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The airport serving the Central Highlands town of Emerald lies four miles south of this Queensland community with car rental in Emerald Airport. Between 2009 and 2010, over 124,000 passengers boarded one of this airport's approximately 30 weekly direct QantasLink flights to Brisbane. Around three of these flights leave the airport each weekend, while about five flights are handled during weekdays.
Emerald Airport facilities
In 2010, the airport terminal was refurbished and modernized to include a state-of-the-art flight information system. However, Avis, Budget, Thrifty and Hertz all continue to offer opportunities to compare car hire here. Baby change rooms and showers are situated in the disabled persons' toilet area. The Arrivals area features a brochure stand, public telephones and baggage claim.
Emerald Airport excursions
Emerald may lie over 186 miles from Queensland's coast with car hire in Emerald Airport, but visitors can still cool off at the much closer Fairbairn Dam, just south of the town centre. This huge artificial lake, one of Australia's largest, holds a greater amount of water than Sydney Harbour at its full capacity. The Gemfields region just west of Emerald boasts the Southern Hemisphere's biggest sapphire fields.
Best time to visit
Emerald's inland location means the community experiences drier summers and cooler winters than coastal Queensland. However, winters (July and August) remain milder and more pleasant than those experienced farther south of the equator. The inland or easterly trough is most active during the warm summer months between December and February, bringing sudden thunderstorms to this normally dry area.
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The Gregory and Capricorn highways connect in Emerald, but the Tropic of Capricorn itself meets the Gregory Highway not far to the town's north. Another unique Emerald landmark that motorists will encounter is the world's largest Van Gogh sunflower painting, displayed on a Morton Park easel near the Capricorn Highway, next to Emerald's visitor information centre.
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