South Broken Hill is a suburb of the western
New South Wales
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city of
Broken Hill
Broken Hill is an inland mining city in the far west of outback New South Wales, Australia. It is near the border with South Australia on the crossing of the Barrier Highway (A32) and the Silver City Highway (B79), in the Barrier Range. It ...
in
outback
The Outback is a remote, vast, sparsely populated area of Australia. The Outback is more remote than the bush. While often envisaged as being arid, the Outback regions extend from the northern to southern Australian coastlines and encompass a ...
Australia. The suburb is located in the
City of Broken Hill local government area, separated by the "Line of Lode" from the rest of the city. The
Silver City Highway
Silver City Highway is a highway that links Buronga, New South Wales to the Queensland border via Wentworth, Broken Hill, and Tibooburra, in the arid Far West region of New South Wales; a short branch also connects to Calder Highway on the ...
running to
Wentworth runs through the suburb.
The suburb was previously known as Alma, which gave its name to the
electoral district of Alma
Alma was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales from 1894 to 1904, named after Alma, a locality in southern Broken Hill, now known as South Broken Hill.
Members for Alma
Josiah Thomas eas ...
from 1894 to 1904.
Heritage listings
South Broken Hill has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:
* Piper Street:
Central Mine Manager's Residence
References
Suburbs of Broken Hill, New South Wales
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