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Quilpie is a town and locality situated in the Channel Country of South West Queensland. The economy of the area is based on the grazing and mining industries. The area has one of the largest deposits of boulder opal in the world, and also has extensive deposits of gas and oil.
Quilpie was gazetted as a town in 1917 owing to the railway that was laid down from Brisbane. It takes its name from the Indigenous Australian word for stone curlew, quilpeta. The first post office was opened in 1921. Two years later the telephone reached Quilpie and in 1927 the first court house in the town was established.
Description source:
Wikipedia
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Digital Image ID 5280