Torrens Creek Torrens Creek Torrens Creek is a town and locality in the Shire of Flinders in northern Queensland, Australia. At the , Torrens Creek and the surrounding area had a population of 64. The town is on the Flinders Highway, north-west of the state capital, Brisbane and west of the regional centre of Townsville. The town is named for the creek that forms part of the headwaters of the Thomson River. In 1942 a large World War II ammunition dump exploded when a fire lit by American and Australian soldiers to create a firebreak got out of control. A series of
Torrens title although small remnants of land may still exist under the deeds system. The Torrens system is now implemented by the Land Transfer Act 1952. However, the implementation by the 1952 Act will soon be superseded by the Land Transfer Act 2017. The Torrens system was established in the Philippines on November 6, 1902 by the enactment of "Act No. 496", "The Land Registration Act", which was virtually identical to the Real Property Act of Massachusetts of 1898. Russia adopted the Torrens system soon after the founding of the Soviet Union. Currently, the accounting and registration system for rights to immovable