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Charleville: Royal Flying Doctor Service office
The Royal Flying Doctor Service office in Charleville, Queensland, Austl.
Charleville
Queensland, Australia
Charleville, town, south-central Queensland, Australia. It lies along the Warrego River at an elevation of 974 feet (297 metres).
The town was settled in 1842 and named for Charleville (Ráth Luirc), Ireland. It developed as a service centre for the sheep belt. The first regular Qantas air route in Australia—between Charleville and Cloncurry—was inaugurated in 1922, and the town remains a major outback air base for the Royal Flying Doctor Service. For a time during World War II, the Charleville airfield was a storage and maintenance site for U.S. bombers used in the Allied Pacific campaign. Pop. (2006) urban centre, 3,278; (2011) urban centre, 3,318.
This article was most recently revised and updated by Lorraine Murray.
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