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	Hughenden, Queensland (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Hughenden, is a town in Queensland, Australia situated on the banks of the Flinders River.
		Hughenden is located on the Flinders Highway, 376 kilometres west of Townsville and 1400 kilometres north-west of Brisbane, the state capital.
		However, because the rainfall is extremely erratic - at Hughenden itself it has ranged from 126 millimetres (5 inches) in 1926 to 1,051 millimetres (41 inches) in 1950 - droughts and floods are normal and stock number fluctuate greatly.
	www.danceage.com.cob-web.org:8888 /biography/sdmc_Hughenden,_Queensland (192 words)

	Hughenden
		Hughenden, the main centre in the Shire of Flinders is on the banks of the Flinders River.
		Hughenden is surrounded by four national parks, gem fields, mountainous volcanic basalt country, sweeping fl soil plains and rich fossil and dinosaur areas. Camping, birdwatching, swimming and photography opportunities are available in Porcupine Gorge and atKooroorinya Falls south of Prairie.
		Hughenden, on the edge of a vast pre-historic inland sea, was home to terrestrial dinosaurs and marine reptiles.
	www.nrw.qld.gov.au /about/employment/hughenden.html (318 words)

	Muller - pafg02 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Hayden Muller was born on 1 Oct 1991 in Rockhampton,, Queensland, Australia.
		Ellen Muller was born on 25 Jul 1994 in Rockhampton,, Queensland, Australia.
		Lachlan Muller was born on 27 Jul 1993 in Rockhampton,, Queensland, Australia.
	www.users.bigpond.com /sirronaldg/muller/pafg02.htm (514 words)

	Hughenden Headstones, Queensland, Australia
		Hughenden is on the Flinders Highway, that long thread of seal running east-west across the Gulf of Carpentaria, in Australia's north.
		It is dotted by small hamlets, rail stops that were once watering stations for the original steam trains, or are junctions for the roads that disappear off into the scrub, with great clusters of station name-posts and impossible km statements.
		On this road Hughenden is an important stop, some 270 km west of Charters Towers, the junction of several roads.
	www.myrasplace.net /hstones/hhugh.htm (747 words)

	hughenden outback queensland
		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.
	www.sunzine.net /outback/hughenden.html (350 words)

	Hughenden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		There are two places to spend time: the swimming pool on Resolution Street and a free museum and information centre (tel 07/4741 1021) just past the hotel, dedicated to the Muttaburrasaurus dinosaur, a swamp-dwelling iguanadon.
		Bones were found at Muttaburra, near Longreach, in 1963 and assembled into a ten-metre-long skeleton after souvenir hunters handed over pieces to the Queensland Museum in Brisbane.
		Situated in Hughenden with information on the various dinosaurs that used to roam the Outback.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /australia/queensland/hughenden.asp (403 words)

	Hughenden - Places To Visit - Outback - Queensland Holidays
		Hughenden is located half-way between Townsville and Mount Isa on the Flinders Highway, North West Queensland and is the major centre of the Flinders Shire which includes the centres of Prairie, Torrens Creek and Stamford.
		Hughenden is situated on the banks of Queensland's longest river, the Flinders.
		Hughenden, the hub of the North West, has direct road access to all major centres and tourist attractions in this region, including Charters Towers and Townsville, and their many, many attractions.
	www.queenslandholidays.com.au /destinations/outback/places-to-visit/hughenden (320 words)

	hughenden attractions queensland
		Hughenden Dinosaur Centre - displays "Hughie" a life size skeleton replica of the Muttaburrasaurus Langdoni.
		The whistle is a mystery, one reason offered is that a cave -in somewhere in the shaft of the bore has created a wind tunnel.
		The Rotunda and Drinking Fountain was erected in 1932 by the Hughenden District Soldiers Memorial Fund in memory of fallen soldiers in the Boer and Great War.
	www.sunzine.net /outback/hughenden/hughenden-attractions.html (344 words)

