Charters Towers

Charters Towers, city, northeastern Queensland, Australia, in the upper Burdekin River basin. It is located about 635 miles (1,020 km) northwest of Brisbane. The town was founded after a the discovery of gold in a stream by an Aboriginal boy, Jupiter Mosman, in 1871, and the population of Charters Towers reached a peak of 30,000 during the ensuing gold rush of the 1870s and ’80s. It was gazetted a municipality in 1878 and became a...