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Dinosaur Capital of Australia, Home of Waltzing Matilda & Queensland’S Boulder Opal experience WINTON Dinosaur Capital of Australia, home of Waltzing Matilda & Queensland’s Boulder Opal www.experiencewinton.com.au Welcome to WINTON SHIRE Winton is located in Central Western Queensland Winton is known as the home of Waltzing Matilda, with A B on the Landsborough Highway, 180 kilometres (Banjo) Paterson writing our national song in 1895, whilst northwest of Longreach and 472 kilometres south- visiting Dagworth Station. Legend has it that the first public east of Mount Isa. Winton is approximately 1,500 performance of Waltzing Matilda happened at Winton’s kilometres from Brisbane; covering 53,935 square North Gregory Hotel on 6th April, 1895. kilometres and boasting a population of around Twenty-five years later, Winton became the birthplace of the 1,600 people. Home to diverse landscapes, with Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Service (QANTAS), rolling Mitchell Grass Downs suddenly interrupted registered as a company in Winton on 16th November, by mesa formations, starkly beautiful red earth and 1920. This was followed by its first Board Meeting in spinifex country, and Channel Country, undulating 1921, held on the 10th February at the Winton Club. Later plains as far as the eye can see with a myriad of dry in 1921, the Winton Shire Council became the first local channels, waiting for the wet season. authority in Australia to support Commercial Aviation after Winton has a rich history with links to the Great Shearers’ subsidising by half the cost of establishing a landing field Strike, Waltzing Matilda and Qantas, but today the town in Winton, to the sum of £20. The local expression is that is almost as well known for something far more ancient… QANTAS was conceived in Cloncurry, born in Winton and dinosaurs. grew up in Longreach! When the area was settled in the late 19th Century, the region’s low annual rainfall made The first official dinosaur discovery in Winton Shire was it ideal for sheep, and up to 1.5 million sheep have been made in 1962, on Cork Station – a fossilised footprint, grazed during past good seasons. In recent times, graziers with the site later revealing a stampede with over 3,300 have increasingly shifted from wool production to beef footprints. Later discoveries were the then largest dinosaur production. The opal mining industry also flourishes in found in Australia, a 20-30 ton Sauropod, nicknamed ‘Elliot’, Winton, and has for more than a century. Some of the best discovered on a property outside Winton in 1999, and his boulder opal has been found from claims within the Winton friends, more Sauropods of the group called Titanosaurs Shire. (the largest dinosaurs to walk the earth) in varying sizes and types – and ‘Banjo’, Australia’s largest known carnivorous dinosaur. contents Towns of Winton Shire 03 Getting to Winton 15 Festivals & Special Events 04 Climate & Water 16 Winton Dinosaur Capital of Australia 05 Winton Two Day Self-Drive Experience 17 Things to see & do around town 06 Services Directory 18 Things to see & do around the Region 11 Getting Around Winton 20 Special Interest Activities 13 Towns of WINTON SHIRE Winton Latitude: 22° 22’ 54.66” S Longitude: 143° 02’ 32.66” E Altitude: 187m Population: 980 Winton is located on the Matilda Highway, between Longreach and Kynuna and is the gateway to Australia’s Dinosaur Trail and the Outback Way. Winton town is the Shire administration centre and is known for friendly hospitality and big smiles. The town boasts a selection of good affordable accommodation, caravan parks, great food outlets, Searle’s Outback Store, various retail outlets and general stores for all your travelling needs. Get involved in the local atmosphere during one of Winton’s many events, including Easter in the Outback, Waltzing Matilda Day, 'Pelican Waterhole' feature, Eldersie St, Winton Diamantina Campdraft, Turf Club Races, Drag Racing, Opal Trade Show, Camel Races, Rodeos and the Outback Festival (bi-annually) to name just a few. Corfield Railway Siding, circa 1900 Entrance to Opalton Middleton Hotel Opalton Corfield Middleton Latitude: 23º 14’ 53.23” S Latitude: 21º 42’ 50.51” S Latitude: 22º 21’ 4.86” S Longitude: 142º 45’ 39” E Longitude: 143º 22’ 29.34” E Longitude: 141º 33’ 6.11” E Altitude: 246m Altitude: 257m Altitude: 192m Population: 25 Population: 10 Population: 3 Home of Queensland’s Boulder Opal, Corfield is a tiny town located 90 kilometres Located 164 kilometres along the Winton- Opalton lies 123 kilometres north of Winton on the road to Hughenden. Boulia Road, Middleton made history in 1862, south-west of Winton. when the first white men, McKinlay and his The town can be identified only by the search party for Burke and Wills, entered the Opal was first discovered here by small cluster of buildings on the rolling area. In fact, Middleton’s name is derived from George Cragg in 1888 and the first mine Mitchell grass downs. Once a busy railway this search party, after a creek named for the was worked in 1894. By the end of the siding, Corfield is now known for the annual man second in charge—Middleton. 