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Black Community School, Townsville
Black Community School, Townsville · Townsville, Townsville · 1973-01-01
The Black Community School (sometimes abbreviated to BCS) was a school founded in 1973 by land rights activist Eddie Koiki Mabo and his friend Burnum Burnum, in Townsville, Australia, for the education of local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.
The record
| Date | 1973-01-01 |
|---|---|
| Place | Black Community School, Townsville, Townsville, Townsville |
| Coordinates | -19.26444, 146.83028 (landmark-level precision) |
| Scope | Local interest |
| Sources | en.wikipedia · Wikidata Q136261786 |
| Added | 2026-08-14 · source: wikipedia-en |
Coordinates are given at landmark level. A landmark-level coordinate points at the structure; a city-level one points at the settlement, not at a parcel.
Finding photographs
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- Wikimedia Commons — freely licensed images, with the licence stated on every file. This is the only source we republish from.
- The reference article — its own illustrations, and its citations to archives.
- Image search filtered to reusable licences — useful for tracing which institution holds a picture.
- National and municipal archives of Townsville, and the picture desks of newspapers published there at the time.
Check the licence before you reuse anything. A photograph being online, or being old, does not make it free; in most countries a 1960s press photograph is still in copyright.
Footage
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Time layers at this place
One place, several moments in time. This location has 11 recorded time layers between 1955 and 1994 — slide through them:
- 1955 — T & G Building, Townsville
- 1969 — Dancenorth
- 1973 — Black Community School, Townsville this page
- 1979 — HMAS Townsville (FCPB 205)
- 1981 — Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
- 1982 — Buchanan's Hotel
- 1991 — Australian Festival of Chamber Music
- 1992 — Townsville Magistrates Court
- 1992 — Australian Joint Stock Bank Building, Townsville
- 1992 — Victoria Park Hotel
- 1994 — Queensland National Bank, Townsville
Harvested from a regional source. This entry came out of en.wikipedia rather than being written here, which is why it is short and why it is marked as needing a check. It is published as a lead for someone who knows the place: fill it in.
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Nearby in Australia and Oceania
- Victoria Park Hotel (1992)Townsville
- HMAS Townsville (FCPB 205) (1979)Townsville
- T & G Building, Townsville (1955)Townsville
- Australian Joint Stock Bank Building, Townsville (1992)Townsville
- Perc Tucker Regional Gallery (1981)Townsville
- Queensland National Bank, Townsville (1994)Townsville