Quilpie Area Destinations
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Adavale
Adavale, Queensland (Destination)
Adavale is located approximately 100 kilometres north east of Quilpie. The township was proclaimed on 3 December 1872 and by 1897 five hotels soothed the dusty throats of travellers and locals alike. The mail coach Cobb and Co stopped in the town on its way from Charleville via Cheepie to Windorah. The name Adavale has been said to derive from t ... READ MORE »
Cheepie
Cheepie, Queensland (Destination)
Cheepie is the friendly ‘ghost town’ of the Outback. The township formed when the railway first came through in 1914 and gradually grew to have a police station, blacksmith, railway station, tent boarding houses, butcher shop, bakery and two vegetable gardens. All that remains today of this once vibrant town is the old post office. The township ... READ MORE »
Eromanga
Eromanga, Queensland (Destination)
Searching for an ‘out of the way’ place? Then Eromanga is your town. Virtually untouched by travellers, the town is surrounded by vast sheep and cattle properties. Reputedly the town farthest from the sea in Australia, Eromanga is named after the aboriginal word meaning 'hot, windy plain'. As remote as it is, around the 1880s Eromanga drew mine ... READ MORE »
Quilpie
Quilpie, Queensland (Destination)
Looking for colour? In these parts there's plenty of it, to be found both in the stories relating to the early settlement of the region and also that precious 'colour' of boulder opal, which is sought from beneath the surface of the bush earth. Quilpie is best known as an opal town. It is often referred to as the home of the 'Boulder Opal' as th ... READ MORE »
Toompine
Toompine, Queensland (Destination)
A small friendly outback community south of Quilpie, Toompine is a social centre for the surrounding grazing properties and opal mines. The town derives its name from the Aboriginal word 'Thempin' meaning a leech. Cobb and Co once serviced this town with its regular coach schedules. All that remains today of those early pioneering days is the To ... READ MORE »
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