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Abercrombie House

Abercrombie House is a large Victorian Scottish Baronial mansion located at 311 Ophir Road in Bathurst, New South Wales. Built between 1870 and 1878 for pastoralist William Stewart, the three-storey residence contains 52 rooms with turrets, gables and original period interiors. Listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register, it is notable for its scale, architecture and intact 19th-century furnishings, and operates as a privately owned historic house museum open for guided tours.

Bathurst, New South WalesHeritage Site

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Abercrombie Karst Conservation Reserve

Abercrombie Karst Conservation Reserve is a protected karst area in the Central Tablelands of New South Wales, about 40 kilometres south of Oberon near the Abercrombie River. Managed by NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, it is renowned for its limestone cave system featuring The Archway, the largest natural limestone arch in the Southern Hemisphere. The reserve offers guided cave tours, camping, bushwalking and historic gold-mining relics within a scenic forested valley.

Oberon, New South WalesNature Reserve

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Adelong Falls Gold Mill Ruins

Adelong Falls Gold Mill Ruins is a heritage-listed gold mining site on Adelong Creek, about 1 km north of Adelong in the Snowy Valleys, New South Wales. Set in a bushland gorge with a waterfall, it preserves ruins of the Reefer quartz crushing battery and other 19th-century gold processing structures from the Adelong Goldfield, one of New South Wales' most productive early goldfields.

Adelong, New South WalesHeritage Site

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Age of Fishes Museum

The Age of Fishes Museum is a paleontology museum on Gaskill Street in Canowindra, Cabonne Shire, New South Wales. It houses the internationally significant Canowindra fish fossils, a 360-million-year-old Devonian mass-death assemblage discovered in 1955 during roadworks. The museum displays thousands of exceptionally preserved fossil fish, including the large predatory Mandageria fairfaxi, and interprets Devonian evolution through exhibits, replicas and educational displays.

Canowindra, New South WalesMuseum

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Albert Kersten Mining and Minerals Museum

The Albert Kersten Mining and Minerals Museum, also known as the Geocentre, is a specialist museum in central Broken Hill, New South Wales. Located at 125 Bromide Street, it showcases the city's mining heritage through an extensive collection of mineral specimens, crystals and mining artefacts. Named after Broken Hill geologist Albert Kersten, it highlights the mineral diversity of the Broken Hill ore body and the Line of Lode.

Broken Hill, New South WalesMuseum

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Albury Botanic Gardens

Albury Botanic Gardens is a heritage-listed 4-hectare botanical garden in central Albury, New South Wales, on the Murray River border with Victoria. Established in 1877, it features Victorian-era layout, mature trees, floral displays, rainforest walk, children's garden and ornamental ponds. Notable for its historic design, diverse plant collections and free public access, it serves as a major recreational and horticultural attraction for the Albury-Wodonga region.

Albury, New South WalesGarden

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Angourie Blue and Green Pools

Angourie Blue and Green Pools are two flooded former quarries located within Yuraygir National Park near the village of Angourie in the Clarence Valley, New South Wales. Created by quarrying for breakwater stone in the early to mid-20th century, the pits filled with groundwater to form vivid blue and green freshwater lakes. Surrounded by rock walls and coastal heath, they are notable for their striking colours, clear water and popularity as natural swimming holes.

Clarence Valley, New South WalesLake

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Anzac Memorial

The Anzac Memorial is an Art Deco war memorial and museum located in Hyde Park South in central Sydney, New South Wales. Completed in 1934 and designed by architect C. Bruce Dellit with sculptures by Rayner Hoff, it commemorates the service and sacrifice of New South Wales soldiers in World War I and subsequent conflicts. It houses exhibitions, archives and ceremonial spaces including the Hall of Memory and Pool of Reflection.

Sydney, New South WalesMemorial

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Apsley Falls

Apsley Falls is a dramatic two-tier waterfall on the Apsley River in Oxley Wild Rivers National Park, about 20 kilometres east of Walcha in northern New South Wales. The falls plunge about 123 metres into the deep Apsley Gorge, offering lookouts and walking tracks. Notable for its gorge scenery, accessible viewpoints and surrounding eucalypt forest, it is a key visitor site on the Oxley Highway between Walcha and Wauchope within a World Heritage-listed wilderness area.

