Australia
New South Wales
Walgett Shire

Lightning Ridge

Lightning Ridge is an opal-mining town in . The town still has an outback feel. Tourism is just as big an industry for the Ridge now as mining and artists and designers now call the town home, with galleries and jewellery shops along the main street.
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  • Type: Town with 1,400 residents
  • Description: town in New South Wales, Australia
  • Also known as: “Lightning Ridge, New South Wales” and “Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Australia”
  • Neighbors: and

Lightning Ridge

Latitude
-29.4285° or 29° 25′ 43″ south
Longitude
147.9779° or 147° 58′ 41″ east
Population
1,400
Elevation
149 metres (489 feet)
IATA airport code
LHG
United Nations Location Code
AU LHG
Open location code
5R29HXCH+H5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 113365384
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2160232
Wiki­data ID
Q1001654
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Swedish—“Lightning Ridge” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Lightning Ridge”
  • Basque: “Lightning Ridge (Hegoaldeko Gales Berria)”
  • Basque: “Lightning Ridge”
  • Catalan: “Lightning Ridge”
  • Cebuano: “Lightning Ridge”
  • Chinese: “閃電山脊”
  • Chinese: “閃電嶺”
  • Chinese: “闪电山脊”
  • Chinese: “闪电岭”
  • Danish: “Lightning Ridge”
  • Dutch: “Lightning Ridge”
  • French: “Lightning Ridge”
  • German: “Lightning Ridge”
  • Italian: “Lightning Ridge”
  • Japanese: “ライトニング・リッジ”
  • Japanese: “ライトニングライド”
  • Malagasy: “Lightning Ridge”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lightning Ridge”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lightning Ridge”
  • Persian: “لایتنینگ ریج، نیو ساوت ولز”
  • Polish: “Lightning Ridge”
  • Portuguese: “Lightining ridge”
  • Portuguese: “Lightning Ridge”
  • Russian: “Лайтнинг Ридж”
  • Swedish: “Lightning Ridge”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Lightning Ridge”. Photo: Dpulitzer, CC BY-SA 4.0.