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Lightning Ridge is a small outback town in north-western New South Wales, Australia. Part of Walgett Shire, Lightning Ridge is situated near the southern border of Queensland, about 6 km (4 mi) east of the Castlereagh Highway. The Lightning Ridge area is a centre of the mining of black opal and other opal gemstones.
According to Norman Tindale's estimation, the Gamilaraay's tribal domains encompassed some 75,000 km 2 (29,000 sq mi), [6] from around Singleton in the Hunter Valley through to the Warrumbungle Mountains in the west and up through the present-day centres of Quirindi, Gunnedah, Tamworth, Narrabri, Wee Waa, Walgett, Moree, Collarenebri, Lightning Ridge and Mungindi in New South Wales, to ...
The National Museum of Australia (NMA), in the national capital Canberra, preserves and interprets Australia's social history, exploring the key issues, people and events that have shaped the nation. [2] It was formally established by the National Museum of Australia Act 1980. [3]
According to the 2016 census of Population, there were 2,145 people in Walgett. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 43.4% of the population. 81.0% of people were born in Australia and 84.3% of people spoke only English at home. The most common responses for religion were Anglican 31.4%, Catholic 26.7% and No Religion 19.9%. [1]
Ion Llewellyn Idriess OBE (20 September 1889 – 6 June 1979) was a prolific and influential Australian author. [1] He wrote more than 50 books over 43 years between 1927 and 1969 – an average of one book every 10 months, and twice published three books in one year (1932 and 1940).
A gallery at the American Museum of Natural History that showcases the Indigenous cultures of the Pacific Northwest, reopened Friday after a five-year, $19 million renovation.
Lightning Ridge bathing thermes supplied by artesian bore water Hot water bore hole into the Great Artesian Basin in Thargomindah Beel's Bore, Hariman Park near Cunnamulla. The Great Artesian Basin (GAB) [1] of Australia is the largest and deepest artesian basin in the world, extending over 1,700,000 square kilometres (660,000 sq mi). Measured ...
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