Editing Mount Isa (section)

== Tourism ==
[[File:Mount Isa, Queensland - Underground hospital.jpg|thumb|Underground hospital]]
Attractions include the Hard Times Mine at "Outback at Isa" and The Mount Isa Rodeo and Mardi Gras (held on the same weekend) has given Mount Isa the title of "Rodeo Capital of Australia". The occasion may well triple the city's population in these few days.{{Citation needed|date=August 2009}} A memorial has been made especially for the Rodeo, down Rodeo Drive; the sidewalks have special memorials embedded in the cement.

The burial place of [[John Campbell Miles]], the founder of Mount Isa, is on the corner of Rodeo Drive and Miles Street. His ashes are buried underneath a large statue where each panel represents a significant part of Mount Isa. Miles' ashes used to be watched over by a large clock where the statue now stands.

The [[World War II]]-era Mount Isa Underground Hospital is an historical building that has been registered on the [[Register of the National Estate]] and the [[Queensland Heritage Register]].  It is an [[air-raid shelter]] which could function as a hospital.  It was created as a precautionary measure after Darwin was bombed in 1942.<ref name="dqh">{{cite book |title=Discover Queensland Heritage |last=Cook |first=Penny |year=2006 |publisher=Pictorial Press Australia |location=Corinda, Queensland |isbn=1876561424 |page=17 }}</ref>  Local miners excavated the site which remains today as the only underground health facility in Queensland which was built during World War II.<ref name="dqh" />