Flinders Highway, Queensland
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| Flinders Highway | |
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| Length | 769 kilometres |
| General direction: | West-East |
| From: | Cloncurry, Queensland |
| To: | Townsville, Queensland |
| Towns along highway: | Julia Creek, Richmond, Hughenden, Charters Towers |
Flinders Highway is a highway that crosses Queensland from east to west, from Townsville on the Pacific coast to Cloncurry (Barkly Highway continues from Cloncurry to the Northern Territory border 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, Queensland began to convert to the alphanumeric system much of Australia had adopted in the early-2000s and is now designated as A6.
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[edit] Towns
[edit] 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.
[edit] Hughenden
Located 243 km further on, Hughenden, the administrative centre of Flinders shire is in the heart of sheep and cattle country.
[edit] Richmond
A former gold rush town located 112 km further west. Currently a pastoral centre.
[edit] Julia Creek
147 km further west, another pastorial settlement
[edit] 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.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Overlander's Highway A driving guide by Roderick Eime
