Sunset Lookout - QLD

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Position

DEG: -20.943122 144.197953
DMS: 20º 56' 35.24" S 144º 11' 52.63" E
UTM: 55 K 7681599mN 208589mE
Altitude: 474.21m

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Hughenden QLD 4821
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Sunset Lookout provides visitors with a vantage point from which can be seen the distinctive geological character of this area. Mount Walker is a sandstone tabletop formation that rises from a broad Archaeological excavations regularly uncover fossils and make new contributions black soil plain. The black basalt to be found throughout the area is the to the existing body of knowledge of species such as the Hughenden sauropod. This remnant of ash and lava, the result of former volcanic activity. There are also animal was a plant-eating dinosaur with a very long neck and tail, measuring 20-22 seams of shale oil and sand residue far belowground, which remain from an metres in length and potentially weighing up to 50 tonnes. earlier geological period when the landscape throughout the Hughenden area was that of an extensive inland sea with a coastal climate. As its name suggests, the view from Sunset Lookout is at its best at close of day, when it offers photographers a wealth of colour and light to capture and the In the past 500 million years this area has been covered on three separate general visitor the chance to more fully appreciate the beauty of the local occasions by inland oceans, which left behind many fossil deposits. The landscape. In winter the night skies colour to a purple pink haze and in summer Flinders district is home to numerous significant palaeontological finds, blazing red and orange sunsets can be seen. ranging from the 1987 discovery of a Muttaburrasaurus skull near Hughenden by Dr Mary Wade, to Cretaceous-era pliosaurs, pterosaurs and marine species such as ichthyosaurs and giant turtles (Cratochelone).
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Closest Weather Station

Hughenden at 22/12:00am EST
Distance from Sunset Lookout 14.25km N
TemperatureFeels LikeRel. HumidityDew PointPressureRainfallWind DirectionWind SpeedGusts
24.0°C23.2°C71%18.4°C1011.9hPa-mmENE20km/hr
11knots
km/hr
knots

Closest Climatic Station

Hughenden Airport
Distance from Sunset Lookout 14.25km N
 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Mean Max. °C35.234.934.131.828.425.725.727.932.235.136.237.1
Mean Min. °C23.322.721.217.912.810.49.010.315.418.521.623.2
Mean Rain mm142.682.430.323.46.620.913.410.09.715.253.584.8

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