Broken Hill Tourist Information
by Klaus Mayer
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Mining is still one of the major industries in the outback town of Broken Hill in New South Wales but tourism, art and agriculture increase in significance while mining declines.
The town is one of the stops of the transcontinental Indian Pacific Railway line and although the town is nearly 1,200 kilometres west of Sydney it attracts many visitors from South Australia and Victoria.
Broken Hill offers visitors not only an outback experience, history, art and filmmaker locations but also the conveniences of a thriving town in the harsh hot climate of outback New South Wales.
Broken Hill with a population of nearly 19,000 is a significant mining town in the far west of New So...
Silver City Highway in Broken Hill with view over railway yards and the Line of Lode mullock hill.
The Technical College of Broken Hill is a significant historic Federation Style building with large a...
Broken Hill Police Station in Argent Street was built in 1890 from locally quarried sandstone. The bu...
The heritage listed facade of the Town Hall in Argent Street is one example of beautifully maintained...
The Broken Hill Post Office constructed 1890-1892 with turreted roof and verandah over the footpath i...
Broken Hill is one of the stops of the famous Australian Transcontinental Railway line the Indian Pac...
The Broken Earth Complex was opened in 2001 on the highest point of the Line of Lode mullock dumps to...
The old Delprat Mine Shaft sunk in 1900 is the original Broken Hill mine close to the line of lode. T...
The Miner's Memorial was erected on top of the 7.3km long Line of Lode. It is a Memorial to more than...
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.
