Camooweal

Camooweal is located on the Queensland-Northern Territory border, 330 kilometres south of Burketown, 188 kilometres from Mount Isa and 440 kilometres from the Stuart Highway in the Northern Territory. Camooweal proudly declares itself ''Gateway to the Northern Territory/Queensland''. The road from Mount Isa to the town, known to locals as ''Tojo''s Highway'', was built during World War II with American funds and was originally designed as a link between the southern states and the theoretical ''front line'' in the Northern Territory. The explorer William Landsborough was the first European to pass through the Camooweal area. At the time (1862) he