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Timothy John Winton is an Australian writer of novels, children's books, non-fiction books, and short stories. In 1997 he was named a Living Treasure by the National Trust, and has won the Miles Franklin Award four times.
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  • 1. Australian Age of Dinosaurs Winton
    Australian Age of Dinosaurs Ltd is a not for profit organisation located in Winton, Queensland and founded by David and Judy Elliott in 2002. The organisation’s activities include operation of the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum of Natural History which holds annual dinosaur digs in the Winton Formation of western Queensland and oversees the year-round operation of Australia’s most productive dinosaur fossil preparation laboratory. Since 2005, the AAOD Museum has accumulated the largest collection of Australian dinosaur fossils in the world and holds the holotype specimens of Diamantinasaurus matildae , Savannasaurus elliottorum , and Australovenator wintonensis , Australia’s most complete theropod skeleton. The museum is open to the public daily from April to end September and op...
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  • 2. Dinosaur Stampede at Lark Quarry Conservation Park Winton
    Dinosaur Stampede National Monument at Lark Quarry Conservation Park in Australia is considered to be the site of the world's only known record of a dinosaur stampede, with fossilised footprints are interpreted as a predator stalking and causing a stampede of around 150 two-legged dinosaurs. This interpretation has been challenged in recent years, with evidence suggesting it may have been a natural river crossing In 2015 Shire of Winton invited the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum of Natural History to take over the operation of public guided tours at Dinosaur Stampede National Monument. This joint initiative, implemented in April 2016, provides visitors with a broader understanding of unique Australian dinosaurs and the world they inhabited. In 2016 Dinosaur Stampede National Monument r...
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  • 3. Waltzing Matilda Centre Winton
    Waltzing Matilda is Australia's best-known bush ballad, and has been described as the country's unofficial national anthem.The title was Australian slang for travelling on foot with one's belongings in a matilda slung over one's back. The song narrates the story of an itinerant worker, or swagman, making a drink of billy tea at a bush camp and capturing a stray jumbuck to eat. When the jumbuck's owner, a squatter , and three mounted policemen pursue the swagman for theft, he declares You'll never catch me alive! and commits suicide by drowning himself in a nearby billabong , after which his ghost haunts the site. The original lyrics were written in 1895 by Australian poet Banjo Paterson, and were first published as sheet music in 1903. Extensive folklore surrounds the song and the process ...
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  • 4. Bladensburg National Park Winton
    Bladensburg is a national park in Shire of Winton, Queensland, Australia.
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  • 6. Winton Diamantina HeritageTruck & Machinery Museum Winton
    Winton is a town and locality in the Shire of Winton in Central West Queensland, Australia. It is 177 kilometres northwest of Longreach. The main industries of the area are sheep and cattle raising. The town was named in 1876 by postmaster Robert Allen, after his place of birth, Winton, Dorset. Winton was the first home of the airline Qantas.
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  • 8. Corfield & Fitzmaurice General Merchants Winton
    Corfield & Fitzmaurice Store is a heritage-listed former general store and now visitor centre at 63 Elderslie Street, Winton, Shire of Winton, Queensland, Australia. It was built in 1916. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
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  • 9. Royal Theatre Winton
    The Paragon China Company was a British manufacturer of bone china from 1919 to 1960, based in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, previously known as the Star China Company, and more recently part of the Royal Doulton group. Paragon was noted for producing high quality teaware and tableware, and was granted royal warrants of appointment by several members of the British Royal Family.
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