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Below is a collection of Australian locations found on Google Maps
if you have any more then share them Australian Capital Territory Sydney Opera House Sydney Harbour Bridge Centrepoint Tower MLC Centre Sydney Ferry Terminal Darling Harbour IMAX Theatre Sydney Maritime Museum - moored Oberon-class submarine Darling Harbour Exhibition Centre Hyde Park War Memorial Hyde Park fountain Queen Victoria Building (QVB) Greater Sydney Sports Grounds Sydney Football Stadium / Cricket Ground Parramatta Football Stadium and Leagues Club Royal Randwick horse-racing venue Eastern Creek Raceway Oran Park Raceway Wakefield Park Raceway Rosehill Racecourse Parramatta Speedway Public Infrastructure Plane on Sydney Airport Runway Lucas Heights Nuclear Facility University of Sydney University of NSW Central Station, Sydney Strathfield Station, Sydney University of Technology, Sydney Sydney Olympic Park, Homebush University of New England, Armidale, NSW Hi-res image of UNE and all of Armidale if you scroll right Parks and Reserves Henley Park, Enfield, 2136 Shopping Centres Marrickville Metro Westfield Shoppingtown Parramatta Castle Towers Westfield Shoppingtown Hornsby Westfield Miranda Rest of New South Wales Motocross Track at Nowra Giant Teddy Bear? - Menai High School ANZAC Rifle Range, Malabar M4 Tollbooths Gladesville Bridge Royal National Park follow the road to the southeast through the park Stanwell Tops aka Bald Hill, generally regarded as the southern end of the Royal National Park. Popular with hang-gliders and hotdog-eating motorcyclists. The new coast road bridge replacing the coast road that kept falling into the sea Parramatta Prison Parkes Parkes Radio Telescope Sygma Wreck Jamberoo Recreation Park </ul> <li> Victoria [/b] Melbourne Sports Grounds Telstra Dome Calder Park Dragstrip Philip Island Raceway Flemington Turns 3, 4 and 5 of Albert Park Grand Prix Circuit Sports and Aquatic Centre to left Sandown Raceway Public Infrastructure Melbourne Museum and Old Exhibition Centre Melbourne Airport The West Gate Bridge Parks and Reserves Water Stores Cardinia Reservoir Cities Clematis Cockatoo Emerald Menzies Creek Belgrave Mt Burnett Officer Pakenham Selby A plane midflight over Melbourne Plane in flight, Point Cook Queen Victoria Market Must be a Sunday, carpark is full. Waverly Park Spirit of Tasmania docked at Port Melbourne Pentridge Prison A ship hammering out of Port Melbourne Typical Melbourne Weather Holden's Proving Ground at Lang Lang. Ford's Proving Ground in the You Yangs, outside Geelong. Spot the car! The former Nissan, now Linfox, proving grounds near Anglesea. Huntingdale Golf Course the middle course (of many) Learmonth Airfield Lakes Entrance From the top left going clockwise: World Trade Centre, Melbourne Aquarium, Crown Casino, Exhibition Centre (Jeff's Shed) Snowy River Tasmania Hobart Launceston (obscured by clouds) Western Arthurs Lake Pedder (South) and Lake Gordon (North) Western Australia Perth Sports Grounds Barbagello Raceway Belmont Park Race Course Ascot Race Course Subiaco Oval The WACA and Glouster Park Public Infrastructure Curtin University University of WA Perth Airport The (infamous) Perth Belltower Horseshoe Bridge Parks and Reserves Kings Park Other Locations in/around Perth Casurina Prison The Burswood Hotel and Dome Mundaring Weir Garden Island Naval Base (There is even a submarine docked there!) SAS Barracks Rottnest Island "Rottnest" Hedge, Rottnest Island (Upside down in middle of screen) Canal City (Mandurah) Giant Froot Loops?! (these are apartment blocks) North West Cape Shark Bay Ningaloo Reef Ningaloo Reef is on the Western side of the peninsula. North West Cape military zone Tower Zero Harold E. Holt Naval Communication Station (tower zero is in the middle, surrounded by twelve smaller towers.) More spooky goings-on. What are the round 'pads' for? RAAF Base Learmonth The Pilbara Mining Opertaions Town of Marble Bar Jasper Deposit is 8KM South, Comet Mine is 10Km South. Cargill Salt pans Located 1km South of the Port Headland rail yards. Dampier Archepilago Overview of the Archepilago Town of Karratha (North West Gas Shelf). Karratha is an Aboriginal word meaning "good country". Burrup Peninsula NWGS Processing and Export facility, also contains the world's largest collection of petroglyphs (rock carvings), some dating as far back as the last ice age. Dampier salt pans BHP Iron Ore Port Headland rail yards Yarrie mine To the East of Port Headland (Shay Gap). Rail line branches in three directions: North (to Port Headland), South (Yandi Operation), and South-East (Newman), as well as a road to the West. Yandi (right) and Mining Area C (left) Off the South branch. Newman Joint Venture Newman. Appears to be used up. Mt Whaleback Operation Newman township