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North Queensland

Mount Surprise

Approaching Mt Surprise

Ezra Firth took up Mount Surprise sheep run in 1861. Firth converted to cattle after selling his sheep profitably on the new Palmer River Goldfield in 1873. When the Etheridge Railway was built from Almaden to Forsayth in 1910, the Queensland Government resumed a section of the property for Mount Surprise township. In the same year the Junction Creek telegraph office, built in 1871, was moved to the town.