Lark Quarry Conservation Park

Lark Quarry Conservation Park is located near Winton in outback Queensland, Australia, where bicarbonate artesian bore water from the Great Artesian Basin—one of the world's largest confined underground water systems—provides a rare source of warm thermal mineral water in Australia's ancient arid interior. The bicarbonate mineral composition of these artesian spring waters carries properties valued for skin nourishment and the muscular relaxation associated with warm mineral immersion in one of Australia's most geologically ancient landscapes. Winton's position at the heart of the Australian outback—the town where Banjo Paterson reportedly wrote 'Waltzing Matilda' and where the country's oldest commercial airline was founded—gives this thermal site a cultural setting of remarkable significance in the story of Australia's inland pioneering heritage.