The Seventeen Seventy Foreshore is a place of national significance protected by a Heritage Act. The town of Seventeen Seventy was the point of Captain Cook’s first landing in Queensland, and the gentle improvements were undertaken to celebrate the 150 years since this first settlement. The opportunity has been taken to also celebrate local Aboriginal culture. Places of outstanding natural beauty and history require careful attention. Rather than creating new landmarks, the scheme seeks to bring out the sculptural qualities of the existing mature trees, rocky headlands and curving foreshore. By walking the tracks of the foreshore with local residents on site, a new main street on the water has been created to join up the whole village.
