County of Elphinstone

Elphinstone
Queensland
Location within Queensland
Lands administrative divisions around Elphinstone:
Wilkie Gray Pacific Ocean Pacific Ocean
Wilkie Gray Elphinstone Gladstone
Davenport Davenport Murray

The County of Elphinstone is a cadastral division of Queensland which contains the city of Townsville. It was named after George Elphinstone Dalrymple (1826–1876), a politician and explorer. The county is divided into civil parishes. Townsville is mentioned as being in the county of Elphinstone in the 1911 Britannica. It is bounded by the Haughton River in the east, and part of the Burdekin River in the south-west.

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