Port Curtis (bay)

[1][2] It is located off the coast of the present-day city of Gladstone and was the original name of the township.

The Port Curtis pastoral district in and around Gladstone was gazetted on 23 March 1868.

[2] Port Curtis (the bay) was named by Matthew Flinders on 1 August 1802 after Vice Admiral Sir Roger Curtis of the Royal Navy.

Curtis had assisted Flinders with repairs to HMS Investigator in Cape Town in October 1801.

[1] Port Curtis was the capital of North Australia, a short-lived British colony established in 1846 and extinguished the following year.