Up there with Australia’s most important industrial centres, the South Australian city of Port Pirie is home to one of the world’s largest smelting facilities. Since the 1880s the silver-lead-zinc ore mined in Broken Hill, NSW has been transported across hundreds of kilometres of outback to be refined in Port Pirie and then exported. And …
At Batemans Bay on NSW‘s South Coast the shimmering waters of the Clyde River pour into the Pacific Ocean. If you’re into seafood, the river estuary is one of Australia’s best locations for shellfish, and you can try super-fresh oysters freshly plucked from the waters. Batemans Bay is also an ecotourism paradise, where you can …
On the north bank of the Murray River, just inside New South Wales, Moama is one half of a twin town crossing both the river and the state border. This puts you as close as can be to Echuca, which emerged as Australia’s largest inland port in the 19th century. Echuca’s heritage has been meticulously …
The largest multi-commodity seaport in the whole of Queensland was hardly more than a village as recently as the 1960s. Gladstone is now the world’s fourth-largest coal exporting terminal, but to talk only about industry would be to sell the town short. One of the top regional botanic gardens is right here, and national parks, …
The largest inland city in New South Wales rests amid farmland in the Riverina region. Wagga Wagga, which means “place of many crows” in the Aboriginal Wiradjuri dialect, is on the banks of the wide and slow-moving Murrumbidgee River. One river-loop on the edge of town has been turned into a beach, where you can …
The seaside town of Port Macquarie lies at the mouth of the Hastings River on the mid north New South Wales coast. Here, dreamy beaches are punctuated by rugged headlands and give way to a rare patch of coastal rainforest to be explored on a boardwalk. The coast in Port Macquarie is hugged by a …
As quirky names go, this town on Queensland‘s central east coast takes some beating. “Tannum Sands” comes from the 1930s, when a group of Sunday School children returned from a beachside picnic with sunburn: “we can really tan ‘um over there”. Since the 1950s the beach has the Gladstone Region’s favourite day out, and is …
The second -largest country music event in the world after Nashville happens at this mid-sized town in the North Western region of New South Wales. Known for its equine livestock and horse-related events, Tamworth makes a fitting venue for a ten-day country music extravaganza every January, with thousands of live performances, an awards ceremony and …
Rising Sun-Lebanon is a small town situated in Kent County, Delaware. It’s small in both land area and population. With only around 4,000 residents, visitors can enjoy a quiet, laid back atmosphere away from the crowds of the larger towns and cities that are only a short distance away. Rising Sun-Lebanon is part of the …
Bedded in the Goulburn Valley, Mooroopna is a rural town facing off across the river from its larger neighbour, Shepparton. In Mooroopna, 20th-century agricultural industries like grain processing have made way for upmarket residential neighbourhoods, enhanced by amenities like parks and golf courses. The valley, aided by one of Australia’s largest irrigation networks, is a …