Featherdale Wildlife Park

From Featherdale Wildlife Park, a zoo located in Doonside, Sydney. The park contains various species native to Australia, and is known to be one of the world's largest collections of Australian fauna.

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Date: Feb 27

The Rocks

The Rocks is a neighbourhood of historic laneways in the shadow of Sydney Harbour Bridge. Locals and tourists mingle at the open-air Rocks Markets, purchasing street food and handmade fashions. The area has some of Sydney’s oldest pubs and many of the upscale restaurants have harbour views. It is a warren of atmospheric sandstone warehouses, quiet courtyards, and cobbled alleys on the western side of Circular Quay.

RR: Australia & New Zealand x world RR
Date: Dec 5

Stanwell Park Beach

Known for its hang gliding and paragliding pursuits, Stanwell Park is an idyllic beach town that offers breathtaking views of the NSW South Coast. It's nestled within an amphitheater-shaped valley, framed by sandstone cliffs, and is often photographed from Bald Hill. It is the northernmost point of the Illawarra coastal strip and lies south of Sydney's Royal National Park.

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Date: May 2

Coogee Beach

Coogee Beach is located on Sydney's famous Coastal Walkway which stretches from Bondi Beach to Maroubra Beach. Coogee Beach has grown from a destination for day trippers in the early 1800s to one of Sydney's most frequented beaches. Nearby is bustling Coogee Bay Road with an assortment of great restaurants, cafes and ice-cream shops. The surrounding coastline is mostly cliffs, decreasing in height down to the beach in the western part of the bay. The bay is sheltered from the roughest seas by Wedding Cake Island, a rocky reef about 800m off the southern headland.

RR: Australia & New Zealand x World RR
Date: August 20

The Rocks

The Rocks is a neighbourhood of historic laneways in the shadow of Sydney Harbour Bridge. Locals and tourists mingle at the open-air Rocks Markets, purchasing street food and handmade fashions. The area has some of Sydney’s oldest pubs and many of the upscale restaurants have harbour views. The Museum of Contemporary Art offers local and international exhibits. Buskers perform along the busy harbourfront promenade. It is located on the southern shore of Sydney Harbour.

RR: Australia & New Zealand x World RR
Date: July 7

Australian Inland Botanic Gardens

The Australian Inland Botanic Gardens showcases a range of Australian natives from both arid & higher rainfall areas as well as exotic plantings grounded in country of origin, including a rose garden featuring over 1,600 colour coordinated bushes. Salt-tolerant local flora and exotic plants separated into geographical zones are also part of the collections.

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Date: July 13

Wollongong Harbour

Wollongong Harbour Precinct is a heritage-listed shipping harbour in Wollongong, New South Wales. It is the only point on the eastern coast of Australia which has two lighthouses. Wollongong Harbour's Breakwater lighthouse has been inactive since 1974. It stands 12 metres high and has a tapered round wrought iron tower with lantern, painted white. Right next to Breakwater Lighthouse sits the larger Flagstaff Hill lighthouse. Which is currently active. The entire structure is painted white. It is located at Flagstaff Hill on Wollongong Harbour. The small sandy beach at Wollongong Harbour is known as Brighton Beach. Although the waters may seem calm most of the time, this is an unpatrolled beach and is not a suitable location for swimming.

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Date: June 15

Coomealla

Located 20 kilometres from Mildura and a short drive from Wentworth, Dareton and the surrounding Coomealla Irrigation District are best known for its superior dried fruit and wine grapes.

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Date: May 25

Sydney Opera House

Another card of Sydney Opera House, a great architectural work of the 20th century that brings together multiple strands of creativity and innovation in both architectural form and structural design. A great urban sculpture set in a remarkable waterscape, at the tip of a peninsula projecting into Sydney Harbour, the building has had an enduring influence on architecture.

Unesco: Sydney Opera House
RR: Australia & New Zealand x World RR
Date: March 31

Phantom Falls

Phantom Falls is a mysterious weather phenomenon that can occur in all seasons. However, it is more common in Autumn and Spring. In the Blue Mountains, it's mostly seen over Narrow Neck, Katoomba, and it is frequently seen over Kings Tableland, Wentworth Falls. For the Falls to appear, the weather conditions must be exact with high humidity. This natural event is caused by air in the Jamison Valley being warmed by the sun’s rays and rising to meet the colder air in the Megalong Valley. The resulting mist creates a ‘waterfall’ effect which falls slowly and dramatically over the cliff into the Jamison Valley.

Unesco: Greater Blue Mountains Area
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Date: Feb 10

Sydney Opera House & Harbour Bridge

Inaugurated in 1973, the Sydney Opera House is a great architectural work of the 20th century that brings together multiple strands of creativity and innovation in both architectural form and structural design. A great urban sculpture set in a remarkable waterscape, at the tip of a peninsula projecting into Sydney Harbour, the building has had an enduring influence on architecture. The Sydney Opera House comprises three groups of interlocking vaulted ‘shells’ which roof two main performance halls and a restaurant. These shell-structures are set upon a vast platform and are surrounded by terrace areas that function as pedestrian concourses. In 1957, when the project of the Sydney Opera House was awarded by an international jury to Danish architect Jørn Utzon, it marked a radically new approach to construction.

