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Chinchilla - Cities, Towns and Localities

‘Melon Capital of Australia’

Chinchilla is a small town on the Queensland Darling Downs with the largest melon industry in Australia. Watermelons, rock melons, dew melons, if you buy one at your local fruiterer you can nearly be sure it comes from this town. 25% of Australia's melon crop is grown in Chinchilla.

Each year they have their Melon Festival with you guessed it a Big Melon competition. There are many other competitions again featuring melons. The festival has become a runaway success and given the town a reputation for fun and friendliness to tourists coming to experience this festival with a difference.

The name Chinchilla is believed to have come from the word "Jinchilla" an aboriginal word for Cypress Pine this termite resistant timber grows locally around the region.

Another item of interest is the rare and beautiful White Gum tree (Eucalyptus argophloia) which has only ever been found around Chinchilla, sping brings a profusion of flowers to this native tree.

The Condamine River flows nearby and is popular with the locals for fishing.

For additional accommodation, attraction, tours and other information visit the:

Chinchilla Tourist Information Centre
Chinchilla Street
CHINCHILLA QLD 4413
Ph: 07 4668 9564

Chinchilla Attractions

Boonargo Cactoblastis Hall
• 10 km east of Chinchilla on the Warrego Highway is the hall built by local farmers to honour the cactoblastis moth and larva from South America that was bred and distributed in Chinchilla and distributed throughout Australia to combat the cactus commonly known as Prickly Pear which had overrun approximately 24 million hectares of inland Australia.

Chinchilla Folk Museum
• One of the most extensive rural museums in Queensland in terms of the variety of steam engines and other transport and industrial items on display and working. The museum is also home to a photocopy of the first QANTAS air ticket ever issued. The original one is located in a vault in the nearby bank.

Petrified Wood
• Examples of fossilised can be found right in the centre of town at the central park. The wood is commonly known as Chinchilla Red contact the Tourist Information Centre for more information.

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Chinchilla Shire Council
• The Chinchilla Shire boasts an area of approximately 300 km west of Brisbane. The Warrego Highway traverses the lush and productive Darling Downs region, carries the traveller to this warm and friendly township and then runs on to the great expanse of Western Queensland - the legendary “Outback”. The Council operates from its town offices in Heeney Street, the heart of Chinchilla.