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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 city in 1909. Worked continuously until World War I, the gold reefs were among the state’s most productive. Silver, lead, and zinc were also mined ...(100 of 168 words)

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