Rockhampton, Australia Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Straddling the Tropic of Capricorn, 100km north of Gladstone, ROCKHAMPTON was founded after a false goldrush in 1858 left hundreds of miners stranded at a depot 40km inland on the banks of the sluggish Fitzroy River ; their rough camp below Mount Archer was adopted by local stockmen as a convenient port. The iron trelliswork and sandstone buildings fronting the river recall the balmy 1890s, when money was pouring into the city from central Queensland's prosperous cattle industry and the gold and copper mines 40km west at Mount Morgan . Today, however, despite hosting a large university campus, Rockhampton … more »