	Walkabout - Hughenden
		One of the boards explains: 'The Hughenden area 100 million years ago, was on the edge of a shallow inland sea that extended from what is now the Gulf of Carpentaria through to South Australia.
		Located about 45 km north of Hughenden on the unsealed Kennedy Development Road, the Porcupine Gorge, sometimes known as the 'little Grand Canyon', drops 120 metres from the surrounding countryside.
		It is not possible to enter the gorge from the lookout (which is clearly signposted) but another 10 km further north is the small monolith known as the 'Pyramid' and at this point there is a path which leads into the gorge.
	www.walkabout.com.au /locations/QLDHughenden.shtml (681 words)

	Queensland Labourers Union - Australian Trade Union Archives Trade Union entry
		The Queensland Labourers' Union [QLU] was established at Saltern Creek in 1888 as the Central Queensland Labourers' Union.
		In 1892 the Queensland Labourers' Union, as it was then known, amalgamated with the Queensland Shearers' Union to form the Amalgamated Workers' Union of Queensland.
		Operating for twelve years the three branches of the Amalgamated Workers' Union of Queensland (Longreach, Hughenden and Charleville) amalgamated with the Australian Workers' Union in 1904 and, as a consequence, became the Queensland branches of that union.
	www.atua.org.au /biogs/ALE1160b.htm (128 words)

	Outback Queensland - holidays, tours and travel
		This is where you begin to understand just how big Australia really is! The Queensland Outback is a huge area stretching almost 3000 km from the New South Wales border in the south up into the Gulf Country in the north and across to the Northern Territory border in the west.
		Queensland outback holidays will almost certainly include old bush pubs, country hospitality and pioneering spirit.
		The major roads through the Queensland outback are bitumen sealed and safe for all classes of vehicles.
	www.austtravel.com.au /queensland_outback.htm (401 words)

	Fossicking - Queensland Fossicking Guide
		Hughenden is situated on the banks of the Flinders River, Queensland's longest river.
		Hughenden has a great dinosaur display, the 7m by 3.5m life size replica of the Muttaburrasaurus.
		Porcupine Gorge National Park, 72km from Hughenden, with its towering coloured sandstone cliffs and cool clear flowing water and vegetation is in stark contrast to the surrounding dry flat plains.
	www.gemfields.com /fossicking_guide/fossicking_and_mining_26.htm (615 words)

	Descendants of of William Wotherspoon/Witherspoon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		William Wotherspoon was born on 24 Jun 1898 in Hughenden, Queensland, Australia and died in 1971 in Innisfail, Queensland, Australia, at age 73.
		Myrtle Conner was born on 24 Oct 1902 in Rockhamption, Queensland, Australia, died on 12 Jun 1990 in Biloela, Queensland, Australia, at age 87, and was buried in Biloela, Queensland, Australia.
		Jessie was born on 21 Jul 1877 in Oxley, Brisbane, Australia, died on 3 Jun 1942 in Bowen, Queensland, Austalia, at age 64, and was buried on 3 Jun 1942 in Bowen, Queensland, Austalia.
	users.bigpond.net.au /wotherspoon/d4.htm (1786 words)

	Hughenden concerned over possible train driver changes. 26 September 2006. Townsville News
		A group of business leaders in northern inland Queensland says it is concerned about the safety of train drivers if Queensland Rail (QR) change job conditions.
		The Hughenden Chamber of Commerce says the town of Hughenden has lost 20 QR jobs in the last two years and it is worried a staff review next month will result in more.
		Queensland Rail says QR National will be reviewing the business next month because freight operations between Cloncurry and Hughenden are not as efficient as they could be.
	www.abc.net.au /news/australia/qld/townsville/200609/s1748768.htm (249 words)

	Frontier Services - Karratha Occasional Care
		The service is managed by a Senior Co-ordinator, Assistant Co-ordinator and one part time Administration Assistant and is based in Hughenden (Flinders Shire), which is approximately 4 hours west of Townsville and servicing nine shires in North Queensland — Boulia, Croydon, Cloncurry, Dalrymple, Etheridge, Flinders, McKinlay, Richmond and Winton.
		Hughenden is the main centre of the Flinders Shire where sheep and cattle raising are the main primary industries in the area with a population of around 1,800.
		The service “NQ Remote In Home Care” encompasses 9 shires in North Queensland and sources carers who will provide child care, as contractors, particularly for rural and remote families in situations where they would not normally be able to access any form of child care.
	www.frontierservices.org /services/nqinhomecare.htm (172 words)

