Attractions

3 places to discover

Showing 1–3

Filters

Choose one or more options to refine the places shown.

A place or keyword

State or province

Arltunga Historical Reserve

Arltunga Historical Reserve is a preserved gold-mining ghost town in the East MacDonnell Ranges, about 110 kilometres east of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. Established after gold was discovered in 1887, it became Central Australia's first European settlement. The reserve protects ruins of the Government Battery, police station, hotel and miners' huts, plus mine shafts and a cemetery, illustrating early mining life in an arid landscape on Eastern Arrernte Country.

MacDonnell Region, Northern TerritoryHeritage Site

No image available

Kanyaka Ruins

Kanyaka Ruins is a State Heritage-listed pastoral station ruin located on Flinders Ranges Way at Kanyaka, about 40 km north of Quorn in South Australia. Established in 1852 as Kanyaka Station, it was once one of the largest pastoral holdings in the region. The extensive stone ruins include the homestead, woolshed, huts, and cemetery, illustrating 19th-century pastoral settlement abandoned after drought and hardship.

Flinders Ranges, South AustraliaHeritage Site

No image available

Riversleigh World Heritage Area

Riversleigh World Heritage Area is a globally significant fossil site in Boodjamulla (Lawn Hill) National Park in north-west Queensland, within Burke Shire. Inscribed in 1994 as part of the Australian Fossil Mammal Sites, it preserves extensive Oligocene and Miocene mammal fossils dating back 25 million years. The remote limestone landscape contains hundreds of fossil deposits, with the publicly accessible D Site offering interpretive displays illustrating Australia's evolutionary history.

Burke, QueenslandHeritage Site

Loading page…