Underground in the mine...

Outback: Broken Hill and around

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March 31st 2008
Our first destination, Broken Hill is truly the last sizeable town of New South Wales before the REAL 'desolation zone 'begins (heard of the Simpson desert?!). Broken Hill had a 'town-built -on a-desert- feel-to-it. On the outer residential streets you could easily find yourself on the road to nowhere again, but as easy as leaving this town, you can enter it suddenly driving from total nothingn ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Broken Hill

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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