NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Flinders Highway, Queensland

Flinders Highway is a highway that crosses Queensland from east to west, from Townsville on the Pacific coast to Cloncurry. Barkly Highway continues to the border with the Northern Territory at Camooweal and beyond. Flinders Highway and passes a number of small outback towns. Typical outback landscape predominates towards the inland. Formerly National Route 78, now signed as A6. Motto: Audax at Fidelis (Bold but Faithful) Nickname: Sunshine State/Smart State Other Australian states and territories Capital Brisbane Government Governor Premier Const. ... Townsville in 2004. ... National Route A2 The National Highway 66 The Barkly Highway is a national highway of both Queensland and the Northern Territory. ... Motto: None Nickname: ? Other Australian states and territories Capital Darwin Government Administrator Chief Minister Const. ... Camooweal is a small town in north western Queensland, Australia, located 188 kilometres north west of the city of Mount Isa, and 12 kilometres east of the Northern Territory border. ...

Contents

1 Towns

1.1 Charters Towers
1.2 Hughenden
1.3 Richmond
1.4 Julia Creek
1.5 Cloncurry

2 See also

2.1 External Links

Towns

Charters Towers

133 km to the south west from Townsville. A former gold rush town with a population of 30 000 in 1890. Presently the centre of cattle farming and fruit growing. Much of its elegant gold rush architecture remains. Charters Towers is a city in northern Queensland, Australia. ...

Hughenden

Located 243 km further on, Hughenden, the administrative centre of Flinders shire is in the heart of sheep and cattle country. Hughenden, is a town in Queensland, Australia situated on the banks of the Flinders River. ...

Richmond

A former gold rush town located 112 km further west. Currently a pastoral centre.

Julia Creek

147 km further west, another pastorial settlement

Cloncurry

A former copper-mining town located 139 km west from Julia Creek. The first regular Qantas flights started between here and Charleville in 1922 and Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia service started here in 1928. It is nowadays an important road and rail junction. Flinders Highway ends here. The town of Cloncurry is situated in north west Queensland, Australia, 770 kilometres west of the city of Townsville via the Flinders Highway. ... Qantas (pronounced Kwon-tus) (ASX: QAN) is Australias oldest and largest airline, and the worlds second oldest airline after KLM. (IATA: QF, ICAO: QFA, and Callsign: Qantas) It is often considered to be the worlds safest airline. ... The Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia (RFDS, informally known as The Flying Doctors) is an air ambulance service for those living in the remote inland areas of Australia. ...

hughenden outback queensland (350 words)
	Hughenden is the centre of the Shire of Flinders.
	Flinders Shire covers an area of 41,632 square kilometres which extends 106 kilometres to the East, 88 kilometres to the West, 166 kilometres to the North and 158 kilometres to the South of Hughenden.
	Situated on the banks of Queensland's longest river, the Flinders, Hughenden is 386 kilometres south-west of Townsville and 518 kilometres East of Mt Isa on the fully sealed Flinders Highway.

The Flinders Highway, Queensland (408 words)
	The Flinders Highway is the long, long road that crosses Queensland from east to west, from Townsville on the Pacific coast to the border with the Northern Territory at Camooweal, a small village with a Road House.
	Coming from Townsville, the first stop is Charters Towers, 133 km to the south west; now the centre of cattle farming and fruit growing, this was a gold rush town with a population of 30 000 in 1890.
	243 km further on, in the heart of sheep and cattle country, is Hughenden, the administrative centre of Flinders shire.

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