Cosmos Centre at Charleville.
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Charleville is situated on the Landsborough Highway, known by travellers as the Matilda Highway.
The town has a population of 3500, making it the largest town in the Murweh Shire. Other towns include Augathella, with a population of 400 people, Morven with 230 people and Cooladdi with just five people.
The shire has four artesian bores. Artesian water is essential to the town's survival, as the average rainfall of the area is just 491mm a year. The temperature in winter ranges from -3 to 20 degrees C, and in summer from 20 to 40 degrees C. Properties vary in size from 25,000 acres to 40,000 acres.
When you visit, don't miss Charleville's greatest attraction, the amazing Cosmos Centre. Shows, interactive displays and telescopes are all part of this brand new centre.
Tour the School of Distance Education and find out how schooling is achieved even when students live hundreds of kilometres from their school.
Visit the Royal Flying Doctor Base and tour its visitors centre.
Also, see Australia's little battler bandicoot, the bilby, during a "Meet the Bilby" tour . |
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Stories:
Indulge your tastebuds while visiting a national treasure
First stop in town - the visitor information centre
Entertainment and warm hospitality
Race days are memorable in Charleville
Lesson time, but where are the students?
Bringing generations of expertise to business
Cosmos Centre brings sense of wonder
Bringing the bilby back from the brink
Doctors with wings offer an amazing service
Historic building holds town's museum pieces
Sniffing out good coffee ... your nose knows
Top place for a meal or a few drinks
Go fishing with a local
Town's past comes to life on a heritage walk
Gunning for rain ... unsuccessfully
AUGATHELLA: Visit the township of Augathella
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