New South Wales' most remote city, Broken Hill is a world famous mining centre that lies at the junction of the Barrier and Silver City Highways and amongst the Barrier Ranges. While created solely for the mining of silver, lead and zinc in the 1890s, the city's mining operations have wound down since the start, however retains a strong interest for tourists because of the mining history, tours, extensive historic buildings and icons and because of the surprisingly scenic outback surroundings. Even though the city resides in NSW, it's interests are mainly with South Australia, with its produce transported for processing at Port Pirie and Adelaide, and operating on South Australian time.

Broken Hill is named after a nearby "broken" hill that was noted by Charles Sturt on an expedition into northern SA and NSW.

Population:

17 456 ¹

Postcode:

2880

Location:

1173 km west of Sydney, 514 km northeast of Adelaide

Main Roads:

Barrier Hwy (A32) and Silver City Hwy (B79)

Radio Stations:

FM:
2DRY FM (107.7 MHz), ABC Classic (103.7 MHz), ABC News Radio (104.5 MHz), ABC Radio National (102.9 MHz), Faith FM (88.0 MHz), Hill FM (96.5 MHz and 106.9 MHz), Hype FM (87.6 MHz), SBS Radio (98.1 MHz), Sky Sports Radio (100.5 MHz), Triple J (102.1 MHz) and Vision Christian Radio (94.9 MHz)

AM:
2BH (567 kHz), ABC Broken Hill (999 kHz), ABC North and West SA (639 kHz), ABC Riverland (1062 kHz) ABC Western Plains (657 kHz) and ABC Wimmera (594 kHz)

Broken Hill:

View over Broken Hill urban area, December 2003.

Image © Michael Greenslade

Sulphide Street:

Sulphide Street and the Palace Hotel, Broken Hill, December 2003. The hotel featured in the 1994 movie, "Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert"

Image © Michael Greenslade

Chloride Street:

Looking southeast along Chloride St in Broken Hill towards the post office, December 2003.

Image © Michael Greenslade

NEW Town Centre:

View of the Broken Hill town centre from the corner of Argent St and Chloride St, 2003.

Image © Jamie Scuglia

NEW Town Centre:

View of the Broken Hill town centre from the corner of Argent St and Chloride St, 2003.

Image © Jamie Scuglia

NEW Town Centre:

View of the Broken Hill town centre from the corner of Argent St and Sulphide St, 2003.

Image © Jamie Scuglia

NEW View from JP Keenan Lookout:

Looking east from JP Keenan Lookout over Broken Hill, 2003.

Image © Jamie Scuglia

NEW View from JP Keenan Lookout:

Looking southeast from JP Keenan Lookout towards the town centre, 2003.

Image © Jamie Scuglia

NEW View from JP Keenan Lookout:

Looking southeast from JP Keenan Lookout towards the town centre, 2003.

Image © Jamie Scuglia

NEW South Broken Hill:

Looking northwest at the corner of King St and Eyre St, South Broken Hill, 2003.

Image © Jamie Scuglia

Broken Hill:

Southerly view of Broken Hill from Block 10 Lookout, December 2003.

Image © Michael Greenslade

Broken Hill:

View of Broken Hill from Block 10 Lookout, December 2003.

Image © Michael Greenslade

Broken Hill:

View along Ryan St, Broken Hill from Block 10 Lookout, December 2003.

Image © Michael Greenslade

Argent Street:

Looking southwest along Argent St towards Broken Hill post office, December 2003.

Image © Michael Greenslade

Argent Street:

Looking northeast along Argent St at Broken Hill, December 2003.

Image © Michael Greenslade

Argent Street:

Looking northeast along Argent St at Broken Hill, December 2003.

Image © Michael Greenslade

Argent Street:

Looking northeast along Argent St at Broken Hill, December 2003.

Image © Michael Greenslade

Bonanza Street:

Looking northwest along Bonanza St in South Broken Hill, December 2003.

Image © Michael Greenslade

¹ Australian Government, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census Data, 2021, Broken Hill, Census All persons QuickStats, Urban Centres and Localities, UCL113003.