Places Tagged ‘hill’
29 JANUARY 2010 | MOUNTAINS | View Comments

Originally built as a temporary set for an Australian blockbuster movie “The Man from Snowy River” in 1981, Craig’s Hut is now a very popular tourist attraction. Located not far from the Mount Stirling summit, it perfectly complements astonishing views of Victorian Alps, creating even better landscapes.
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TAGS: alps, ancient, Australia, building, hill, home, house, hut, mopuntains, old, ranges, shelter, summit, valley, Victoria, vintage, wooden
27 JANUARY 2010 | MOUNTAINS | View Comments

Surrounded by the endless plains and fields, Grampians mountains range is one of the most popular tourist destinations in western Victoria that offers almost all possible outdoor activities in the same place: hiking and rock climbing, camping, exploring wilderness of mountain ranges and wetlands, swimming and canoeing, fishing or simply sightseeing.
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TAGS: aboriginal, art, Australia, cliff, climb, gariwerd, grampians, hill, lake, mounatin, park, peak, range, rock, Victoria, waterfall
1 JANUARY 2010 | COASTAL | View Comments

The Pinnacles is one of the most prominent features of the Ben Boyd National Park on NSW South Coast. It is located in the northern part of the park and can be found by turning onto Haycock Road from Pacific Highway about 8 kilometres north of Eden.
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TAGS: Australia, clay, cliff, coast, formation, hill, New South Wales, shape
3 MARCH 2009 | DESERTS AND OUTBACK, WATERFALLS | View Comments

Kolay Mirica Falls is one of the best places in the Gawler Ranges National Park where you can explore the organ pipes – unique volcanic rock formations.
Park is located in 40 kilometers north off Eyre Highway in South Australia, the road from Wudinna is the most convenient way to get there.
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TAGS: column, granite, hill, mountain, organ, organ pipe, park, pillar, rhyolite, rock, South Australia, volcano
1 MARCH 2009 | DESERTS AND OUTBACK, MOUNTAINS | View Comments

Due to the volcanic history of the Gawler Ranages some 1500 million years ago, the Gawler Ranges National Park exhibits one of the largest in the world exposures of the volcanic rhyolite also known as organic pipes.
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TAGS: column, formation, granite, hill, mountain, organ pipe, pillar, rhyolite, rock, South Australia, Stone, volcano
1 MARCH 2009 | DESERTS AND OUTBACK, MOUNTAINS | View Comments

Pildappa rock is a granite outcrop with the longest and highest rock wave formation in the Eyre Peninsula. This rock wave rivals a well known Wave Rock from the Western Australia.
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TAGS: granite, hill, inselberg, mountain, rock, South Australia, Stone, wave
25 FEBRUARY 2009 | MOUNTAINS, TOWNS AND COUNTRYSIDE | View Comments

Not far from Wudinna, a small town in the north-west of the Eyre Peninsula, above endless fields and farms, proudly rises a hill of international significance marked on the map as Ucontitchie Hill.
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TAGS: granite, hill, inselberg, rock, South Australia
19 JANUARY 2009 | DESERTS AND OUTBACK, TOWNS AND COUNTRYSIDE | View Comments

I’m sure that like many other ruins, this old farmhouse have it’s own special story to tell, but unfortunately I couldn’t find any information about this old farm. Read more…
TAGS: abandoned, architecture, Australia, deserted, farm, farmhouse, field, hill, history, house, ruins, South Australia