Walcha, New South WalesWaterfall

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Arakwal National Park

Arakwal National Park is a 199-hectare coastal reserve behind Tallow Beach in Byron Bay, New South Wales, within Byron Shire. Established in 2001, it protects rare wallum heathland and is notable as the first national park in New South Wales created under an Indigenous Land Use Agreement with the Arakwal people of the Bundjalung Nation. The park is known for its wildflowers, threatened wallum froglet, and scenic beachfront setting near Cape Byron.

Byron, New South WalesNational Park

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Artesian Bore Baths

The Artesian Bore Baths are public thermal pools in Lightning Ridge, Walgett Shire, New South Wales, fed by naturally heated artesian water from the Great Artesian Basin. Located on Pandora Street in the centre of town, the baths are known for their constant 41-42°C mineral-rich water. Established after the bore was drilled in 1921, they are a free, 24-hour community and visitor facility valued for relaxation and therapeutic soaking.

Walgett, New South WalesSpring

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Art Gallery of NSW

The Art Gallery of New South Wales is a major public art museum located in The Domain, central Sydney, adjacent to the Royal Botanic Garden. Established in 1871, it is one of Australia's leading art institutions. The gallery comprises a historic 19th-century building and the contemporary Sydney Modern expansion (Naala Badu). It holds extensive collections of Australian, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, European, Asian and contemporary art, and hosts the annual Archibald Prize.

Sydney, New South WalesArt Gallery

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Artspace

Artspace is a leading contemporary art centre located in The Gunnery, a historic naval building at 43-51 Cowper Wharf Roadway in Woolloomooloo, Sydney, New South Wales. Established in 1983, it presents changing exhibitions of Australian and international contemporary art, supports artists through studios and residencies, and hosts public programs including talks and performances. Housed on the Woolloomooloo waterfront near the city centre, it is known for free exhibitions and its role in Sydney's contemporary art scene.

Sydney, New South WalesArt Gallery

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Auburn Botanic Gardens

Auburn Botanic Gardens is a 9.2-hectare public botanical garden in Auburn, western Sydney, New South Wales, within the Cumberland local government area. Established in 1977 on a former clay quarry and landfill site along the Duck River, it is notable for its Japanese Garden, Sunken Rose Garden, fauna reserve, lakes and diverse plant collections. It hosts the annual Auburn Cherry Blossom Festival and serves as a major recreational and horticultural attraction.

Cumberland, New South WalesGarden

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Audley

Audley is a historic hamlet and visitor precinct located on the Hacking River within the Royal National Park in the Sutherland Shire, New South Wales. Established in the 1860s and incorporated into Australia's first national park in 1879, it serves as the main northern gateway to the park. It is notable for its heritage buildings including the Audley Dance Hall, Audley Weir, picnic grounds and boat hire facilities.

Sutherland, New South WalesHeritage Site

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Australiana Pioneer Village

Australiana Pioneer Village is an open-air heritage museum at Wilberforce in the Hawkesbury region of New South Wales, about 65 km northwest of Sydney. Established in the late 1960s, it preserves and displays a collection of 19th-century buildings relocated to the site, including Rose Cottage (c.1810). The village recreates colonial and pioneer life with historic cottages, a school, church, and farm machinery displays.

Hawkesbury, New South WalesMuseum

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Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan

The Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan is a 416-hectare botanic garden at Mount Annan in the Camden local government area southwest of Sydney, New South Wales. Operated by the Botanic Gardens of Sydney, it is Australia's largest botanic garden and focuses exclusively on Australian native plants. Opened in 1988 as a Bicentennial project, it features themed gardens, lakes, woodlands, walking and cycling trails, and the Australian PlantBank science facility.

Camden, New South WalesGarden

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Australian Fossil and Mineral Museum

The Australian Fossil and Mineral Museum in central Bathurst, New South Wales, houses the renowned Somerville Collection within the heritage-listed 1874 Bathurst Public School building. Opened in 2004, it displays one of Australia's most comprehensive fossil and mineral collections, including a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton, extensive minerals, and fossils illustrating 600 million years of natural history.

