Castle Hill

Castle Hill is a heritage-listed isolated pink granite monolith in the suburb of Castle Hill, City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. Its Indigenous name is Cootharinga, sometimes written as Cooderinga.

Photo: Hanek45, Public domain.

Type: Peak with an elevation of 264 metres
Description: granite monolith in Townsville, Queensland, Australia
Also known as: “Castle Hill, Townsville”, “Cudtheringa”, “Mount Cudtheringa”, “Mount Cutheringa”, and “Mount Gudtheringa”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sacred Heart Cathedral and Queens Gardens.

Sacred Heart Cathedral

Church

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Sacred Heart Cathedral is a heritage-listed Roman Catholic cathedral at 266 Stanley Street, Townsville CBD, City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1896 to 1902 by Dennis Kelleher.

Queens Gardens

Park

Photo: Stickpen, Public domain.

Queens Gardens is a large heritage-listed botanic garden at Paxton Street, North Ward, City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. Queens Gardens is located at the base of Castle Hill, near to both the city centre and The Strand beachside park.

North Queensland Stadium

Stadium

Photo: Greditdesu, CC BY-SA 4.0.

North Queensland Stadium is a stadium located in the Townsville suburb of Railway Estate. It is primarily used for rugby league as the home ground of the North Queensland Cowboys which compete in the National Rugby League.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Castle Hill and Townsville City.

Castle Hill

Suburb

Castle Hill is a suburb of Townsville in the City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. The suburb is based on and around the mountain of the same name.

Townsville City

Suburb

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Townsville City is a coastal suburb at the centre of the City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, the suburb of Townsville City had a population of 2,945 people.

Townsville

Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.

Townsville is a laid-back coastal city of over 173,724 people in North Central Queensland. Townsville is on the coast and enjoys an average of 320 days of sunshine a year.

Castle Hill

Categories: monolith, hill, mountain, and landform
Location: Townsville, Queensland, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude

-19.25803° or 19° 15′ 29″ south

Longitude

146.80263° or 146° 48′ 10″ east

Elevation

264 metres (866 feet)

Open location code

5RG8PRR3+Q3

OpenStreetMap ID

node 60428127

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=peak

GeoNames ID

2172118

Wikidata ID

Q5050127

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Satellite Map

Discover Castle Hill from above in high-definition satellite imagery.

In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Castle Hill” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Castle Hill”
Chinese: “城堡山”
Egyptian Arabic: “جبل كاستل هيل”
French: “Castle Hill”
Ladin: “Castle Hill”
Swedish: “Castle Hill (kulle i Australien, Queensland, Townsville)”
Swedish: “Castle Hill”

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