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Furthest town from the sea in Australia
- Eromanga is famous on several counts, firstly for being the furthest town from the sea in Australia and secondly for the significant palaeontological discoveries of Australia’s largest dinosaurs on a property near Eromanga.
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Eromanga is a rural town in Quilpie. Famous for being Australia's furthest town from the ocean, Eromanga is located 108 kilometres west of Quilpie on a fully sealed road. Sustained by surrounding pastoral properties, some of which are over 8,000 square kilometres, Eromanga is also home to the Eromanga Oil and Gas Basin, which produces around ...
Australia's South West Queensland's Channel Country is home to Australia’s largest dinosaur fossil discoveries, the 95 million year old Eromanga dinosaurs. These exciting new dinosaurs are some of the world’s largest dinosaurs! The Old Royal Hotel, built in 1885, is one of the town's original buildings and was once a Cobb & Co. staging post.
- Their name. The name ‘Eromanga’ comes from the Aboriginal word for ‘Windy Plain’, and if you’ve ever been to Eromanga on a windy day you will totally understand how it got its name!
- It’s a long way from the sea. In fact, Eromanga has the claim to fame of being the furthest town from the sea in Australia. It is situated 860km northeast of the Coral Sea, which is part of the South Pacific Ocean.
- The town is 141 years old. Well almost anyway! Eromanga was gazetted as a town in March 1879, so next month it will be turning 141! Eromanga began as a busy opal mining town and once boasted a population of around 500 people.
- Home to Australia’s largest Dinosaur. That’s right! Not satisfied with having one claim to fame as the ‘furthest town from the sea’, in 2007 the largest bones of any known dinosaur in Australia were discovered on a property west of Eromanga.
About Eromanga. Eromanga is famous on several counts, firstly for being the furthest town from the sea in Australia and secondly for the significant palaeontological discoveries of Australia’s largest dinosaurs on a property near Eromanga. Several dinosaurs have been unearthed and the bones are now displayed in the Eromanga Natural History ...
Things to see and do in Eromanga. Eromanga is famous on several counts, firstly for being the furthest town from the sea in Australia and secondly for the significant palaeontological discoveries of Australia’s largest dinosaurs on a property near Eromanga.
Dinosaur fossils, including Australia's largest dinosaur a titanosaur species of sauropod, have also been found here making it an area of interest for palaeontologists. [4] It is located on Ngandangara territory. Eromanga has been touted as the town in Australia located the farthest from any ocean. [5]
The Eromanga Natural History Museum is an educational and tourism development committed to discovering, conserving and showcasing the fossil, natural and cultural heritage from the prehistoric and modern-day environments of the upper Murray/Darling and Lake Eyre/Cooper basins.
