Richmond Travel Guide
Richmond accommodation, Richmond activities and attractions, Richmond maps, transportation to and around Richmond - the ALL NEW Jasons Richmond Destination Travel Guide is your complete visitor guide for Richmond.
Richmond is situated on the Overlander's Way (Flinders Highway) halfway between
Townsville and
Mount Isa. For travellers it is an 'Oasis in the Outback' with colourful bougainvillea-lined streets and parks, quality accommodation and a recreational lake providing fishing, swimming and watersports all year round. Richmond is home to the major Outback award-winning attraction
Kronosaurus Korner Fossil Centre, the only museum in Australia primarily dedicated to displaying marine reptiles as well as a 100-million-year-old armoured dinosaur, Minmi, considered to be Australia's best preserved dinosaur skeleton, with impressions of its fossilised skin.
Richmond is also home to 'moon rocks' – limestone spheres carrying the fossilised remains of fish, shells and trees in their cores. A monument created from moon rocks celebrates the completion of the bitumen sealing of the Flinders Highway in 1976.
Geographic Location
500km West of
Townsville
Population
750
Climate
Subtropical
Summer
22 – 37°C
Winter
9 – 27°C
Rainfall
480mm/year (December - May)