Eromanga, Queensland

Eromanga is a small town in Queensland. Eromanga 316 kilometers from Quilpie 126 km from Charleville and can be reached from Highway from Opal. Near the village there are oil wells in the Eromanga Basin, which promote 1.5 million barrels of oil. In the vicinity of the place also opals are found.

In the resort, the Old Royal Hotel is of 1885. It is the only building from the early days of Australia, which has been preserved, and from the transport company Cobb & Co was approached. In the 1870s, Eromanga was appointed to the city, have been found as opals and then increase the population to about 300 people.

There is an outdoor area on the machine are exhibited which were used in Opalbergbau. In the adjacent museum there are a Living History Centre with historic pictures and museumsnah a park with mineral finds.

Eromanga was 2010/2011 strongly affected by the floods in Queensland.

Eromanga is the place that is farthest from a surrounding Australia Ocean.