Friday, November 26, 2010

Broken Hill

Broken Hill is also a very small and quaint town. It is located 197 kilometers away from White Cliffs, and is a staggering 1,170 kilometers away from Sydney. There is not much to see in Broken Hill, except if you go out to Silvertown, a small and once rowdy mining town, you will see a big pub, which is said to be one of the most filmed and photographed in Australia. This pub has been used for a film location for 142 times by such movies as A Town Like Alice, Mad Max 2, and just about every Aussie beer commercial. Broken Hill used to be a bustling mining site. At its peak in 1893, it had 16 mines and employed about 8700 miners. today there is only one mine and 16 workers that use dynamite and bulldozers, compared to miners of the past who were equipped with picks and mine carts. However, Broken Hill now gets by somewhat pleasantly with a lining of hotels for tourists, and a couple of shops down main street. I rather liked this place due to the air of busyness and prosperity it had about it.

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