Talaroo Hot Springs
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Talaroo Hot Springs on Talaroo Station between Einasleigh and Mt Surprise — the only mound springs in Australia not fed by the Great Artesian Basin — are a complex of vents which discharge water heated at depth by granitic rock from a semi-confined aquifer with its source in the Newcastle Range. While they were known in the late nineteenth century, their isolated location meant they were and were infrequently visited — usually by by small groups of highly motivated visitors — until the present tourist-oriented operation hosted by the Ewamian Aboriginal Corporation opened well into the 21st century.
Sources:
Peter Griggs , ‘Taking the Waters’: Mineral Springs, Artesian Bores and Health Tourism in
Queensland, 1870–1950 https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/30994/1/S1321816613000184a.pdf
Peter Negus, Colonial history of Talaroo Hot Springs, North Queensland Naturalist 51 (2021) https://search.informit.org/doi/pdf/10.3316/informit.330785471183142
Talaroo.com: Hot Springs https://www.talaroo.com.au/hot-springs
A. J. Vogan, The Einasleigh hot-springs. The World’s News 30 Apr. 1921 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/128694607
Wetlands Australia 35: Talaroo Hot Springs: A unique wetland with distinctive biodiversity https://www.dcceew.gov.au/water/wetlands/publications/wetlands-australia/february-2022/talaroo-hot-springs
Image: Talaroo Hot Springs, 2023
Ian Cochrane, CC BY 2.0
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