What is Chinchilla, Queensland?
'''Chinchilla''' is a small town of 3,100 people in [[Queensland, Australia]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.chinchilla.org.au/index-tess1.php?ItemNo=2019 |title=Chinchilla Gateway : Tourism and Economic Development: Population |work=chinchilla.org.au |access-date=24 January 2011 |archive-date=17 February 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110217055658/http://chinchilla.org.au/index-tess1.php?ItemNo=2019 |url-status=dead }}</ref> It is 294 [[km]]s west of the state capital [[Brisbane]].<ref name=smh>{{Cite web |url= http://www.smh.com.au/news/Queensland/Chinchilla/2005/02/17/1108500202248.html |title=Chinchilla - Queensland - Australia - Travel - smh.com.au |work=smh.com.au |access-date=24 January 2011 }}</ref> The Chinchilla area was first explored by [[Europe]]ns when [[Alan Cunningham]] made his journey from [[Sydney]] to explore the [[Darling Downs]] in 1827.<ref>{{Cite web |url= http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A010255b.htm |title=Cunningham, Allan (1791 - 1839) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of Biography Online |work=adbonline.anu.edu.au |access-date=24 January 2011 }}</ref> Farmers arrived to settle the area in 1848 and set up Chinchilla Station. This was part of the Wongongera Station which had been set up in 1846. It was probably named after the local [[Indigenous Australians|Aboriginal]] word ''jinchilla'' meaning [[cypress]] pine.<ref name=smh/> The railway from Brisbane reached Chinchilla in 1878. The area became well known for its' dairy farming which became the main industry. In the 1920s, the Chinchilla area, and more than 24 million [[hectare]]s of Australia had become overgrown with an imported cactus, called prickly pear.<ref name=smh/> In 1925 the Australian government imported a moth from [[Argentina]], cactoblastis, which ate the prickly pear. The Chinchilla Experimental Station was set up to breed these moths and release them. At one time the station was sending out 14 million moth eggs a day.<ref name=smh/> Built on the banks of Charley's Creek,