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Hughenden QLD 4821
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Hughenden is a rural town located half-way between Townsville and Mount Isa on the Flinders Highway, North West Queensland. Hughenden is situated on the banks of Queensland’s longest river, the Flinders.
Hughenden has a lot to offer travellers, with four national parks, mountainous volcanic basalt country, sweeping black soil plains and rich fossil and dinosaur areas.
Take in the ‘inland sea’ – About 100 Million years ago much of central Queensland and Parts of New South Wales and South Australia were covered by a shallow inland sea. This area is now called the Great Artesian Basin.
Visit “Hughie”, the seven metre-tall Muttaburrasaurus, and an impressive fossil collection at the Flinders Discovery Centre, which is also an accredited Information Centre. While you are there, relive the glory days of sheep production and its subsequent demise in the “Shearing the Straggler” exhibit.
For more information, please see https://www.visithughenden.com.au/ and https://www.outbackqueensland.com.au/town/hughenden/
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