Town of 1770

The Town of 1770, also written Seventeen Seventy, is a small coastal town in the Gladstone Region of Queensland, Australia, on Bustard Bay about 130 km north of Bundaberg. It is notable as the site of Captain James Cook's second landing in Australia in May 1770. The town is a low-key beach destination and departure point for Great Barrier Reef tours, combining historic monuments, headland lookouts and sandy beaches.

Visitors can expect a quiet coastal village set around a headland, sandy beaches and Bustard Bay. The foreshore has a Captain Cook Monument, picnic areas and lookouts within Joseph Banks Conservation Park. The 1770 Headland offers short walking tracks with ocean views. The marina is the departure point for LARC amphibious tours, fishing charters, kayaking and day trips to Lady Musgrave Island and Bustard Head Lighthouse. Accommodation, cafes and a visitor information centre are in the town centre.

The town commemorates the second landing of Lieutenant James Cook and the crew of HMS Endeavour on 23 May 1770 at Bustard Bay. Cook and botanists Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander came ashore, the first landing after Botany Bay. The area was named Town of 1770 in recognition of this event, and the Captain Cook Monument on the foreshore marks the landing site.

The area is part of the traditional lands of the Gooreng Gooreng people. Today the town is valued as a historic coastal settlement and as a gateway for visitors to experience the southern Great Barrier Reef and the natural coastal landscape of the Discovery Coast.