19th Century there was a bustling town ‘Corfield Cup’ race meeting, when the township of 600 and Opalton became population explodes with people visiting Middleton later became the site of the known for the enormous quantity and from near and far. Middleton Hotel in 1876, and was a Cobb & quality of its opal. Notably, in 1899 the Co. changing station until the service ceased Contact the Visitor Information Centre for largest piece of opal ever recorded was in 1915. The small town that grew up around the date and dig out your best hat, for a real mined from Opalton, a pipe opal that the Hotel has since disappeared, leaving the Outback races experience! measured more than three metres long. Middleton Hotel with the distinction of being one of the most isolated pubs in Queensland. Try your luck fossicking for your own opal in the public fossicking area. You can still stop off for a drink at the There are camping facilities at the Middleton Hotel, and with a spectacular Opalton bush park. scenic drive to Middleton, and Cawnpore Lookout, you won’t be disappointed. experience WINTON 03 Festivals & SPECIAL EVENTS JANUARY JUNE OCTOBER Australia Day Winton Show Middleton Bike Gymkhana Winton Auto Spectacular Relay 4 Life FEBRUARY Vision Splendid Outback Outback Oktober Fest Bull sale Film Festival Winton Club’s Chinese New Year NOVEMBER JULY St Patrick’s Parish Fete MARCH Opal Expo and Design Awards Generation Next Regional Youth Exhibition Winton Camel Races APRIL DECEMBER Easter in the Outback AUGUST Christmas Street Party Waltzing Matilda Day Corfield acesR and Carols by Candlelight ANZAC Day Golf Competition North Gregory Turf Club Races Diamantina Golf Championship The Outback Regional Gallery and Gallery Foyer houses new exhibitions every six to eight weeks with an MAY SEPTEMBER official opening night. Junior Bush Poetry Dinosaur Discovery Week Winton Sunday Markets are held Diamantina Campdraft North Gregory Turf Club Races on the third Sunday of each month Bull Sale BHP Billiton Cannington April – December. Waltzing Matilda Photographic Tower Hill Races Please contact the Winton Visitor Competition & Exhibition Information Centre to confirm North Gregory Turf Club Races Outback Festival event dates. The John Villiers Waltzing Matilda (odd year biennially) P 1300 665 115 or Outback Art Show [email protected] Truckies Reunion E W www.experiencewinton.com.au Winton Show Ball (odd year biennially) or find us on Facebook. Winton Outback Festival Dunny Derby Eyes Wide Open Images 04 Australian Age of Dinosaurs Dinosaur Stampede at Lark Quarry Home of the world’s largest collection of Australian dinosaur Conservation Park fossils and the most productive fossil preparation laboratory Travel back in time 95 million years with a visit to the in the Southern hemisphere! Meet famous Australian Dinosaur Stampede at Lark Quarry Conservation Park. Over dinosaurs including ‘Banjo’ (Australovenator wintonensis), 3,300 stampeding footprints immortalised in stone mark the most complete Australian carnivorous dinosaur ever the site of the only known dinosaur stampede on the planet. discovered and many giant plant-eating Sauropods. In a remarkable piece of scientific detective work, scientists The Museum is located on top of an ancient mesa called from the Queensland Museum have pieced together a ‘The Jump-Up’ with huge rocky outcrops, cliffs, canyons dramatic tale of hunter and hunted from the footprints left and spectacular views. Getting there is easy. The Museum behind. is located just 13 km south of Winton on the Landsborough Protected in an award-winning, ecologically-sustainable Highway and then 12km further on an unsealed road. complex, the Dinosaur Stampede is open twelve months of Guided tours of the dinosaur collection and fossil preparation the year. Interpretive tours of the Stampede operate three laboratory run hourly from 9am with the last laboratory times daily, exploring the history of the Stampede from tour at 3pm and the last collection tour at 4pm. Enjoy the creation to discovery and display. The Dinosaur Stampede is dinosaur-themed gift shop, café serving snacks, drinks and located at Lark Quarry Conservation Park, just 110km south- ice-creams, and two walking tracks. west of Winton, Queensland. Site open from 8.30am to 5.00pm daily from April to So what are you waiting for – make tracks to the Dinosaur September; closed Sundays from October to March, Stampede at Lark Quarry Conservation Park! 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