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Castlereagh Highway commences at an intersection with Carnarvon Highway, south of St George, Queensland, and heads in a south-westerly direction via Dirranbandi to Hebel, where it crosses the state border with New South Wales just beyond and continues in a southerly direction, past Lightning Ridge to Walgett, where it crosses the Barwon and Namoi Rivers and meets the Gwydir and Kamilaroi Highways.
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.
Castlereagh Highway (B55 north, B55/B76 south) – Walgett, Lightning Ridge, Coonamble, Gilgandra: Western terminus of highway Route B76 continues south along Castlereagh Highway: Collarenebri: 60: 37: Herbert Street (north) – Collarenebri Wilson Street (east) – Mungindi, Collarenebri Airport: 4-way intersection: Barwon River: 61: 38: Rocky ...
The local competition consists of teams from Walgett, Cumborah, Lightning Ridge, Collarenebri and Goodooga. The Walgett and District Sporting Club provides facilities for tennis, golf and lawn bowls. The original Tennis Club was situated on the south side of the town in the mid- to late 1960s and 1970s prior to merging with the Bowling Club to ...
The previous Walgett Shire Council was split between factions representing Lightning Ridge and the rest of the Shire and apparently became unworkable as a result. In 2004, a public inquiry investigated the dispute, among other things, under the Local Government Act, 1993 (NSW). Other matters investigated included poor administration, failure to ...
It is near Brewarrina and Lightning Ridge, its closest neighbour. The town lies 20 kilometres (12 mi) south of the Queensland border, and the border town of Hebel. The shire council has also built the 'Great Artesian Baths' on the northside of town, heated water pool from the Great Artesian Basin.
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 ...
Elderslie High School is a government-funded co-educational comprehensive secondary day school, located in Narellan, a town in the Macarthur region, southwest of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.