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Coordinates: 20°44′0″S 139°30′0″E
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Population: 21,821 (2015)[1]
• Density: 347.47/km2 (899.9/sq mi)
Established: 1923
Postcode: 4825
Elevation: 356 m (1,168 ft)
Area: 62.8 km2 (24.2 sq mi)
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Location
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1,830 km (1,137 mi) NW of Brisbane
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904 km (562 mi) W of Townsville
Mean max temp: 31.8 °C 89 °F
Mean min temp: 17.3 °C 63 °F
Annual rainfall:54.3 mm 17.9 in
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​Mount Isa – where the outback lives
Mount Isa is affectionately tagged by locals as The Isa, and is described as where the outback lives. The city has forged its way from a pioneering lead and silver mining town when discovered in 1923 to a city of nearly 25,000 people, its population includes the highest income per resident in the outback region. Set on the banks of the Leichardt River, the city is a dramatic green contrast to the hardened red terrain.
With over 50 different nationalities represented, Mount Isa is a significant cosmopolitan centre for the region with substantial amenities and facilities. The city is renowned for the Mount Isa Rotary Rodeo which occurs in August each year. The Mount Isa Rotary Rodeo is the largest rodeo in the southern hemisphere.
Need help planning your holiday to Mount Isa to experience where the outback lives? Visit the Outback Holidays website.
We look forward to welcoming you to The Isa next time you fly!
Four Mile Hill Repeater Site -
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2m -VK4RMI, 146.7000Mhz, -600Khz
FM.,with IRLP 6921 & EchoLink. 971321
70cm - VK4RIC 439.975MHz, -5MHz Multimode Anaolog and DMR
APRS - 145.175 MHz digipeater VK4WII-1
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​Other SItes - Mount Isa
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Allstar Hub 623871
APRS - 145.175 MHz iGate VK4WII-5
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Other Sites - Cloncurry
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APRS - 145.175MHz iGate VK4WII-2
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Yes it rains in Mount isa like this in December 2016
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History
The Attorney General of Queensland, John Mullan, officially opened the railway line on 6 April 1929
Smelter interior, 1932
Township, 1932
Main street, ~1936
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.
It is said that a lone prospector, John Campbell Miles, stumbled upon one of the world's richest deposits of copper, silver and zinc during his 1923 expedition into the Northern Territory, but many people do not know that he was taken to the deposits by a young aboriginal man by the name of Kabalulumana (for whom an Indigenous person's hostel in Mount Isa is named).[9] When Miles inspected the yellow-black rocks in a nearby outcrop, they 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 their value. Miles and four farmers staked out the first claims in the area. Taken with friend's stories of the Mount Ida gold mines in Western Australia, Miles decided upon Mount Isa as the name for his new claim.
Mount Isa Post Office opened on 1 August 1924.[10]
A location for the town's hospital was chosen in 1929, with a small building completed the following year.[11] In 1931, a larger structure was moved to the site from the closed mining town of Kuridala.[11]
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