Winton is an outback town and locality in the Shire of Winton in Central West Queensland, Australia. It is 177 kilometres (110 mi) northwest of Longreach. The main industries of the area are sheep and cattle raising. The town was named in 1876 by postmaster Robert Allen, after his place of birth, Winton, Dorset. Winton was the first home of the airline Qantas. In the 2021 census, the locality of Winton had a population of 856 people.
Elderslie Street
Catholic Church and Convent, early 1900s
At the races in Winton, Queensland, ca. 1890
The flooding in Winton in 1906 broke records.
The Outback is a remote, vast, sparsely populated area of Australia. The Outback is more remote than the bush. While often envisaged as being arid, the Outback regions extend from the northern to southern Australian coastlines and encompass a number of climatic zones, including tropical and monsoonal climates in northern areas, arid areas in the "red centre" and semi-arid and temperate climates in southerly regions. The total population is estimated at 607,000 people.
View across sand plains and salt pans to Mount Conner, Central Australia
Tourism sign post in Yalgoo, Western Australia
MacDonnell Ranges in the Northern Territory are found in the centre of the mainland
Fitzgerald River National Park in Western Australia
