Bowen QLD, 4805
Bowen Real Estate: Suburb Profile
Whether buying, renting or investing in Bowen, QLD 4805, it's fundamental to know whether it is suitable for your lifestyle and or financial circumstances. The Homes.com.au suburb profile provides the statistics on Bowen property prices, market trends & demographics to educate you on your next home or investment.
If you are new to Bowen, keep reading for a brief history lesson to discover more about the amazing lifestyle and what makes this suburb so popular.
Overview The coastal urban area of Bowen is 200 km southwest of Townville, Queensland's fourth-largest city and biggest metropolitan in Australia's northeast. A part of the Whitsunday Region, it is under the Shire of Brown. The township is next to the Abbot Point coal export terminal, the biggest deep-sea port on Australia's eastern coast. Bowen became the city of Darwin in the 2008 adventure-drama movie Australia set against the backdrop of World War II.
Living in Bowen The coastal location makes Bowen a lovely place with great tourist destinations around. Its urban ambience is an exciting mix of sea, sun, and beaches. There are plenty of good schools in the town, and many trace their origins back to the 1870s and 1880s. Bowen is emerging as a critical commercial hub around the deep-water port at Abbott Point. The town has many shopping arcades, including Woolworth Complex, supermarkets and boutique shops, providing good shopping options. Both the North Coast railway and the Bruce Highway serve the town.
History of Bowen Bowen was an Aboriginal area when Captain James Cook's voyage passed adjacent to the Gloucester Island off its coast in 1770. James Morrill, a shipwreck survivor, was the first non-native to live in the area in 1850. Ten years later, George Elphinstone Dalrymple landed in Bowen while looking for the mouth of the Burdekin River. Impressed by a large number of native wells, they set up a permanent settlement there. It grew despite conflict with Aboriginals and was named after Sir George Bowen, the first governor of Queensland, in the 1860s. With schools and other institutions' coming up, Bowen became a big urban area by the early 1900s.
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