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Outback Education Handbook PDF - Tourism Queensland

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Ancient <strong>Outback</strong><br />

From the weather-worn crags of sun-drenched escarpments<br />

to the treasures buried beneath the dry bed of a long lost<br />

inland sea, <strong>Queensland</strong>’s <strong>Outback</strong> tells of a land before time.<br />

Rich in its diversity, the traces of Gondwana and 144 million<br />

years of evolution are clearly visible to the keen explorer.<br />

Scratch the surface and the bones of dinosaurs readily reveal<br />

the secrets of one such ancient epoch. Rock wall markings<br />

carry the stories of ancestral connections to the earth’s oldest<br />

surviving culture. And on a star-lit night it is simply mindblowing<br />

to look up and know this vast land is only one small<br />

part of the great glimmering cosmos above.<br />

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Aboriginal Heritage<br />

Powerful images portray land of The Dreaming....................040<br />

Cosmology<br />

Heaven’s above - What’s that star?......................................042<br />

Dinosaurs<br />

Earth gives up its long lost giants.........................................044<br />

Dinosaurs of Richmond<br />

Marine reptiles surface after 100 million years.......................046<br />

Lark Quarry<br />

Dinosaur panic thunders down through the ages.................048<br />

OCKHAMPTON<br />

96<br />

GLADSTONE<br />

BILOELA<br />

BANANA<br />

MIRIAM VALE<br />

TAROOM<br />

THEODORE<br />

MONTO<br />

EIDSVOLD<br />

GIN GIN<br />

GAYNDAH<br />

MUNDUBBERA<br />

BUNDABERG<br />

CHILDERS<br />

MARYBOROUGH<br />

GYMPIE<br />

MILES<br />

CHINCHILLA<br />

KINGAROY<br />

NAMBOUR<br />

127<br />

129<br />

113<br />

MOONIE<br />

DALBY<br />

84<br />

OAKEY<br />

PITTSWORTH<br />

TOOWOOMBA 122<br />

IPSWICH<br />

BRISBANE<br />

97<br />

MILMERRAN<br />

WARWICK<br />

TWEED HEADS<br />

INGLEWOOD<br />

OONDIWINDI<br />

123<br />

TEXAS<br />

TENTERFIELD<br />

LISMORE<br />

BALLINA<br />

<strong>Queensland</strong>’s <strong>Outback</strong> <strong>Education</strong> <strong>Handbook</strong> | Ancient <strong>Outback</strong> 039<br />

GRAFTON

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