2 places to discover
Tom Price is a mining town in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, located within the Shire of Ashburton at the edge of the Hamersley Ranges. Established in the 1960s to service nearby iron ore mines, it is the highest town in Western Australia at about 747 metres above sea level. The town serves as the northern gateway to Karijini National Park and is known for its red landscapes, Mount Nameless and Rio Tinto mine tours.
White Cliffs is a historic opal mining town in Central Darling Shire, far west New South Wales, about 93 kilometres north of Wilcannia. Established after opal was discovered in 1890, it was Australia's first commercial opal field. The town is notable for its underground dwellings, dug into hillsides to escape extreme heat, its white opal fields, pioneering solar power station, and remote outback landscape that attracts visitors interested in mining heritage and desert scenery.