Welcome to Mount Isa – the oasis of the outback

underground adventures to breathtaking sunsets,

Known as The Isa to locals, Mount Isa sits like a mirage in the vast ochre-coloured desert in the heart of outback Queensland. Instead of palm-tree lined banks, waters of the Leichhardt

You’re spoilt for choice camping and breathtaking but if four-wheeling through the bush terrain to explore as well. see and do in this bustling,

GETTING TO THE ISA

Townsville, making it the ideal destination starting point for an outback adventure.

There are accommodation options in town, with Located in the heart of the Hotel, which is worth an to shops and cafes, and well-appointed rooms. to the Isa Hotel for a pre

EXPLORE A MINE

Look into the rich mining an underground tour of the cage and descend to the depths of the replica mine, what it’s like to work deep in the earth. Get a close hand at the airdrill to feel blast the mine wall.

UNDERGROUND WARD

Step back in time on a guided tour of Mount Isa Underground Hospital as a wartime hospital for explore the tunnels that make up the 40-bed clinic. Part of the hospital is the Beth Anderson Museum, and a real human skeleton.

LAKE MOONDARRA

Moondarra sits 17kms out of town and is a popular place to swim, boat, sail and

sites to set up a picnic and something special, book outback sunset.

FOSSIL FINDING

Discover one of the world’s richest sites of fossil deposits on a visit upgraded centre houses as well as innovative experts tell stories in the

movie theatre or wander through an impressive diorama to see what this ancient world looked like direct with Qantas from Townsville to Mount Isa, regional Queensland’s