Bathurst, New South WalesMuseum

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Australian Museum

The Australian Museum is Australia's oldest museum, located at 1 William Street in central Sydney, New South Wales. Established in 1827, it is renowned for its extensive natural history and cultural collections, including First Nations and Pacific cultural artefacts, palaeontology, mineralogy, zoology and anthropology. Its heritage-listed buildings house permanent and temporary exhibitions opposite Hyde Park.

Sydney, New South WalesMuseum

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Australian National Maritime Museum

The Australian National Maritime Museum is a national cultural institution located on the waterfront at Darling Harbour in Sydney, New South Wales. Opened in 1991, it explores Australia's maritime history and connection to the sea through extensive permanent and temporary exhibitions. Notable for its fleet of historic vessels moored on the harbour, including naval ships and a replica of Cook's HMB Endeavour, it is one of Sydney's major waterfront museums.

Sydney, New South WalesMuseum

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Australian Reptile Park

The Australian Reptile Park is a hands-on wildlife park at Somersby on the Central Coast of New South Wales, about 70 km north of Sydney. Established in 1948, it is known for its extensive collection of reptiles, spiders and Australian native mammals, and for its venom-milking program supplying venom for antivenom production. The park combines zoo exhibits, live shows and conservation programs in a bushland setting.

Central Coast, New South WalesWildlife Sanctuary

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Australian Standing Stones

The Australian Standing Stones is a monumental stone arrangement on a hilltop in Centennial Parklands, Glen Innes, New South Wales. Erected in 1991-1992, the site features 38 granite monoliths arranged in a circle inspired by ancient Celtic stone circles. Created to honour Celtic peoples and their contribution to Australian culture, it serves as a national gathering place for Celtic descendants and hosts the annual Australian Celtic Festival overlooking the town and highlands.

Glen Innes, New South WalesMonument

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Australia Rock

Australia Rock is a natural coastal rock formation located on the headland at the entrance to Wagonga Inlet in Narooma, Eurobodalla Shire, New South Wales. The rock features a hole eroded by the sea that closely resembles the outline of the Australian continent. Formed through natural coastal erosion, it is an iconic landmark and photographed attraction. Viewed from a dedicated lookout near the Narooma Blue Pool, it offers scenic ocean and inlet views.

Eurobodalla, New South WalesNatural Attraction

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Avalon Beach

Avalon Beach is an ocean surf beach in the suburb of Avalon Beach, Northern Beaches, Sydney, New South Wales, about 37 kilometres north of Sydney CBD. Located between Bilgola Head and Bangalley Head on the Tasman Sea, it features a long stretch of golden sand, consistent surf breaks, a large ocean rockpool and a surf life saving club. It is notable for swimming, surfing, and its scenic headland setting on Sydney's northern coastline.

Northern Beaches, New South WalesBeach

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Avoca Beach

Avoca Beach is a patrolled ocean beach in the suburb of Avoca Beach on the Central Coast of New South Wales, about 90 kilometres north of Sydney. Framed by headlands and backed by Avoca Lake, it features golden sand, a rock platform and an ocean rock pool. Known for consistent surf, family-friendly swimming areas and a relaxed coastal village atmosphere, it is a popular destination for swimming, surfing and coastal walks.

Central Coast, New South WalesBeach

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Back O' Bourke Exhibition Centre

The Back O' Bourke Exhibition Centre is a major visitor and cultural centre located on Kidman Way in Bourke, far north-western New South Wales. It interprets the history, environment and stories of Bourke and the surrounding outback through interactive multimedia exhibits, historic buildings and landscape displays. Notable for its focus on Darling River heritage, pastoral industry, Aboriginal culture and outback exploration, it serves as the gateway for visitors to understand the region's identity as the edge of the outback.

Bourke, New South WalesMuseum

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Bald Hill Lookout

Bald Hill Lookout is a prominent coastal lookout at Stanwell Tops on the Illawarra escarpment in Wollongong, New South Wales. Perched above Lawrence Hargrave Drive, it offers panoramic views over Stanwell Park, the Sea Cliff Bridge and the Pacific coastline. Renowned as one of Australia's premier hang-gliding and paragliding launch sites, the reserve features a paved lookout platform, parkland and memorials, attracting sightseers, photographers and adventure sports enthusiasts year-round.

