McKinlay, Queensland McKinlay, Queensland McKinlay is a town and locality in McKinlay Shire, Queensland, Australia. At the 2011 census, McKinlay and the surrounding pastoral area had a population of 417. McKinlay is in the remote north west of Queensland and on the Landsborough Highway north west of the state capital Brisbane and south east of the regional centre of Mount Isa. McKinlay is named for the nearby McKinlay River—itself named for its European discoverer, the Scottish explorer John McKinlay who passed by the area in 1861. Gold was discovered in the area in 1872 and a letter receiving office was opened in
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