Flinders Highway, Queensland

Flinders Highway is a highway that crosses Queensland from east to west, from Townsville on the Pacific coast to Cloncurry (Barkly Highway continues from Cloncurry to the Northern Territory border at Camooweal and beyond). Flinders Highway and passes a number of small outback towns. Typical outback landscape predominates towards the inland. Formerly National Route 78, Queensland began to convert to the alphanumeric system much of Australia had adopted in the early-2000s and is now designated as A6. Flinders Highway is also known as Overlander's Way.

Charters Towers 133 km to the south west from Townsville. A former gold rush town with a population of 30 000 in 1890. At that time it was known as "The World" because it seemed to be the centre of everything. Presently it is centre for cattle grazing, with gold mining continuing to be an important industry. Much of the elegant gold rush architecture of the nineteenth remains in place and is a tourist attraction.

Hughenden Located 243 km further on, Hughenden, the administrative centre of Flinders shire is in the heart of sheep and cattle country.

Richmond A former gold rush town located 112 km further west. Currently a pastoral centre.

Julia Creek147 km further west, another pastoral settlement

Cloncurry A former copper-mining town located 139 km west from Julia Creek. The first regular Qantas flights started between here and Charleville in 1922 and Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia service started here in 1928. It is nowadays an important road and rail junction. Flinders Highway ends here.