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Ruby Gap Nature Park
This remote park rewards visitors with wild and beautiful scenery. The sandy bed of the Hale River sparkles with thousands of tiny garnets. Its an evocative place and is well worth the considerable effort required to reach it 鈭?by high-clearance 4WD. Camping is permitted anywhere a
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Quod
Built in 1864, this octagonal building with a central courtyard was once the Aboriginal prison block but is now part of the Rottnest Lodge hotel. During its time as a prison several men would share a 3m by 1.7m cell, with no sanitation (most of the deaths here were due to disease).
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Sydney Observatory
Built in the 1850s, Sydney鈥檚 copper-domed, Italianate observatory squats atop pretty Observatory Hill , overlooking the harbour. Inside is a collection of vintage apparatus, including Australia鈥檚 oldest working telescope (1874). Also on offer are audiovisual displays, including Abo
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Living Desert Reserve
One of the most memorable experiences of Broken Hill is viewing the sunset from the Sculpture Symposium on the highest hilltop 12km from town. The sculptures are the work of 12 international artists who carved the huge sandstone blocks on site. This spectacular outdoor gallery is p
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Tower Hill Reserve Visitors Centre
Tower Hill, 15km west of Warrnambool, is a vast caldera born in a volcanic eruption 30, 000 years ago. Aboriginal artefacts unearthed in the volcanic ash show that indigenous people lived in the area at the time. It鈥檚 jointly administered by the Worn Gundidj Aboriginal Cooperative,
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Perisher
Perisher Valley, Smiggin Holes, Mt Blue Cow and Guthega make up the massive resort of Perisher. The terrain is roughly 22% beginners, 60% intermediate and 18% advanced with most of the action in Perisher Valley. Guthega (1640m) and Mt Blue Cow (1640m) are mainly day resorts so they
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George Brown Botanic Gardens
Named after the gardens curator from 1971 to 1990, these 42-hectare gardens showcase plants from the Top End and around the world 鈭?monsoon vine forest, the mangroves and coastal plants habitat, boabs, and a magnificent collection of native and exotic palms and cycads.The gardens a
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Nourlangie Area
The sight of this looming outlier of the Arnhem Land escarpment makes it easy to understand its ancient importance to Aboriginal people. Its long red-sandstone bulk, striped in places with orange, white and black, slopes up from surrounding woodland to fall away at one end in stepp
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Sydney Sea Life Aquarium
As well as regular wall-mounted tanks and ground-level enclosures, this impressive complex has two large pools that you can walk through, safely enclosed in Perspex tunnels, as an intimidating array of sharks and rays pass overhead. Other highlights include clownfish (howdy Nemo),
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Nitmiluk (Katherine Gorge) National Park
Spectacular Katherine Gorge forms the backbone of the 2920-sq-km Nitmiluk (Katherine Gorge) National Park, about 30km from Katherine. A series of 13 deep sandstone gorges have been carved out by the Katherine River on its journey from Arnhem Land to the Timor Sea. It is a hauntingl
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Freycinet National Park
Sheathed in coastal heaths, orchids and wildflowers, Freycinet incorporates Freycinet Peninsula, people-free Schouten Island and the lesser-known Friendly Beaches north of Coles Bay. Black cockatoos, yellow wattlebirds, honeyeaters and Bennetts wallabies flap and bounce between the
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Leeuwin
Despite the vast areas of aridity it contains, Western Australia also boasts a startling variety of endemic wildflowers. The Leeuwin-Naturaliste National Park explodes with colour in the spring months. The leached, sandy soils of Western Australia produce a surprising variety of vi
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Great Ocean Road
This is one of the worlds most spectacular coastal drives, especially between Anglesea and Apollo Bay. Contrasting the fabulous surfer-style beaches is the lush green of the Otway Ranges, the dramatic limestone cliffs of Port Campbell and the pretty and fashionable town of Lorne. T
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Jenolan Caves
The underground limestone Jenolan Caves is one of the most extensive, accessible and complex systems in the world 鈥?a vast network that鈥檚 still being explored today. Named Binoomea (Dark Places) by the Gundungurra tribe, the caves took shape 400 million years ago. White explorers f
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CaveWorks & Lake Cave
The main ticket office for Lake , Mammoth and Jewel Caves , CaveWorks also has excellent displays about caves, cave conservation and local fossil discoveries. Theres also an authentic model cave and a cave crawl experience. Behind the centre is Lake Cave, the prettiest of them all,
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The Domain
Administered by the Royal Botanic Gardens, the Domain is a large grassy tract east of Macquarie St, set aside by Governor Phillip in 1788 for public recreation. Phillip鈥檚 intent rings true: today鈥檚 city workers use the space to work up a sweat or eat their lunch. Large-scale public
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Discovery Bay
When the Cheynes Beach Whaling Station ceased operations in November 1978, few could have guessed that the formerly gore-covered decks would eventually be covered in tourists discovering the areas bleakly fascinating story. An attached museum screens films about sharks and whales,
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Sculpture Symposium
A striking range of work on a hilltop northwest of town was created in 1993 by 12 international sculptors. They were responding to the limitless landscape, using some 52 tonnes of Wilcannia sandstone, borrowing the local miners old tungsten carbide chisels to dent the tough rock, a
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Boodjamulla (Lawn Hill) National Park
In arid country some 100km west of Gregory Downs lies this prehistoric oasis of gorges, ancient rainforest, crystal-clear green waters, creeks and tropical vegetation that indigenous Australians have enjoyed for perhaps 30,000 years. Remains of their paintings and camp sites are ev
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Old Melbourne Gaol
Built in 1841, this forbidding bluestone prison was in operation until 1929. Its now one of Melbournes most popular museums, where you can tour the tiny, bleak cells. Around 135 people were hanged here, including Ned Kelly, Australias most infamous bushranger, in 1880; one of his d
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