years. An Anzac Day march in 2009 attracted 20,000 people to The Strand.