Bathurst Bay

It is now a tourist attraction for Cape York Peninsula in northern Queensland, Australia, near the Great Barrier Reef.

The British first settled Bathurst Bay sometime in the early-19th Century.

The settlement was destroyed on 4 March 1899, when Cyclone Mahina passed through northern Queensland.

The once-abundant forests have not regrown, mainly because of continuing salt damage to the land by the storm surge.

Since the Federation of Australia in 1901, Bathurst Bay has become a popular fishing area.