Download coordinates as: Marathon is a rural town and locality in the Flinders Shire, Queensland, Australia.

[4] The name Marathon derives from the pastoral run name first used by the lessees in 1863, at the suggestion of William Lempriere Frederick Sheaffe, the Commissioner of Crown Lands Kennedy District, using a Greek historical name.

[1][6] The Great Northern railway line from Townsville reached Marathon on 15 December 1903.

For students living in the west of the locality, Richmond State School in neighbouring Richmond to the west offers primary education and secondary education to Year 10.

For students living in other parts of the locality, the options are distance education and boarding school.