Cloncurry Airport Cloncurry Airport Cloncurry Airport is an airport in Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia. Cloncurry Airport has been the focal point for many of Australia’s greatest innovations. Cloncurry was involved with the beginnings of QANTAS, and the original QANTAS hangar is still in use at the aerodrome, where "Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Service" is still displayed above the hangar door. The Royal Flying Doctor Service was founded there in 1928, now recognised the world over. The airport was also on route for early planes coming from overseas and a stopping place for contestants in the great air races of 1919 and 1934.
Duchess, Queensland Duchess, Queensland Duchess is a town and a locality in the Shire of Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia. The town is in the east of the locality. The Cloncurry Duchess Road passes through the locality from south to east, passing through the town. The Great Northern railway passes through the locality from east to north-west, passing through the town which is served by the Duchess railway station. The area has a train platform which leads to Cloncurry and Mount Isa. Duchess is surrounded by a series of stations including Mayfield station and Stradbroke station. In the north of the locality, there is