Wollongong, New South WalesViewpoint

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Bald Rock National Park

Bald Rock National Park is a protected area in northern New South Wales near the Queensland border, about 30 kilometres north of Tenterfield. Centred on Bald Rock, Australia's largest exposed granite monolith measuring about 750 metres long, 500 metres wide and 200 metres high, the 88.83 square kilometre park is known for dramatic granite landscapes, open eucalypt forest and panoramic views across the New England and Granite Belt regions. Established in 1971, it offers walking tracks, lookouts and camping.

Tenterfield, New South WalesNational Park

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Ballast Point Park

Ballast Point Park is a 2.6-hectare harbourside public park at the tip of Ballast Point in Birchgrove, Inner West Sydney, New South Wales. Opened in 2009 on the former Caltex oil terminal site, it reuses industrial remnants and recycled materials. The park offers panoramic views of Sydney Harbour, Cockatoo Island and the Harbour Bridge, with landscaped gardens, walking trails, public art and heritage interpretation reflecting its quarrying and industrial past.

Sydney, New South WalesPark

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Ballina Lighthouse

Ballina Lighthouse is a historic coastal lighthouse located on Lighthouse Parade at East Ballina in the Ballina Shire, New South Wales, overlooking Lighthouse Beach and the Pacific Ocean. Built in 1880 as the Richmond River Lighthouse to guide vessels into the Richmond River entrance, it is a small white concrete tower with lantern. Now automated and heritage-listed, it stands in a grassy reserve and remains a prominent landmark and photographic attraction on the Far North Coast.

Ballina, New South WalesLighthouse

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Ballina Naval and Maritime Museum

The Ballina Naval and Maritime Museum is a community-run museum on Regatta Avenue on the Richmond River at Ballina, New South Wales. It is notable for housing the original Las Balsas raft, the only surviving raft from the 1973 Ecuador to Australia expedition, along with extensive Royal Australian Navy and merchant maritime collections, ship models, uniforms, photographs and artefacts documenting Australia's naval and local maritime history.

Ballina, New South WalesMuseum

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Balls Head Reserve

Balls Head Reserve is a 10-hectare bushland reserve on the Balls Head peninsula at Waverton in the North Sydney local government area, New South Wales. Jutting into Sydney Harbour, it offers panoramic views of the harbour, Harbour Bridge and city skyline. Notable for its restored native bushland, Aboriginal rock engravings, historic coal loader precinct and network of walking tracks, it is a popular harbour-side park for walking, picnicking and sightseeing.

North Sydney, New South WalesPark

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Balmoral Beach

Balmoral Beach is a sheltered harbour beach on Sydney Harbour in the suburb of Mosman, New South Wales, about 8 kilometres northeast of Sydney CBD. Known for its calm waters, netted swimming enclosure, and views across Middle Harbour, it features a wide promenade, the heritage Bathers Pavilion, and Rocky Point Island connected by a bridge. Popular with families, swimmers and picnickers, it offers a relaxed urban beach experience within Sydney Harbour National Park surrounds.

Mosman, New South WalesBeach

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Barangaroo

Barangaroo is a 22-hectare waterfront precinct on the northwestern edge of Sydney's central business district along Sydney Harbour in New South Wales. Developed on a former container terminal, it comprises Barangaroo Reserve, Barangaroo South and Central Barangaroo. Notable for its recreated natural headland park, harbour foreshore walk, public art, dining precinct and cultural programming, it offers harbour views and connects the city to the harbour foreshore.

Sydney, New South WalesCultural Attraction

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Barangaroo Reserve

Barangaroo Reserve is a six-hectare harbourside park at the northern end of the Barangaroo precinct on Sydney Harbour in New South Wales. Opened in August 2015, it recreates the natural headland that existed prior to 1836 using 75,000 sandstone blocks and more than 75,000 native trees and shrubs. The reserve offers foreshore walks, harbour views and cultural interpretation celebrating Aboriginal heritage, forming a major public open space in central Sydney.

