Broken Hill

Broken Hill (: 20440 inhabitants) is a city (" city") Australian of the west of the News-Wales of the South isolated in the Outback. It is located at more than 1100 kilometers of Sydney, with the limit of the southernmost Australia and besides, unlike the remainder of the state, it took the hour of central Australia.

The city owes its name with a hill rich in lead and copper, money ores which were exploited and which thus disappeared. It was near the current city.

History

The city was created in the Années 1850 and knew a growth fulgurating after the discovery of a gold seam. It is not the gold which ensured its later development but the exploitation of a money layer. The city was developed like an oasis in the middle of the aridity of the Outback.

Since the closing of the last mines, the city is reconverted into the Tourisme. It accommodates also many artists, attracted by the mineral beauty of the site.

In the current Eure, the aété municipal council suspended by the government of the state and an open survey. An administrator was named. ().

Structure

The last richness of Broken Hill is materialized by many worked constructions of style victorien.

Interest

The richness of the landscapes, the dramatic change of the colors in the course of the day and the easy access from the Australian big cities made of it a place of turning of choice for many Australian films evoking the vastnesses of the country. (Priscilla, queen of the desert, Mad max…)

Access

Route bituminized towards Adelaide and Sydney. Route bituminized towards the phantom city of Silverston

Railway (Indian Pacific) connecting Adelaide to Sydney.

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