Alligator Creek
The rural/residential locality of Alligator Creek, approximately thirty kilometres southeast of Townsville in Bindal country, takes its name from the creek that rises in the Muntalunga Range (Mount Elliot) and flows into Cleveland Bay. The creek forms the western boundary of the 55,300-ha Bowling Green Bay National Park.
Archaeological sites associated with the traditional owners in the area have been dated back to 10,000 BP, and the BIndal people hosted shipwrecked sailor James Morrill for much of his time as a castaway between 1846 and 1863.
After European settlement, the Queensland Meat Export Company established a short-lived meatworks on Alligator Creek in 1879. After the North Queensland Meat Export Company restarted the works ten years later as a boiling-down operation, it switched to exporting frozen beef using machinery from the cyclone-damaged works on Poole Island in Port Denison. After another update with a prefabricated structure in 1914, they closed, along with the nearby township of Oolbun's post office, in 1966.
Sources:
Queensland Places: https://queenslandplaces.com.au/alligator-creek-%28near-townsville%29
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alligator_Creek,_Queensland_(Townsville)
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Alligator Creek (Stream)
Bindal
Bowling Green Bay National Park
Cleveland Bay
James Morrill
Mount Elliot
Muntalunga RangeOolbun
Poole Island
Queensland Meat Exporting Company
Townsville
