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Ruby Gap Nature Park

Ruby Gap Nature Park is a remote nature park in the East MacDonnell Ranges, about 151 kilometres east of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. Centred on Glen Annie Gorge where the Hale River cuts through rugged quartzite ranges, the park is notable as the site of Central Australia's 1886 ruby rush, sparked by garnets mistaken for rubies. It offers stark desert scenery, seasonal waterholes, bush camping and high-clearance 4WD access along the sandy riverbed.

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Sapphire Gemfields

The Sapphire Gemfields is Australia's largest sapphire fossicking area, located west of Emerald in the Central Highlands, Queensland. Centred on the townships of Anakie, Sapphire, Rubyvale and Willows along the Anakie Sapphire Road, it covers about 900 square kilometres. Notable as one of the world's major sapphire deposits, it has attracted fossickers and miners since the 1870s and offers public fossicking reserves and commercial fossicking parks.

Central Highlands, QueenslandNatural Attraction

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