Longreach
So named from 1877 but flooding prompted a change of site and in 1880 the name was changed to Winton, after the birthplace of the first settler, Robert Allen; it is about 170 km north west of Longreach. Reader's Digest, Reader's Digest Book of the Road, Sydney, 1999, p.253. Aplin, Graeme , Foster, S.G.,Mckernan, Michaely, Australians Events and Places, Sydney, 1987, p.333. Whittown So named by James and William Whitman, two brothers who spened a store on the Barcoo River; renamed Isisford in 1878, about 90 km south of Longreach. Reader's Digest, Illustrated Guide to Australian Places, Sydney, 1993, p.483. Wittown Now called Isisford about 110km west of Blackall. Levey, George Collins, Hutchinson's Australasion Encyclopaedia, London, 1892, p.166. Yuranigh Ponds Named by Mitchell after his Aboriginal friend and guide; now called the Tank Creek, a tributary of the Barcoo near Isisford. Mitchell, Thomas, Journal of an expedition into the interior of tropical Australia, in search of a route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria, London, 1848, p.327, map facing p.188. Foster, William C., Sir Thomas Livingston Mitchell and his World, 1792-1855, Sydney, 1985, p.404. |