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Camooweal is a small town in north-western Queensland, Australia, located north-west of the city of Mount Isa and east of the Northern Territory border. Local government is provided by the Mount Isa City Council. The town lies on the Barkly Highway, and is adjacent to the Georgina River. At the 2011 census, Camooweal had a population of 187. ==History== The area was originally inhabited by the Indjilandji Indigenous Australians.〔Roberts, Tony ''Frontier Justice: A history of the Gulf Country to 1900'', UQP, 2005, p 3, ISBN 978-0-7022-3361-6〕〔http://www.nntt.gov.au/News-and-Communications/Newsletters/State-E-Newsletters-Archive/Documents/State%20e-newsletter%20TNT%20Qld%20March%202003.pdf〕 The town is said to take its name from surveyor Mr GT Weale, who was apparently the first person to bring camels into the area,〔http://www.abc.net.au/queensland/federation/stories/s402975.htm〕 although this has been questioned.〔http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article23266174〕 William Landsborough in 1861 named the Barkly Tablelands after the Governor of Victoria, His Excellency, Sir Henry Barkly. The first settler to the area was John Sutherland, who took up the Rocklands lease in 1865. Stock losses to the local dingos and wedge-tailed eagles; lack of water and isolation soon forced him to abandon his lease. The Englishmen Benjamin Crosthwaite and William Tetley, who were marginally more successful, took up the lease again in 1876. The initial town was gazetted in 1884 to be built on a plot by Lake Francis. A year later the present site was re-gazetted and Camooweal Post Office opened on 27 April 1885. Other milestones for the town were the addition of a police station in 1886, opening of a provisional school in 1893, drilling of the town bore in 1897 and the arrival of electricity in 1952. The road through Camooweal to the Northern Territory was the inland defence route for World War II. This road was built by army engineers and carried over 1000 vehicles a day and there are numerous historical sites marked along the road. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Camooweal」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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