Talk:Port Douglas

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Residents of Port Douglas

I have an issue with this.

Firstly, most of the people mentioned don't actually live in Port Douglas. Some own property in/near Port Douglas, but don't live there.
Secondly, why are we mentioning that they live there. Isn't the bio on them going to refer to where they live?

Mark1800 05:49, 5 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It reads a bit like a tabloid celebrity piece. The content could be removed. Citations are not provided either. However, some may find it interesting . . . --Peter Campbell Talk! 07:26, 5 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'd agree with removing the celebrity "residents" section. As Mark1800 said - most of them don't live there. --Mkfenn 09:44, 7 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Done 202.161.83.215 10:43, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Copyrighted text

I've removed the following text from the fromt page because it has been taken from The Douglas Shire Council Homepage. Although it was referenced, I'm still not sure that it isn't a WP:Copyvio. I thought it best to move it here until somebody can clarify. -- Adz|talk 06:49, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The Douglas Shire is a small rural region on the coastline of North East Australia. It is the only place in the World where two World Heritage Areas meet - the Great Barrier Reef and the Wet Tropics of Far North Queensland. Over 80% of the Shire is World Heritage listed.

Douglas Shire has a population over 11,000 people. Its economy is built on a relatively new tourism industry and an established agriculture sector. The Shire accommodates a million visitors a year and produces a million tonnes of sugar cane, cattle and a variety of fruit crops. It also has one of the oldest intact surviving Indigenous communities in the world – the Kuku Yalanji.

The administrative centre of the Shire is in Mossman which is 75 kilometres north of Cairns. The Douglas Shire extends from Simpson Point in the south to the Bloomfield River in the north (approx 90kms in length). The Shire is currently experiencing rapid growth and incorporates Port Douglas and the Daintree National Park. Both of these areas are renowned nationally and internationally as tourism destinations and the Council is committed to sustaining a balance between economic growth and the biodiversity of the natural environment.

More copyrighted text, this time from here

The area known as the Douglas Shire was discovered by George Elphinstone Dalrymple in 1873. Dalrymple noted a hill rising from the water’s edge at the end of a low sandy beach. From a distance, before the low sandy shore was visible, the hill looked like an island so he gave it the name “Island Point”, this was changed to Port Douglas in 1877.