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8 unusual facts about Charters Towers


Campaspe River

Note that Campaspe River can also refer to a lesser known 376 km long tributary of Cape River in Queensland, Australia near Charters Towers.

Charters Towers

The Northern Miner newspaper (not to be confused with The Northern Miner, a mining publication in Canada) was first published in August 1872, just eight months after the discovery of gold.

Charters Towers Excelsior Library

Charters Towers Excelsior Library is the local library in Charters Towers in North Queensland, Australia.

Cryptostegia grandiflora

In some areas near Charters Towers, this rust has infected most rubber vine plants, but its effect has not been great enough to stop the spread of the plant westwards.

Isidor Lissner

Lissner was born in Posen, and emigrated in 1856 to Victoria (Australia), where, after a varied experience on the gold diggings, he went to New Zealand and subsequently to Queensland, where he first settled at Ravenswood, Queensland and then moved to Charters Towers.

Langlands foundry

The company's products including stamper batteries and ore crushing mills, which could found distributed over Australasia from Charters Towers to the Thames goldfields of New Zealand.

Ray Melikian

A portion of one of the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk aircraft Ray Melikian flew during World War II is also displayed at the Museum of Charters Towers.

The Northern Miner

There is also a "The Northern Miner" newspaper in Charters Towers, Queensland which publishes Tues and Friday each week.


Cecil Elphinstone

After receiving his education at Forest House College, Woodford, he worked briefly for the Bank of England before travelling to Charters Towers, Queensland in 1892.

Lake Eyre basin

It rises in the form of two central Queensland rivers, the Thomson between Longreach and Charters Towers, and the Barcoo in the area around Barcaldine, about 500 kilometres inland from Rockhampton.


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