Boom Town Traditional Cache
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Located 88kms east of Hughenden and 166kms west of Charters Towers, is the small township of Torrens Creek. The creek the town is named after was discovered in 1862 by William Landsborough while searching for Burke and Wills.
The Great Northern Railway reached Torrens Creek in 1885 and from then on it became the main supply centre for the entire district. During World War Two, the town also became the site of an important allied ammunition dump with stockpiles of tens of thousands of pounds of high explosive bombs, shells, and various calibre ammunition.
In 1942, after a controlled burn-off that went wrong, fire managed to reach the first of the stockpiles setting off twelve huge explosions which hurled men from their trucks, threw red hot shrapnel over a large area, and left a series of craters over twenty feet deep. In the town buildings shook, windows broke, and people thought they were under attack from an air raid!
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Lbh jba'g unir gb ybbx gbb qrrcyl vagb guvf pyhr.
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