The place is at the point where James Cook and his crew landed the HMS Endeavor . On April 29, 1770 he landed at Botany Bay and for the second time on May 24, 1770 in Queensland on the Australian continent. The landing site is now at the small marina and is marked with a memorial. The original name of the place was Round Hill , which was changed in 1770 to mark the 200th anniversary of this event. 1770 lies on a peninsula on Bustard Bay in the Coral Sea .
Today the village is a tourist destination with accommodation, a restaurant, shop and a small marina . Only a few residents live permanently in the village. The most important branch of the economy is tourism. There are offers for water sports and hiking, for day trips by plane or ship to the Great Barrier Reef and other natural beauties such as islands, reefs, streams and a lighthouse . Close to the village are Deepwater National Park , Eurimbula National Park , Mount Colosseum National Park and Round Hill Nature Reserve .
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Although the place was named in 1770 with reference to the arrival of James Cook in Australia, the official spelling is Seventeen Seventy . The reason for this lies in the state's strict “place naming guidelines”, which stipulate that numbers are to be written out. However, there are street names in locations both in Australia and overseas that start with 1770 Queensland .
↑ 1770 Festival. (No longer available online.) In: letsconnect.com.au. Archived from the original on May 3, 2013 ; accessed on May 16, 2019 (English).
^ How places are named. In: dnrm.qld.gov.au. Queensland Government, accessed November 17, 2017 (English): "Numbers should be spelled out (eg 'Seventeen Seventy' not '1770')."
