Stuart, Queensland

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Stuart
Townsville, Queensland

Postcode(s)

4811

Suburbs around Stuart:
Wulguru
	Stuart
Roseneath	Brookhill	Julago

Stuart is a rural suburb of the City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia.^[1]

Heritage listings

Stuart has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:

Centenary Drive, off Dwyer Street: Stewart's Creek Gaol (former)^[2]
Off Stuart Drive: Operations and Signals Bunker (former)^[3]
523 Stuart Drive: St Brigid's Church^[4]

History during WW2

WW2 map showing locations of bunkers

In December 1942, two classrooms of the Stuart State School on the outskirts of Townsville were used by the Army as the main Army Signals Communication Centre in North Queensland.

The unit then moved to a concrete bunker at Roseneath.

v t e Suburbs of Townsville, North Queensland, Queensland

Urban	Aitkenvale Annandale Belgian Gardens Bohle Castle Hill Cluden Condon Cranbrook Currajong Douglas Garbutt Gulliver Gumlow Heatley Hermit Park Hyde Park Idalia James Cook University Kelso Kirwan Lavarack Army Barracks Mount Louisa Mount St John Mount Stuart Mundingburra Murray Mysterton North Ward Oonoonba Pallarenda Pimlico Railway Estate Rasmussen Rosslea Rowes Bay Shaw South Townsville Thuringowa Central Townsville City Vincent West End Wulguru

Rural	Alice River Alligator Creek Balgal Beach Black River Blue Hills Bluewater Park Bohle Plains Brookhill Calcium Cape Cleveland Cleament Crimea Crystal Creek Cungulla Hervey Range Hidden Valley Julago Lynam Majors Creek Mount Elliot Mutarnee Nome Oak Valley Orpheus Island Palm Island Partington Pinnacles Rangewood Reid River Rollingstone Roseneath Rupertswood Stuart Toomulla Toonpan Woodstock

Northern Beaches	Beach Holm Bluewater Burdell Bushland Beach Deeragun Jensen Mount Low Purono Park Saunders Beach Toolakea Yabulu

Magnetic Island	Arcadia Cockle Bay Horseshoe Bay Magnetic Island Nelly Bay Picnic Bay

References

↑ "Stuart". Place name details. Queensland Government. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
↑ "Stewart's Creek Gaol (former) (entry 16895)". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 2013-07-16.
↑ "Operations and Signals Bunker (former) (entry 16461)". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 2013-07-16.
↑ "St Brigid's Church (entry 15656)". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 2013-07-16.

External links

University of Queensland: Queensland Places: Stuart

Coordinates: 19°19′S 146°49′E / 19.317°S 146.817°E / -19.317; 146.817

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