Sydney, New South WalesPark

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Bare Island Fort

Bare Island Fort is a late 19th-century coastal fortification located on Bare Island in Botany Bay at La Perouse, Randwick, New South Wales. Built between 1881 and 1889 to defend Sydney's southern approach, it was designed by Colonial Architect James Barnet. The fort is heritage-listed and managed within Kamay Botany Bay National Park, connected to the mainland by a timber footbridge and notable for its barracks, tunnels and gun emplacements.

Randwick, New South WalesFort

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Barrenjoey Lighthouse

Barrenjoey Lighthouse is a heritage-listed 1881 sandstone lighthouse on Barrenjoey Headland at Palm Beach, the northernmost point of Sydney in New South Wales. Located within Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, it stands above Pittwater and Broken Bay. Designed by Colonial Architect James Barnet, it is the third light on the headland and remains an active aid to navigation, known for panoramic coastal views and its historic keeper's cottages.

Northern Beaches, New South WalesLighthouse

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Barrington Tops National Park

Barrington Tops National Park is a large protected area on the Barrington Tops plateau in New South Wales, about 200 km north of Sydney, spanning Dungog, Upper Hunter and Mid-Coast local government areas. Part of the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia World Heritage Area, it protects ancient rainforests, subalpine woodlands, snow gum forests and extensive wilderness. Notable for its Antarctic beech forests, waterfalls, Williams and Barrington Rivers, and diverse flora and fauna, it offers extensive walking and camping opportunities.

Dungog, New South WalesNational Park

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Bass and Flinders Point

Bass and Flinders Point is a coastal headland reserve at the southern tip of the Cronulla peninsula in the Sutherland Shire, New South Wales, overlooking Port Hacking and Gunnamatta Bay. Named for explorers George Bass and Matthew Flinders who explored the area in 1796, the point features a memorial, landscaped parkland and lookout areas. It is notable for panoramic water views, whale watching opportunities and its position adjacent to Cronulla Beach and the entrance to Port Hacking.

Sutherland, New South WalesViewpoint

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Bateau Bay Beach

Bateau Bay Beach is a sandy ocean beach in the suburb of Bateau Bay on the New South Wales Central Coast, about 100 kilometres north of Sydney. Located between Toowoon Bay and Forresters Beach and adjoining Wyrrabalong National Park, it is known for its sheltered shoreline, patrolled swimming area, surrounding headlands and coastal walking tracks. The beach is popular for swimming, surfing and family picnics with nearby park facilities.

Central Coast, New South WalesBeach

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Bathurst Rail Museum

Bathurst Rail Museum is a heritage and social history museum located at 126 Havannah Street in Bathurst, New South Wales, adjacent to Bathurst Railway Station. Housed in the restored 1916 Railway Institute building, it opened in 2020 and explores the history of railways in Bathurst and the Central West. Notable for its large HO-scale model railway, interactive exhibits and collection documenting railway workers and community life.

Bathurst, New South WalesMuseum

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Bathurst Regional Art Gallery

Bathurst Regional Art Gallery is a public art gallery located at 70-78 Keppel Street in central Bathurst, New South Wales. Established in 1955, it is one of New South Wales' oldest regional galleries and is housed within the Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre. The gallery is notable for its significant collection of works by Hill End artists, its program of contemporary Australian art exhibitions, touring shows, and community-focused public programs, with free admission for visitors.

Bathurst, New South WalesArt Gallery

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Belgenny Farm

Belgenny Farm is a heritage-listed historic farm complex at Camden South in the Camden local government area of New South Wales, within the Camden Park Estate. Established in 1805 on a land grant to John Macarthur, it is regarded as one of Australia's oldest surviving farm complexes and the birthplace of the Australian wool industry. The site preserves colonial farm buildings, cottages and agricultural landscapes illustrating early European farming practices.

Camden, New South WalesHeritage Site

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Belmore Falls

Belmore Falls is a plunge waterfall on Barrengarry Creek in Morton National Park near Robertson in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales. Located on the Illawarra Escarpment within Wingecarribee Shire, it drops in two stages into Kangaroo Valley below. Notable for its lookouts, escarpment views and accessible walking tracks, it is one of the most visited waterfalls in the region.