	Hughenden, Queensland - Travelmate
		A 14m replica of the plant-eating Muttaburrasaurus, which roamed the northern centre of Queensland 100 million years ago, is the centrepiece of the museum.
		Hughenden, in fact, is the most easterly point in Queensland’s famous fossil triangle, which stretches to Cloncurry in the west and Winton in the south.
		Set on the banks of Queensland's longest river, the Flinders, Hughenden is 385km south-west of Townsville.
	www.travelmate.com.au /Places/Places.asp?TownId=628 (268 words)

	Australia's Lost Kingdoms - Queensland Kronosaur
		Description: The Queensland Kronosaur was a giant pliosaur - an enormous swimming reptile that terrorised the open ocean and shallow inland seas 110 million years ago.
		Fossils: Fossils of the Queensland Kronosaur have been found at Hughenden and Richmond in central Queensland.
		Did you know?: The Queensland Kronosaur is one of the largest marine reptiles known.
	www.lostkingdoms.com /facts/factsheet6.htm (137 words)

	SGAP(Qld) Article - Gardening in Hughenden
		Hughenden is a hot, dusty little town in north-west Queensland.
		Its summers are particularly hot, with temperatures always in the very high 30 degrees Celsius and often well over 40 degrees C. It is situated on a vast, treeless, fl soil plain that stretches south to Barcaldine and west past Julia Creek.
		When we arrived the yard was devoid of any vegetation (except the odd clump of Mitchell grass); so that summer temperatures inside and outside of the house were often unbearable.
	www.sgapqld.org.au /article6.html (519 words)

	Hughenden Industrial Estate Indigenous Land Use Agreement (ILUA) - Agreements Database Agreement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Summary Information: The Hughenden Industrial Estate Indigenous Land Use Agreement was made between the State of Queensland, Flinders Shire Council and the Yirandali native title group of north Queensland.
		Under the agreement approximately 35 hectares of land is transferred into freehold for the Hughenden Industrial Estate, and 2 hectares is transferred into freehold for use by the Yirandali traditional owners.
		The ILUA area is made up of the Hughenden Pasturage Reserve Lot 120 (on plan CP900361) and Gravel Reserve Lot 114 (on plan DG112) in the County of Douglas, Shire of Hughenden.
	www.atns.net.au /biogs/A001369b.htm (347 words)

	Hughenden - Queensland - Australia - Travel - smh.com.au
		Hughenden - Queensland - Australia - Travel - smh.com.au
		Queensland’s most popular corner has more going for it than sunshine.
		This is a sad story from the Canadian ski resort town of Whistler, but one which could have a happy ending in February 2010.
	www.smh.com.au /news/Queensland/Hughenden/2005/02/17/1108500203409.html (741 words)

	Regional Airports Domestic International Airline QAL - Queensland Airports Limited
		Queensland Airports Limited (QAL) was formed in 2003.
		This group structure was designed to achieve synergies across all airports and deliver a sustainable return on investment to shareholders, stakeholders and customers.
		Queensland Airports Limited, Level 1 Airport Central, 1 Eastern Avenue, Bilinga QLD 4225.
	www.qldairports.com.au (271 words)

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		Hughenden is the business and commercial centre of the Flinders Shire.
		Hughenden is situated on the banks of Queensland longest river, the Flinders and is located on the Overlander's Way (Flinders Highway).
		Hughenden has direct road access to a number of major centres and tourist attractions within the region.
	www.flinders.qld.gov.au (232 words)

