Sunset Lookout - QLD

Sunset Lookout provides visitors with a vantage point from which can be seen the distinctive geological character of this area.
Mount Walker is a sandstone tabletop formation that rises from a broad
Archaeological excavations regularly uncover fossils and make new contributions
black soil plain. The black basalt to be found throughout the area is the
to the existing body of knowledge of species such as the Hughenden sauropod. This
remnant of ash and lava, the result of former volcanic activity. There are also animal was a plant-eating dinosaur with a very long neck and tail, measuring 20-22 seams of shale oil and sand residue far belowground, which remain from an
metres in length and potentially weighing up to 50 tonnes.
earlier geological period when the landscape throughout the Hughenden area was that of an extensive inland sea with a coastal climate.
As its name suggests, the view from Sunset Lookout is at its best at close of day, when it offers photographers a wealth of colour and light to capture and the
In the past 500 million years this area has been covered on three separate
general visitor the chance to more fully appreciate the beauty of the local
occasions by inland oceans, which left behind many fossil deposits. The
landscape. In winter the night skies colour to a purple pink haze and in summer
Flinders district is home to numerous significant palaeontological finds,
blazing red and orange sunsets can be seen.
ranging from the 1987 discovery of a Muttaburrasaurus skull near Hughenden by Dr Mary Wade, to Cretaceous-era pliosaurs, pterosaurs and marine species such as ichthyosaurs and giant turtles (Cratochelone).