and Great Northern highway directly East. Jimblebar/Orebody 29 Return loop between Jimblebar Junction and Jimblebar/Orebody 29. Sand Hill Siding Located Ssouth of the four-way branch, but North of the Newman Joint Venture proper. Jimblebar Junction. Robe River Iron Ore Associates Cape Lambert rail yards Pannawonica Iron Ore Mine [ Wickham] Pannawonica Mine Iron Ore Processing Facility. Crossroads This is where the Hamersley Iron and Robe River lines cross Hamersley Iron (Rio Tinto Iron Ore) Flash Map of Operations Loading operations. New high-res shots (June 2006). Info thanks to turkee. A very long bridge to East Intercourse Island (white). The thing on the right is a wharf for vessels to dock next to and load up with Iron Ore (red). Scroll slightly down and to the right, you can see a loaded Ore train unloading at the Dumper. The train is at least 1.6km long. Dampier Rail Yards Yandicoogina About 5km to the South-East of Yandi and Mining Area C (BHP Billiton), and 60km NW of Newman. Marandoo mine On the line to Yandicoogina] West Angelas Branches off the Dampier (North)-Paraburdoo/Tom Price (South) main line Branches go to Yandicoogina/Marandoo (East), Brockman No2 and Nammuldi (West), Paraburdoo/Tom Price (South) and Dampier (North) More direct branch to Nammuldi and Brockman No2 mines Nammuldi Brockman No2 mine Tom Price Iron Ore Mine Paraburdoo Iron Ore mine Paraburdoo is an Aboriginal word meaning "Meat Feathers" Eastern Range On-Steam 2004. [ Channar Joint Facility] is supposed to be 'close to' Paraburdoo, but I can't see it. The Kimberley Curtin Airforce Base Horizontal Waterfalls <b>Hi-Res</b> Check Google images for more. Cape Leveque <b>Hi-Res</b> Broome Derby -note: The water isn't blue Kununurra Argyle Diamond Mine The Hole (Not so) Secret Barra spot Rest of Western Australia Mines The Super Pit Whopping great open cut gold mine at Kalgoorlie. Check Google images for a better perspective. Copperhead Gold Mine (closed) Mt Keith Nickel Mine Meekatharra area Meekatharra Gold Mine an associated Mine. Big Bell Gold Mine (closed) another associated mine. a third associated mine. and yet more mines. South Hedland town with weird rose layout Busselton Jetty longest wooden jetty in the southern hemisphere (1.8km long) Leighton Beach Wolf Creek Crater A string of permanent Billabongs A lake and string of Billabongs Lancelin and Wedge Island You can also see the dunes. Not very good res. NASA Satellite Earth Station, Carnarvon Alcoa Pinjarra Laverton JORN facility Laverton transmitter. 180 Degree coverage. Laverton reciever. 180 degree coverage. <a name="South_Australia">[/url] South Australia Adelaide Airport AAMI Stadium Rundle Mall and University of Adelaide Adelaide Oval Glenelg Bay with Magic Mountain Adelaide Entertainment Center Hope Valley Reservoir Gepps Cross The Velodrome Adelaide 500 Street Circuit Mitsubishi Motors Tonsley Factory Flinders University Lake Eyre, with water Maslin Beach Australias first official nudist beach Mallala Raceway JESUS LIVES written in trees hard to read, visible from planes on approach to Adelaide airport (Updated to correct position!) Adelaide Uni north tce campus Murray River Mouth The Marree Man St. Clair Recreation centre <i>Home of Australia's Largest regular 400+ attendee Gaming lan - Valhalla</i> Parafield Airport (PARAFIELD written in trees) PC3 Orions at Edinburgh RAAF Base Acraman Impact Crater. Lake Gairdner is the big Salt Lake to the North-East, helping to outline the Acraman depression. <h3> South Australia - the drinker's tour </h3> Beer West End Brewery Coopers Brewery The Regency Park Coopers' brewery. Pale Ale, Sparkling Ale, Vintage Ale and their kindred come from this place The site of the old Leabrook Coopers Brewery Wine Barossa Valley The world-famous wine region Clare Valley More world-famous wines come from this region McLaren Vale Yet another popular South Australian wine region Coonawarra Famous for their Cabernet Sauvignon <a name="Northern_Territory">[/url] Northern Territory Ayers Rock / Uluru The Olgas Hidden Valley Raceway Pine Gap US satellite tracking base near Alice Springs. Francis Creek Mine (Territory Iron LTD). NT JORN Facility Harts Range Transmitter. 90 degree coverage. Mount Everard (?) Reciever. 90 degree coverage. Tindal Airport Offshore Dependencies <p>All maps are very low detail. Lots of 'noise' in some of the images. </p>f Heard Island and McDonald Islands Updated 5/11/06 With 20M res imagery (Eastern half of the island). Christmas Island Updated 5/11/06 with 50M Resolution. Cocos (Keeling) Islands Lord Howe Island Updated 5/11/06. 50M Res imagery. Norfolk Island Updated 5/11/06 with 50M Imagery. Macquarie Islands Ashmore and Cartier Islands Scott Reef Updated 5/11/06 With 50M Res (clearly two passes).
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