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Gulf
Savannah
Towns
North
Queensland
(QLD)
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Karumba
Situated
on the
Norman
River
which
enters
the Gulf
through
a maze
of mangroves,
Karumba
is the
only Queensland
town on
the Gulf.
Burketown
Situated
on the
Albert
River,
the natural
dividing
line between
the northern
wetlands
and the
southern
grasslands.
Burketown
is home
to only
a small
number
of people.
Established
in the
1860s
as a supply
town for
cattle
farmers
it is
the oldest
town in
the Gulf
area and
has survived
cyclones,
epidemics
and yellow
fever.
Croydon
All that
remains
of this
historic
gold mining
town today
is just
a pub
and a
store.
Croydon
was a
boom town
last century
when the
area yielded
750 000
ounces
of gold
and 875
ounces
of silver.
The town
is the
eastern
terminus
of the
Gulflander
train
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