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Jan 8, 2024 · Broken Hill's averages 27.7mm of rain in January, its wettest month, and the annual average is about 225mm. Long-term resident Jesse Edwards said the lightning storm was the largest she had seen ...
- A Life-Giving Rainfall in The Outback
- Animal Life Boom in Broken Hill
- Outback Landscape of Inspiration
- Destination Broken Hill: Middle of Nowhere
- Broken Hill’s Rich History
- Mining in Broken Hill
- Broken Hill’s Artistic Heart
- A Keystone of Australia’s Outback
- Explorling Broken Hill’s Nearby National Parks
- Broken Hill’s Hollywood Connections
Spurred on by record rainfalls, inland Australia’s plants and animals have been furiously filling in the details, rapidly growing and reproducing as many generations as possible before the harsh climate once again puts life on hold. “Droughts and flooding rains – it’s the classic boom and bust ecosystem,” observes Paul Seager, the far west’s operat...
In response to local rains and warm temperatures, pulse-like explosions of Australian plague locusts have been swarming, stimulating food chains across the region. The insects are eaten by reptiles and mammals, which, in turn, are food for birds of prey. These include the wedge-tailed eagle, which soars high above the plains on rising thermals. Pau...
While the explosion of life is spectacular, the feature that visual artists most love about this country is its much-vaunted light. It’s been of professional interest for three decades to longtime resident and retired photographer Doug Banks. The former marine engineer travelled the world as a merchant navy man but gave up the ocean 55 years ago fo...
Geographically, Broken Hill is pretty much as close to the middle of nowhere as a large Australian town can be: it lies 935 km north-west of Sydney, 725 km north-west of Melbourne, and 420 km north-east of Adelaide. Culturally and historically, however, this sprawling desert home of about 20,000 people is at the hub of the Australian heartland know...
The striking wildflower that grows prolifically out here after rain – Sturt’s desert pea – bears his name. Burke and Wills famously camped in 1860 about 100 km south-east of Broken Hill, on the banks of the ephemeral Lake Pamamaroo, now full after a dry decade. They stayed at the Maiden Hotel in the nearby Darling River outpost of Menindee – the fi...
Extreme isolation, a remarkable natural environment, severe climate and tough working conditions: Broken Hill’s population has been a uniquely shaped enclave defined by resilience, creativity and self-reliance. The result is a long list of significant people and achievements in the mining and pastoral industries, the union movement and the arts. Th...
The huge contrast between the openness, intense light and contrasting colours above ground and the dark, enclosed underworld of hard-rock mining may also underpin Broken Hill’s extraordinary art heritage. Remarkably for an Australian country town, Broken Hill has more private art galleries (30) than pubs (24). “The art has been as much about docume...
The Paakantji is one of western NSW’s main indigenous groups. Their country stretches along the Darling from Wentworth, south of Broken Hill, north-east to Bourke. Paakantji translates as “people of the river” and their lives have traditionally been intimately connected with the Darling’s fluctuating volume. Significant rainfall in the great river’...
From a natural-history perspective, both are currently at their best. The gorges and waterholes of Mutawintji’s fire-red Bynguano Ranges are flowing and full. So, too, is the Darling that winds through Kinchega, where lakes Cawndilla and Menindee are full for the first time in about a decade. NPWS Kinchega discovery tours run during non-summer scho...
Since the early 1980s, more than 300 film and media productions have been shot in and around Broken Hill and film is now promoted as a major growth industry for the town. Much media attention recently focused on plans to shoot Fury Road – the fourth movie in the Mad Max franchise – here. Mad Max 2 was famously shot in the region. Fury Road’s produc...
Nov 3, 2022 · Australia had the second-highest average amount of rainfall on record for October since 1975. The rain has filled up Broken Hill's water storages. A local Indigenous bush food maker says he is ...
Mar 16, 2022 · Share article. Parts of the iconic outback city of Broken Hill have received their highest rainfall totals since records began in 1884. Key points: Locals were shocked by the rainfall, which turned the CBD into a "river" and is likely to have damaged some buildings.
Mar 9, 2021 · Mutawintji National Park from Broken Hill. It may be a remote national park, but you don’t need a 4WD vehicle to get there. Access roads to the Mutawintji National Park are unsealed, but easily driven in a conventional vehicle unless it’s wet. And you don’t get too much rain in these parts.
Jan 13, 2024 · About 85 millimetres of rain fell in Broken Hill last Sunday. Rain helps clear particulate matter from the atmosphere, making night skies clearer. A meteorologist says clearer, post-rain conditions usually only last a week.
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Population: approximately 17,700. City area: 179 km². State: New South Wales. Elevation: 315 m. Post Code: 2880. Climate: Hot and dry desert climate, Broken Hill and the surrounding areas are well-known for major dust storms. Average rainfall is only 235 mm.
