Cooper's Cottage, Lightning Ridge

Built in 1916, this cottage is fairly typical of the way miners constructed their dwellings, with whatever they could lay their hands on. The inside was just as ramshackle and innovative.

Lightning Ridge has Opalised Fossils, Too!

June 20th 2014
Our last day at the Ridge started with some shopping for plastic boxes to store food in the top cupboard and make it easier to access, and to stop the contents of the fridge top shelf jumping around when we go on bumpy roads. Having found what I was after we went to look for the Opalised Fossils we’d heard about. Instead, we came across Coopers Cottage, built in 1916 and now a very rusty s ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales

Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more

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