Royal Hotel, Birdsville linked to pedal generators, the others being placed at 4 head stations in far western Queensland and at the Aboriginal Mission at Mornington Island, with base station VJI established at Cloncurry. For the first 18 months, communication was by Morse code, but the system proved enormously popular, and soon revolutionised outback communications. Importantly, Birdsville became reliably connected to the station properties in the Diamantina district, and with the new Aerial Medical Service, established by Flynn in 1928 under the auspices of the AIM, and based at Cloncurry. In 1934, nursing sisters Edna McLean and Amy Bishop of the AIM's Birdsville
Stokes, Queensland change in elevation within a very long distance and is of interest to tourists both as a lookout over the surrounding countryside and because they find the name amusing. The locality is named after John Lort Stokes , who was commanding officer of HMS Beagle from 1841 to 1846. Stokes, Queensland Stokes is a locality in the Shire of Carpentaria, Queensland, Australia. In the , Stokes had a population of 84 people. The Leichhardt River forms the western boundary of the locality. Together with the Alexandra River, the Cloncurry River, the Flinders River and the Saxby River and numerous creeks,