Silver City Highway
by Klaus Mayer
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The Silver City Highway connects the outback mining town of Broken Hill with Wentworth on the Murray River. With only 1,171 kilometres to Sydney, 836 kilometres to Melbourne, and 516 kilometres to Adelaide this accessible part of Australia's outback with its stunning sunsets and endless flat plains is a must see for visitors who want to experience the interior of Australia.
The Royal Flying Doctor Service is providing health services over an area of 7,150,000 square kilomet...
The RFDS base in Broken Hill is a must-see stop for travellers and locals to experience the extensive...
The Menindee Broken Hill road passes through 100 kilometres of arid landscape where scattered shrubs ...
The old Delprat Mine Shaft sunk in 1900 is the original Broken Hill mine close to the line of lode. T...
The Broken Earth Complex was opened in 2001 on the highest point of the Line of Lode mullock dumps to...
Silver City Highway in Broken Hill with view over railway yards and the Line of Lode mullock hill.
In Broken Hill in New South Wales at the top of the Slag pile stands the Miners Memorial.Broken Hill ...
The Miner's Memorial was erected on top of the 7.3km long Line of Lode. It is a Memorial to more than...
Mining is still one of the major industries in the outback town of Broken Hill in New South Wales but...
The Technical College of Broken Hill is a significant historic Federation Style building with large a...
There are no kangaroos in Austria.
We're talking about Australia, the world's smallest continent. That being cleared up, let's dive right in!
Australia is a sovereign state under the Commonwealth of Nations, which is in turn overseen by Queen Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, Queen of Australia and Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth.
The continent was first sighted and charted by the Dutch in 1606. Captain James Cook of Britain came along in the next century to claim it for Britain and name it "New South Wales." Shortly thereafter it was declared to be a penal colony full of nothing but criminals and convicts, giving it the crap reputation you may have heard at your last cocktail party.
This rumor ignores 40,000 years of pre-European human history, especially the Aboriginal concept of Dreamtime, an interesting explanation of physical and spiritual reality.
The two biggest cities in Australia are Sydney and Melbourne. Sydney is more for business, Melbourne for arts. But that's painting in very broad strokes. Take a whirl around the panoramas to see for yourself!Text by Steve Smith.
