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In Queensland, fossickers must obtain a licence, but no licence is required in New South Wales. In South Australia, fossicking is defined as "the gathering of minerals as (a) a recreation; and (b) without any intention to sell the minerals or to utilise them for a commercial purpose", and these activities are considered as not being affected by ...
Fossickers Way transverses the western slopes of the Northern Tablelands and passes through some of the world’s richest gem areas. In these parts, sapphires, zircon, jasper, prase, rhodonite, crystals and even gold may be found. The highway passes through open wheat and grazing lands and deeply wooded slopes, through country towns rich in ...
Grabben Gullen is a small village in Upper Lachlan Shire, New South Wales, Australia. [2] [3] At the 2016 census, it had a population of 253. [4]It is located between Crookwell and Gunning, situated at an elevation of 898 metres above sea level; several snowfalls occur during the winter months.
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Bellata (postcode 2397) is a small village in north-central New South Wales, Australia, in Narrabri Shire.At the 2021 census, Bellata had a population of 266. [2] The place name Bellata could be derived from the local Aboriginal word meaning "kangaroo" or possibly "home of belar trees".
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Hauturu or Clark Island is accessible by wading at low tide and is popular in summer months for rock-pool fossickers and kayakers. Whenuakura, sometimes known as Donut Island, sits about a kilometre east of the southern part of Whangamatā beach (Otahu Beach). Tuatara roamed on Whenuakura until fairly recently. Whenuakura Island has a large ...
The name is an Aboriginal word for "a high place", and was originally the name for a nearby farm operated by pastoralist John Brown in the 1840s. [2] The land had previously been part of a 313,000-acre (1,270 km 2) grant to the Australian Agricultural Company in 1834 and had been used to graze 6,000 sheep.