Things to find in Australia

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• Australian black opal & the outback gems Gem & mineral ground
  Australia produces the great majority of the world’s opal, and the outback is laced with fossicking country: Lightning Ridge for black opal, Coober Pedy for white, Andamooka, Quilpie and Yowah for the boulder opal, the Anakie and...
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• Coober Pedy opal Gem & mineral ground
  The opal capital of the world. Around 70 percent of the planet’s precious opal comes from this town in the South Australian desert, where it is so brutally hot that half the population lives underground in dugout homes, churches...
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• Jenolan Caves Cave
  Among the oldest open caves in the world, dated to over 340 million years, in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney. Eleven show caves of flowstone, underground rivers and a natural limestone arch you drive through to reach them....
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• Lasseter’s Reef Legend
  The great lost-gold legend of Australia. In 1929 Harold Lasseter claimed he had, years earlier, stumbled on a reef of gold miles long in the trackless desert of central Australia, and led an expedition to refind it. It failed;...
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• Lightning Ridge black opal Gem & mineral ground
  The rarest and most valuable opal on Earth, the black opal, comes almost entirely from this one small town in New South Wales. It fires red and green against a dark body like nothing else in gemstones. The diggings run for miles,...
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• Port Arthur Haunted place
  The most complete convict site in Australia, and one of the most reputedly haunted places in the southern hemisphere. Between 1830 and 1877 this beautiful harbour in Tasmania held one of the harshest penal stations in the British...
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• The Bunyip Legend
  From Aboriginal tradition across southeastern Australia comes the bunyip, a creature of the billabongs, swamps and waterholes that bellows in the night and drags the unwary under. When European settlers arrived they took the...
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• The Min Min light Haunted place
  Out on the empty Channel Country of outback Queensland, travellers for over a century have reported the Min Min light, a glowing orb that appears on the dark horizon and follows a car or a rider for miles, keeping pace, never...
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