	State Schools Holidays and Qld Public Holidays (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		From 2006, the Queensland Government will take a flexible approach to dates for the Easter holidays so that school terms are of similar length.
		These schools are north of the 16th parallel of south latitude or west of the 144th meridian of east longitude; or at Alpha, Aramac, Augathella, Barcaldine, Blackall, Cameron Downs, Charleville, Cunnamulla, Eulo, Hughenden, Ilfracombe, Isisford, Jericho, Longreach, Muttaburra, Prairie, Quilpie, Tambo, Wyandra or Yaraka.
		For information on Queensland public holidays and agricultural show days (which are set by the Department of Industrial Relations) telephone 1300 369 945 or visit the Department of Industrial Relations.
	education.qld.gov.au /public_media/calendar/holidays.html (245 words)

	O'Keefe, Cherry (Tjapun) - Australian Women Biographical entry
		In her early days she was well known as a fine horsewoman, and, at one time, as ‘the Queen of the Forest’.
		She lived a secluded and busy life on Poseidon Downs station, west of Hughenden, where she worked hard around the homestead for the privilege of living there in a galvanised iron humpy.
		After surviving flood, snakebite and burns (when her humpy was burnt down after a domestic accident), she died of pneumonia in Hughenden in 1977.
	www.womenaustralia.info /biogs/AWE1180b.htm (230 words)

	One Giant Mystery - Research Site at The University of Queensland
		This discovery by a University of Queensland palaeontologist came almost 90 years after the fossil fragments from a dicynodont skull were found at Hughenden in the west of the State.
		Dr Thulborn and his wife Dr Susan Turner, an honorary research associate at the Queensland Museum, found dicynodont fossils in the Cretaceous rocks of Queensland were only 105 million years old.
		The discovery was made after re-analysing fragments of a skull found in Hughenden in Queensland in 1914.
	www.uq.edu.au /research/?page=13271&pid=13238 (463 words)

	Rare fossil find on roadside \| The Courier-Mail
		Dr Cook was on a fossil-finding trip in northwest Queensland with fellow palaeontologists - Colin McHenry, from the University of Newcastle and Adam Morell of the Richmond Marine Fossil Museum, near Hughenden about 500km from Mt Isa - when he made the surprise find in 2004.
		The jaw fragment was from a pterosaur that had a wing span of two metres, which lived near an inland sea that flooded the Great Artesian Basin between 100 million to 250 million years ago.
		All three pterosaur jaw fragments found in Australia were discovered in Queensland.
	www.news.com.au /couriermail/story/0,,20689051-1248,00.html?from=rss (542 words)

	Porcupine Gorge National Park - EPA/QPWS
		The southern boundary of Porcupine Gorge is about 45km north of Hughenden.
		The unsealed Kennedy Development Road from Hughenden to Lyndhurst runs parallel to the western edge of the gorge and, when dry, is accessible to all vehicle types with care.
		The hottest months are October to February, when the average maximum temperature for this part of Queensland is often above 35 degrees Celsius.
	www.epa.qld.gov.au /parks_and_forests/find_a_park_or_forest/porcupine_gorge_national_park (894 words)

	AusEmade: Hughenden Information and Attractions, Queensland (QLD), Australia
		He named the location after Hughenden Manor, the home of his maternal grandfather in Buckinghamshire, England.
		The railway arrived in 1905 ensuring the towns prosperity, the shire today covers an area of some 41000 square km one of the largest in Queensland.
		The gorge is notable for its deep water pools, inhabited by tortoises and its flora which includes paperbarks and casuarinas.
	www.ausemade.com.au /qld/destination/h/hughenden-attractions.htm (278 words)

	Muttaburrasaurus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The species was initially described from a partial skeleton found by Doug Langdon in 1963 near Muttaburra, Queensland, Australia, which place also provides the creature's name.
		Reconstructed skeleton casts are on display at the Queensland Museum in Brisbane, the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum in Katsuyama, Japan, and at the Flinders Discovery Centre in Hughenden, Queensland.
		^ Bartholomai A andMolnar RE(1981) "Muttaburrasaurus: a new Iguanodontid (Ornithischia:Ornithopoda) dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Queensland".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Muttaburrasaurus (342 words)

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