Jundah

Jundah is a town and a locality in the Shire of Barcoo, Queensland, Australia.

Jundah is a town and a locality in the Shire of Barcoo, Queensland, Australia. Jundah is the administrative centre of the Barcoo Shire local government area. In the 2016 census, Jundah had a population of 106 people.

Kuungkari (also known as Kungkari and Koonkerri) is a language of Western Queensland. The Kuungkari language region includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of Longreach Shire Council and Blackall-Tambo Shire Council.The outback town was established in 1883 and given a name meaning "woman" in a local Aboriginal language.Jundah was first settled by pastoralists Patrick Durack (on Thylungra) and his brother-in-law John Costello (on Kyabra).In 1873 Jundah was acquired by grazier William Pitt Tozer, who built a homestead on the land. From 1875 to 1880 the Jundah homestead was utilised by the paramilitary Native Police as their main barracks on the lower Thomson River.Jundah Post Office opened on 26 June 1877 (a receiving office named Jundah Police Barracks had been open from 1876).Jundah State School opened on 30 April 1900.Jundah was home to an opal mining industry for around twenty years in the early twentieth century before the industry closed down due to water shortages.The Jundah Library opened in 2005.At the 2011 census, Jundah and surrounds had a population of 350.

The Barcoo Shire Museum is on the corner of Miles and Macrossan Streets (24.8297°S 143.0606°E? / -24.8297; 143.0606? (Barcoo Shire Museum)). The museum is in the former administration centre of the Barcoo Shire Council, relocated to its present location.Roughly 30 km to the south east of the town is Welford National Park.