Wingecarribee, New South WalesWaterfall

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Beowa National Park

Beowa National Park is a coastal national park on the far south coast of New South Wales in Bega Valley Shire, extending from Twofold Bay near Eden south to the Victorian border. Formerly Ben Boyd National Park, it was renamed Beowa in 2022. It is notable for the red and white cliffs of The Pinnacles, Green Cape Lighthouse, Boyd's Tower, secluded beaches, coastal heathlands and significant Aboriginal and maritime heritage.

Bega Valley, New South WalesNational Park

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Berowra Valley National Park

Berowra Valley National Park is a 3,885-hectare protected bushland reserve in northern Sydney, New South Wales, within the Hornsby Shire. Stretching along Berowra Creek between Hornsby and Berowra Waters, it protects eucalypt forest, sandstone gullies and diverse native wildlife. Notable for its extensive walking track network including sections of the Great North Walk, Aboriginal rock engravings, and picnic areas such as Crosslands Reserve.

Hornsby, New South WalesNational Park

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Berowra Waters

Berowra Waters is a tidal waterway and harbourside locality on Berowra Creek in Hornsby Shire, New South Wales, about 40 km north of Sydney. Set within Berowra Valley National Park, it is known for its scenic estuary, bushland surrounds, and the free Berowra Waters Ferry that links the eastern and western shores. The area is notable for boating, fishing, bushwalking and waterfront dining in a tranquil Hawkesbury River setting.

Hornsby, New South WalesNatural Attraction

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Berrima

Berrima is a historic village in the Wingecarribee Shire of New South Wales Southern Highlands, about 130 km southwest of Sydney. Established in the 1830s as a planned Georgian town, it retains many original sandstone buildings including the 1838 Courthouse and 1839 Gaol. Notable for its well-preserved colonial streetscape, heritage-listed buildings, boutique shops, cafes and riverside setting on the Wingecarribee River.

Wingecarribee, New South WalesHeritage Site

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Berrima Courthouse Museum

The Berrima Courthouse Museum is a heritage museum housed in the 1838 sandstone courthouse in Berrima, Southern Highlands, New South Wales. Designed by Colonial Architect Mortimer Lewis in Georgian style, it is one of the oldest surviving courthouses in Australia. The museum displays colonial courtroom settings, local history collections and Southern Highlands artefacts, illustrating early justice, convict history and village development within the well-preserved Berrima historic precinct.

Berrima, New South WalesMuseum

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Berry

Berry is a historic town in the Shoalhaven region of New South Wales, located about 140 kilometres south of Sydney on the Princes Highway. Established in the 1820s on land granted to Alexander Berry, it retains a well-preserved 19th-century streetscape with heritage-listed buildings. Notable for its boutique shops, cafes, monthly markets, and surrounding dairy farmland, it serves as a gateway to the South Coast and nearby beaches.

Shoalhaven, New South WalesHeritage Site

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Berry Island Reserve

Berry Island Reserve is a harbourside bushland reserve in Wollstonecraft within the North Sydney local government area, New South Wales. Once a true island in Sydney Harbour, it is now connected to the mainland by reclaimed land. The reserve is notable for its Aboriginal rock engravings, remnant Sydney Harbour bushland, the short Gadyan Track loop, and panoramic views across Balls Head Bay and Woodford Bay. It is managed by North Sydney Council as a public heritage and nature reserve.

North Sydney, New South WalesPark

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Bicentennial Park

Bicentennial Park is a 40-hectare parkland in Sydney Olympic Park within the City of Parramatta, New South Wales, on the Parramatta River and Homebush Bay. Opened in 1988 to mark Australia's Bicentenary, it features restored wetlands, mangroves, Lake Belvedere, open grasslands and woodlands. The park is notable for its environmental restoration, bird habitats, extensive walking and cycling trails, and picnic and play facilities within the Sydney Olympic Park precinct.