Unesco: Sydney Opera House
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Date: Oct 27

Broken Hill

Remnants of Broken Hill mining industry.
Broken Hill is Australia’s oldest mining town, with a colonial history dating back to the 1880s. Broken Hill and the surrounding area has many natural and man-made attractions on offer for the tourist. These include mining operations, a visitor's centre and lookout on top of the original Line of Lode mine, historic buildings, town history walking trails, many resident artists and galleries. The Albert Kersten Mining and Minerals Museum, located on Bromide Street and Crystal Lane, explores the mining history of the town through geology exhibits.

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Date: Oct 13

Mungo National Park

Mungo National Park, in outback NSW, is a remote and starkly beautiful World Heritage landscape where the world’s oldest ritual cremation site was discovered. Part of the Willandra Lake Region World Heritage Area, the park is comprised of a chain of ancient dried-up lakebeds and sand dunes. Besides its striking beauty, it's one of the world’s most significant national parks with important archaeological treasures found there including evidence of human occupation dating back 60,000 years, fossilised giant marsupials and the largest collection of fossilised human footprints. The estimated 40,000-year-old cremated remains of Mungo Lady were uncovered in 1968, making it the oldest site of ritual cremation in the world. In 1974 a skeleton, also estimated at around 40,000 years old, was discovered and called Mungo Man.

Unesco: Willandra Lakes Region
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Date: Oct 21

Willandra Lakes

The Willandra Lakes Region is a World Heritage Site in the Far West region of New South Wales. The fossil remains of a series of lakes and sand formations that date from the Pleistocene can be found in this region, together with archaeological evidence of human occupation dating from 45–60,000 years ago. It is a unique landmark in the study of human evolution on the Australian continent. Several well-preserved fossils of giant marsupials have also been found here.

Unesco: Willandra Lakes Region
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Date: Oct 22

Lake Hume

Lake Hume is an impressive body of water held by an awe-inspiring dam wall and is an easy 15-minute drive from Albury Wodonga. It is estimated to hold approximately six times the volume of water in Sydney Harbour. The lake is stocked with fish. Most of these are introduced species – carp, redfin and trout though native species such as Golden Perch and Murray Cod can also be found. The fishing varies from year to year. It is also popular for water skiing, and several holiday resorts catering for fishing and skiers are dotted around the upper reaches of the lake.

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Date: Sept 19

Perry Sandhills

Situated just outside of Wentworth is this unique land formation of continuously shifting red sand dunes. 

The Perry Sandhills sit on the edge of the flood plain that includes Thegoa Lagoon. They are ancient and include Aboriginal cultural heritage areas.  According to geologists, the Perry Sandhills originated after an ice age and are formed by wind erosion over thousands of years. The dunes are located six kilometres outside of Wentworth and are a unique land formation of 400 acres of continuously shifting sand dunes.

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Date: August 26

Abbotsford Bridge

Abbotsford Bridge is a steel Allan truss-type road bridge that carries the Silver City Highway across the Murray River, between Curlwaa in New South Wales, and Yelta in Victoria. It is the only remaining steel truss bridge with a lift span that crosses the Murray.

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Date: April 28

Griffith

Griffith is the regional service centre for the vast Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area, one of the most productive agricultural regions in Australia. Thanks to irrigation, Griffith is rich in agriculture and the city is also known as Australia's Wine and Food Country. Griffith has many tourist attractions. These include Pioneer Park, a 510-seat Regional Theatre, the Italian museum, the Griffith Regional Art Gallery, craft and antique shops, and its many high standard restaurants. Many of the Griffith wineries also have wine tasting at the cellar door. Ecotourism is also available in Griffith. Scenic Hill has various walking trails, lookouts and is home to the famous Hermit's Cave. Campbells and Nericon Swamps, part of the Griffith Wetlands Important Bird Area, are important sites for migratory birds.

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Date: May 9

Sydney Opera House

Spectacular illuminations on the Opera House during the Vivid Sydney Festival.

Vivid Sydney is an annual festival of light, music and ideas. It includes outdoor immersive light installations and projections, performances by local and international musicians, and an ideas exchange forum featuring public talks and debates with leading creative thinkers.

Unesco: Sydney Opera House
RR: Australia & New Zealand x World RR
Date: April 14

Sydney Harbour Bridge

The Sydney Harbour Bridge is one of the world’s most recognisable landmarks. Not only is it the largest steel arch bridge on the planet, but it also spans one of the globe’s finest natural harbours. Affectionately named the Coathanger by locals, it’s an intrinsic part of the city. You can walk or cycle across it and even climb to its peak for incredible views. The iconic bridge took eight years to build and opened in 1932. It’s made of 53,000 tonnes of steel and six million hand-driven rivets. The arch spans 503 metres.

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Date: April 17