Things to find in Australia
8 legends, 3 gem & mineral ground, 2 haunted places, 1 cave on the free Club 49 adventure map
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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...
Open it on the map - Coober Pedy Legend
Most of the world’s gem-quality opal comes out of this one town in the South Australian desert, across more than 70 separate opal fields, and it started on 1 February 1915 when Willie Hutchison found the first stone. Miners...
Open it on the map · Read the story - 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...
Open it on the map - 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....
Open it on the map - Lake Hillier Legend
Bubblegum pink water, 600 metres by 250, on Middle Island off the Western Australian coast. Fill a bottle from it and the water in the bottle stays pink. Whatever is doing this is in the water, not a trick of the sky, and the...
Open it on the map · Read the story - 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;...
Open it on the map · Read the story - 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,...
Open it on the map - 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...
Open it on the map - The Bungle Bungle Range, Purnululu Legend
Sandstone towers shaped like beehives standing 250 metres out of the grass in the East Kimberley, banded orange and grey all the way up. The stripes are alive, or half of them are: the orange bands are layers where iron has...
Open it on the map · Read the story - 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...
Open it on the map · Read the story - 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...
Open it on the map - The Naracoorte Caves Legend
The largest known Pleistocene vertebrate fossil deposit in Australia, found in 1969, in caves that have been open at least 1.34 million years. The mechanism is grim and it is why the record is so good: these were pitfall traps....
Open it on the map · Read the story - The Somerton Man Legend
A man was found dead on the beach at Somerton Park, 11 km southwest of Adelaide, on 1 December 1948. Months later a scrap of paper was found in a hidden pocket of his trousers reading Tamám Shud, Persian for ended, torn from the...
Open it on the map · Read the story - Wave Rock Legend
A granite wall 15 metres high and 110 long, curved over at the top like a breaking wave about to fall on you, 3 km east of Hyden. It is a flared slope, and the shape was made underground: granite rotting in place through the...
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