Parramatta, New South WalesPark

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Big Banana

The Big Banana is an iconic roadside attraction and fun park located on the Pacific Highway at Coffs Harbour on the New South Wales Mid North Coast. Opened in 1964 to promote the region's banana industry, it features a 13-metre walk-through banana sculpture, amusement rides and plantation tours. It is one of Australia's original 'Big Things' and a long-standing family tourist destination combining novelty architecture, entertainment and regional heritage.

Coffs Harbour, New South WalesCultural Attraction

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Big Golden Guitar

The Big Golden Guitar is a 12-metre-high fibreglass replica of the Golden Guitar trophy located on the New England Highway at Tamworth, New South Wales. Erected in 1988 in front of the Tamworth Visitor Information Centre, it symbolises Tamworth's identity as Australia's Country Music Capital. The monument is a major roadside attraction and photo stop for visitors travelling to the city.

Tamworth, New South WalesMonument

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Big Merino

The Big Merino is a 15.2-metre-tall concrete merino ram located on Hume Street in Goulburn, New South Wales, within the Goulburn Mulwaree local government area. Built in 1985 to celebrate the region's historic wool industry, it is one of Australia's most famous 'Big Things'. The hollow structure houses a gift shop and wool exhibition, with an observation area accessible via internal stairs, and stands as an iconic roadside photo stop on the Hume Highway corridor.

Goulburn, New South WalesMonument

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Big Prawn

The Big Prawn is a large roadside sculpture located in West Ballina, New South Wales, on the Bruxner Highway at the entrance to Ballina. Built in 1989, the 9-metre tall concrete and fibreglass prawn is one of Australia's well-known 'Big Things'. Originally built to advertise the former Ballina Prawn Palace, it now stands in the Bunnings Warehouse car park and is a popular photo stop symbolising Ballina's prawn fishing heritage.

Ballina, New South WalesMonument

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Bilgola Beach

Bilgola Beach is a small ocean beach on Sydney's Northern Beaches in New South Wales, located between Avalon and Newport at the base of Bilgola Head. Sheltered by the headland, it features a curved stretch of sand, an ocean rock pool and a surf break. Patrolled by Bilgola Surf Life Saving Club, it is known for family swimming, surfing and scenic coastal views and is managed by Northern Beaches Council.

Northern Beaches, New South WalesBeach

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Billabong Zoo Koala & Wildlife Park

Billabong Zoo Koala & Wildlife Park is a privately owned wildlife park in Thrumster, Port Macquarie-Hastings, New South Wales, on Billabong Drive near Port Macquarie. Established in 1986, it is known for its koala breeding program and collection of Australian and exotic animals. Set around a natural billabong with landscaped grounds, it offers interactive encounters, keeper presentations and conservation-focused exhibits.

Port Macquarie-Hastings, New South WalesWildlife Sanctuary

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Bishop's Lodge Historic House and Heritage Garden

Bishop's Lodge Historic House and Heritage Garden is a heritage-listed former Anglican bishop's residence in Hay South, Hay, New South Wales. Built in 1888-1889 for Bishop Sydney Linton, the first Bishop of Riverina, and designed by architect John Sulman, it features a distinctive corrugated iron and timber homestead surrounded by a recreated heritage rose garden. Managed as a house museum, it displays period furnishings and local history on the Murrumbidgee River plain.

Hay, New South WalesHeritage Site

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Blackbutt Reserve

Blackbutt Reserve is a 182-hectare urban nature reserve in New Lambton, City of Newcastle, New South Wales, managed by the City of Newcastle. It protects remnant blackbutt eucalypt forest and rainforest gullies. Notable for free wildlife exhibits featuring native Australian animals, 16 kilometres of walking trails, picnic areas, and the Richley Reserve recreation precinct, it serves as a major conservation, recreation and environmental education site within Newcastle.

Newcastle, New South WalesNature Reserve

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Blowering Dam

Blowering Dam is a large rock-fill dam on the Tumut River near Tumut in the Snowy Valleys region of New South Wales. Completed in 1968 as part of the Snowy Mountains Scheme, it impounds Blowering Reservoir for irrigation, hydroelectric power generation and flood mitigation. The reservoir is a popular inland recreation destination known for fishing, boating and camping amid forested hills.

