Where is lucinda

Surrounded by the Great Barrier Reef the island is rich in aboriginal history and flourishes with thriving rainforests and exotic wildlife. Hinchinbrook Island offers the best of scenic bushwalks and hikes through unspoiled rainforest. The Hinchinbrook Channel is a dugong protection area, so sightings are possible.

The jetty enables Lucinda to receive the largest ships used in the raw sugar trade. Built in the jetty was designed to withstand cyclones and to follow the curvature of the earth, by dipping two meters from the initial horizon over its length. A single conveyor belt runs the entire length of the jetty and back, enabling sugar to travel from the storage sheds on land to ships berthed out at sea in about 25 minutes.

Almost tonnes of sugar can be carried by the conveyor belt at any one time. Vessels can load cargoes of up to 25, tonnes of raw sugar in less than a day. In CSR Limited opened a sugar tramway to Lucinda Point, built a jetty and transferred a sugar shed from Halifax to the new facility, connecting Ingham with a deepwater port and ensuring its ascendancy. A primary school also opened in The harbour was known as Dungeness, with a pilot station, customs office and the Sea View hotel.

Dungeness was described in the Australian handbook :. Lucinda became the sugar export port for the Herbert River district. With the coming of motorcar ownership the inhabitants of Ingham chose Lucinda as their coastal watering place: an early postwar description recorded a substantial settlement of weekend cottages and plentiful estuary fishing.

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