Lightning Ridge

Lightning Ridge is an interesting and unique opal mining town in the north-western corner of the Australian state of New South Wales. Australian Traveller magazine has judged that "The Ridge" is in the 53rd position in the listing of 100 of Australia’s Best Towns.

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  • go mining for opals, bloody hot and dry, nothing else but opals  Michael C.
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Lightning Ridge Travel Guide is based on Lightning Ridge by Cgoodwin, Ryan Holliday, Morph, Pjamescowie, anonymous, iGuide and others. Lightning Ridge Travel Guide is available under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. See background image credits.