Local Government Area
McKinlay
Population
549 (2021 census)
Area
6,184.32 km²
Coordinates
-20.6601, 141.6481
Data
Based on Australian Bureau of Statistics ASGS boundaries, licensed under CC BY 4.0.

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About Julia Creek

Julia Creek is an outback town and locality in the Shire of McKinlay in Queensland, on the Flinders Highway between Mount Isa and Townsville, about 664 km west of Townsville. The town began as a railway terminus in 1907 when the line was extended to service the Cloncurry copper mines, and it is associated with the endangered Julia Creek dunnart, a small marsupial rediscovered there in 1991.

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