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    Lightning Ridge is a small outback town in north-western New South Wales, Australia. Part of Walgett Shire, Lightning Ridge is situated near the southern...
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  • Lightning Ridge Airport (IATA: LHG, ICAO: YLRD) is an airport located 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) south southwest of Lightning Ridge, New South Wales...
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  • idea of making a movie about a bank robber. Hogan created a company, Lightning Ridge Ltd, which he then floated on the Australian Stock Exchange to help...
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  • Lightning Ridge is a 1940 book by Ion Idriess. It was an autobiographical account of part of his life, in particular his time in opal mining in Lightning...
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    differences in the dentary recovered from the Griman Creek Formation, Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Australia. This dentary is the holotype for the genus...
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  • Link recommenced regular passenger services with flights to Bourke, Lightning Ridge and Walgett using its Piper Chieftain fleet. From 2019, the fleet has...
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  • into Western Australia (WA). The second season which was filmed in Lightning Ridge (NSW), Opalton (QLD), Coober Pedy (SA) and Laverton (WA) premiered...
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  • South Wales, Australia. The last premiership was held in 1992 with Lightning Ridge beating Bourke.[1] Group 15 clubs currently play in the revamped Barwon...
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    The Shadow of Lightning Ridge is a 1920 Australian silent film starring renowned Australian sportsman Snowy Baker. It has been called the most "Western"-like...
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    four molars. The fossils were found in the Griman Creek Formation at Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Australia, as was Steropodon. Kollikodon lived in...
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    series. At the start of his career, Paul Hogan said he was born in Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, to appear more interesting. He was actually born...
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  • and the largest specimen ever found in its region. It was found at Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Australia by the Lunatic Hill Mining Syndicate. It...
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    (1937). Story of the Kimberleys. Lightning Ridge (1940). Based on Idriess's opal prospecting experience at Lightning Ridge. Headhunters of the Coral Sea...
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    matrix opal, crystal opal, and black opal. Another Australian town, Lightning Ridge in New South Wales, is the main source of black opal, opal containing...
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    lightning rod or lightning conductor (British English) is a metal rod mounted on a structure and intended to protect the structure from a lightning strike...
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    discovered was the Cenomanian (100–96.6 Ma) Steropodon galmani from Lightning Ridge, New South Wales. Biochemical and anatomical evidence suggests that...
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  • Williams wrote a thesis on the Yuwaaliyaay dialect spoken at Walgett and Lightning Ridge. The Gamilaraay, like many other tribes, taught young men a secret...
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    Walter Bradley and "Irish" Joe Hegarty, at the Bald Hill Workings, Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Australia. Tunneling down at around 30 feet (9.1 m)...
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    The Black Queen is a house made of 14,000 glass bottles located in Lightning Ridge in outback NSW, Australia, and a theatre show of the same name at the...
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    mountain ridges, result in thunderstorm activity. The phenomenon is characterized by almost continuous lightning, mostly within the clouds. The lightning produces...
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    operates coaches between Dubbo and Lightning Ridge, which stop at Coonamble Street, Gulargambone. The coach to Lightning Ridge stops daily at 15:45. The coach...
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    of Lightning Ridge. Cumborah is about 36 kilometres (22 mi) off the Castlereagh Highway and is served by the commercial centres of Lightning Ridge and...
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  • an additional confirmed sighting of Naden over the next month near Lightning Ridge. In March 2006, Naden avoided capture at an Aboriginal mission, near...
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    on the eastern bank of the Bokhara River. It is near Brewarrina and Lightning Ridge, its closest neighbour. The town lies 20 kilometres (12 mi) south of...
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    An opal miner on a smoko in Lightning Ridge, New South Wales...
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    Foster, an opal miner, discovered a vertebra from an ornithopod in Lightning Ridge. Foster originally interpreted the fossil as a hoof belonging to a...
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    of the Castlereagh Highway and approximately 45 kilometres north of Lightning Ridge. At the 2016 census, Angledool had a population of 58 people. Yuwaalaraay...
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    dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of the Griman Creek Formation near Lightning Ridge, in New South Wales, Australia. The type and only species is W. pobeni...
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  • Columbia. It had a Sydney underworld setting and action took place out at Lightning Ridge. This was unusual for Australian radio at the time as most locally...
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    to as a gateway to the far west centres of Walgett, Collarenebri, Lightning Ridge opal fields and beyond. The Aboriginal meaning of Wee Waa is "Fire...
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