Tumut, New South WalesDam

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Blue Mountains Botanic Garden Mount Tomah

The Blue Mountains Botanic Garden Mount Tomah is a 28-hectare cool-climate botanic garden located at Mount Tomah in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, at about 1,000 metres elevation within the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area. Established in 1972 and opened to the public in 1987, it is part of the Botanic Gardens of Sydney and showcases cool-climate plants from around the world, including conservation collections such as the Wollemi Pine, with formal gardens and sweeping escarpment views.

Blue Mountains, New South WalesGarden

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Blue Pool

Blue Pool is a natural ocean rock pool located at the southern end of Bermagui in the Bega Valley Shire on the New South Wales Sapphire Coast. Formed in a coastal rock shelf and fed by the Tasman Sea, it is renowned for its exceptionally clear, deep blue water. The pool is a popular swimming and snorkelling spot, accessed via stairs from a clifftop car park, and valued for its scenic coastal setting and relatively sheltered swimming conditions.

Bermagui, New South WalesNatural Attraction

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Bobbin Head

Bobbin Head is a historic recreation area at the junction of Cowan Creek and Cockle Creek within Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, in the Hornsby Shire of New South Wales, about 30 kilometres north of Sydney. Established as a public reserve in the 1890s, it features sheltered waterways, mangroves, picnic grounds, a marina and walking tracks. It is notable as the most developed visitor precinct in Australia's second-oldest national park, offering boating, bushwalking and heritage sites.

Hornsby, New South WalesNational Park

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Bogey Hole

Bogey Hole is a heritage-listed ocean pool carved into the rock platform at the base of the cliffs below King Edward Park in Newcastle, New South Wales. Constructed in 1819-1820 by convict labour for Commandant James Morisset, it is considered Australia's oldest surviving ocean bath. The rectangular pool is filled by ocean waves and is notable for its convict-era construction, coastal setting and State Heritage Register listing.

Newcastle, New South WalesHeritage Site

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Bombo Quarry

Bombo Quarry is a heritage-listed former basalt quarry on Bombo Headland near Kiama on the New South Wales South Coast. It is renowned for its spectacular columnar basalt formations of the Gerringong Volcanics. Operated from the 1880s, the quarry supplied blue metal for construction. Now part of the Bombo Headland Reserve, it is a protected geological site valued for its natural, historic and educational significance.

Kiama, New South WalesHeritage Site

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Bondi Beach

Bondi Beach is a famous 1 km crescent-shaped sandy beach in the suburb of Bondi Beach, within the Waverley local government area, about 7 km east of Sydney's central business district in New South Wales. Known internationally for its golden sand, consistent surf, and beach culture, it is patrolled by lifeguards and backed by Campbell Parade, parklands and the Bondi Pavilion. It is listed on the Australian National Heritage List.

Sydney, New South WalesBeach

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Bondi Icebergs Pool

Bondi Icebergs Pool is a historic ocean seawater pool at the southern end of Bondi Beach in Waverley, New South Wales. Operated by the Bondi Icebergs Club since 1929, it consists of a 50-metre lap pool and a smaller children's pool set into the rocky coastline. Filled by ocean waves, it is notable as an iconic Sydney landmark, winter swimming venue, and highly photographed coastal attraction.

Waverley, New South WalesBeach

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Bondi to Coogee Walk

The Bondi to Coogee Walk is a 6-kilometre coastal trail linking Bondi Beach to Coogee Beach in Sydney's eastern suburbs, New South Wales. Located within the Waverley and Randwick local government areas, it follows sandstone cliffs, beaches, bays, parks and ocean pools through Tamarama, Bronte, Clovelly and Gordons Bay. Notable for dramatic ocean views, Waverley Cemetery and seasonal public art, it is one of Sydney's most popular urban coastal walks.

Sydney, New South WalesPromenade

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Boonoo Boonoo National Park

Boonoo Boonoo National Park is a protected area in the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales, about 30 km north-east of Tenterfield. It is centred on the Boonoo Boonoo River gorge and the 210-metre Boonoo Boonoo Falls. The park protects granite country with woodlands, heath, rock formations and river pools, and is notable for its scenic lookouts, walking tracks and swimming and picnic area below the falls.

Tenterfield, New South WalesNational Park

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