Mount Isa Tourism, QLD Australia
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Mount Isa Fast Facts
- State: QLD
- District: Brisbane
- Famous for/as: City
- Population: 22,091
- Area: 43 310 square kilometres
- Altitude: 356 m
- Language: English
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- Pincode: 4825
- STDCode: 07
Mount Isa Info
Mount Isa City Council
PO Box 815
Mount Isa QLD 4825
phone on: (07) 4747 3200.
Email: city@mountisa.qld.gov.au.
Mount Isa, Australia Overview
Mount Isa City covers an area of over 43 310 square kilometres, making it geographically the second largest city in Australia to Kalgoorlie-Boulder WA. With a population of approximately 21,000, Mount Isa is a major service centre for North West Queensland, and a thriving city well equipped to satisfy residential, business and industrial needs.
Located within the Mount Isa City boundary is the town of Camooweal - "The Western Gateway to Queensland". Camooweal is approximately 200 kilometres to the west of Mount Isa and its main street is actually the highway, making it the longest street in the world!
The major retail chains in Mount Isa include K-Mart, Coles, Best & Less, Rockmans, Sports Power, Mathers Shoes, Super Cheap Auto, Retravision, Harvey Norman, Autobarn and Woolworths are represented together with a wide range of specialist retailers.
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Mount Isa, Australia History
The land around the present day city of Mount Isa was home to the Kalkadoon aboriginal tribe. The Kalkadoon tribe led a subsistence lifestyle on this land that the white settlers looked at as nothing but poor grazing land, with the odd mineral deposit. As settlers and prospectors pressed further into their lands the Kalkadoon tribe members set out on one of Australia's most successful guerrilla wars in a fight for their lands. Their success continued until at Battle Mountain in 1884, with what some historians have called a rush of blood, the tribe attacked a fortified position in large numbers and suffered terrible losses. The weakened state of the tribe made their land more vulnerable to the settlers and soon much of the land was lost. Armed patrols chasing the surviving tribe members and poor grazing lands for the settlers made times hard in the area over the following decades.
The lone gold prospector John Campbell Miles stumbled upon one of the world's richest deposits of copper, silver and zinc upon during his 1923 expedition into the Northern Territory. While camping on the banks of the Leichhardt River, Miles found the yellow-black rocks in a nearby outcrop reminded him of the ore found in the Broken Hill mine that he had once worked at. Upon inspection these rocks were weighty and heavily mineralised. A sample sent away to the assayer in Cloncurry confirmed that Miles had hit the jackpot. He and four farmers turned miners staked out the first claims in the area. Taken with friend stories of the Mount Ida gold mines in Western Australia, Miles decided upon Mount Isa as the name for his new claim.