Broken Hill
Broken Hill is a city in the far west region of outback New South Wales, Australia. An inland mining city, it is near the border with South Australia on the crossing of the Barrier Highway (A32) and the Silver City Highway (B79), in the Barrier Range. Wikipedia
Population 17,706 (Wikidata)
Before you go
Visas and entry What your passport needs for Australia
Daylight 10 h 04 in Jun, dark by 17:06 · 14 h 13 in Dec
- January: 14 h 01 of daylight
- February: 13 h 14 of daylight
- March: 12 h 20 of daylight
- April: 11 h 20 of daylight
- May: 10 h 31 of daylight
- June: 10 h 04 of daylight
- July: 10 h 14 of daylight
- August: 10 h 55 of daylight
- September: 11 h 52 of daylight
- October: 12 h 50 of daylight
- November: 13 h 44 of daylight
- December: 14 h 13 of daylight
Getting there
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Best-documented sights
All of them in the guide- Sulphide Street Station Railway Museum Attraction · 320 m
- Palace Hotel Hotel · 400 m
- The Miners Arms, 1888 Viewpoint · 130 m
- Kintore Headframe Attraction · 210 m
- Winding Drum Ruins · 230 m
- Bells and Morcom Air Compressor Ruins · 230 m
- Albert Kersten Mining And Minerals Museum Museum · 240 m
- Sulphide Street Railway Station, 1905 Viewpoint · 320 m
Within a kilometre of the centre, ordered by how well documented each is — not by a "best" anyone decided. Each opens on the map in the guide. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited there.
Somewhere to run
Getting around
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