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Bundaberg, city and port, Queensland, Australia, on the Burnett River. It is located some 220 km (137 miles) north of Brisbane. In the 1850s a pair of settlers, John and Gavin Stewart, obtained forested land near what would become Bundaberg to supply timber to the pastoral industry that had recently been established in the region. A town was surveyed in 1868 on the south bank of the Burnett and was given the name Bundaberg, for...

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