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Tiger Moth VH-ARF crashed on the beach at Port Douglas, 1955

from State Library of Queensland

• Vesna Verencevic said:

  The crumpled VH-ARF on the beach at Port Douglas where it came to grief. It was not repaired. From the 1930s and into the 1950s, Four Mile Beach at Port Douglas was used as the local airstrip. Source: www.airhistory.net/operator/3923/Royal-Queensland-Aero-Club

Port Douglas Post Office, Queensland, ca. 1925

from State Library of Queensland

• Vesna Verencevic said:

  Port Douglas Post Office opened on 1 September 1877.[5] It grew quickly, and at its peak Port Douglas had a population of 12,000 and 27 hotels. With the construction of the Mulligan Highway it serviced towns as far away as Herberton. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Douglas#:~:text=Port%20Douglas....