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Things to Do
Mount Isa's best stops are tied to mining, geology, wartime improvisation, and outback water.
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Museum
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01
Outback at Isa
Outback at Isa is the practical first stop in Mount Isa and the best single place to understand why the city exists. The complex …
Museum
02
Underground Hospital
Mount Isa's Underground Hospital was dug in 1942 after the bombing of Darwin, when the town's copper mine was considered a possible wartime target. …
Museum
03
Mount Isa Rodeo
The Mount Isa Rodeo is the city's biggest annual event and one of Australia's major rodeos. For a few days in August the city …
04
Riversleigh Fossil Discovery Centre
The Riversleigh Fossil Discovery Centre brings the remote World Heritage fossil fields into town. Riversleigh itself is hundreds of kilometres away, but the centre …
Museum
05
City Lookout
City Lookout, also known as John Campbell Miles Memorial Lookout, is the quick way to read Mount Isa from above. The mine stack, low …
Sight
06
Lake Moondarra
Lake Moondarra is Mount Isa's outback water break, about 16 km from town. Built as a water supply dam on the Leichhardt River, it …
Sight