'Much impressed': Mount Isa's first mention in 1923

Derek Barry
Updated June 10 2022 - 11:24am, first published 10:53am
John Campbell Miles and Douglas MacGillivray on the Racecourse outcrop of the Mount Isa find in 1923.
John Campbell Miles and Douglas MacGillivray on the Racecourse outcrop of the Mount Isa find in 1923.

With Mount Isa celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2023, we have decided to go back through Trove newspapers to find early mentions of the town and surrounds.

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Derek Barry

Derek Barry

Editor, the North West Star

Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.

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