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Giant dish located in a sheep paddock was primary receiver of Apollo 11 TV transmissions
When Apollo 11 landed on the moon in 1969, over 600 million people tuned in to watch the broadcast. The television signals were sent from an antenna on top of the Lunar Module and were received on... »
Strange Science, Instruments of Science | Edited by Trevor and Nicholas Jackson
Largest Buddha carved from gemstone-quality jade in the world, on a world tour through 2011
Commissioned by an Australian couple and finished in December 2008, the Jade Buddha for Universal Peace has embarked on a worldwide tour from 2010 to 2011 after which it will be brought to its... »
Curious Places of Worship | Edited by canuck and Nicholas Jackson
Extraordinary geology resembles man made pavement
The isthmus connecting the Tasman Peninsula to Tasmania is covered in a pattern of regular rectangular saltwater pools. Although these depressions look distinctly man made, they are in fact the... »
Watery Wonders, Geological Oddities, Wonders of Salt | Edited by Annetta
Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!
Tens of thousands of flying foxes (a cat-size version of the fruit bat) have set up camp in the central Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens. By day, they roost in the trees, waking at dusk to seek out... »
Extraordinary Flora, Fascinating Fauna | Edited by A Facebook user and Annetta
An opal mining town in the middle of Australia where people live, worship, and shop underground
Coober Pedy is a mining town in South Australia, which calls itself the "Opal mining capital of the world". The town's name comes from the Aboriginal term for "boy's waterhole," but the joke is... »
Odd Accommodations, Eccentric Homes, Subterranean Sites | Edited by Nathan_Risinger
Nine limestone rock stacks on Australia's "Shipwreck Coast"
Recently a young couple visiting the Twelve Apostles -- confusingly, there are only nine rock formations -- walked out onto a section of rock known as the London Bridge. In a moment of life... »
Natural Wonders, Geological Oddities | Edited by canuck and Dylan
A microcosm of the whaling industry in a small Australian town
Six hours south of Sydney, the small seaside town of Eden features a whaling museum with exquisite artifacts from over a century of whaling in the community.
The museum opened in 1936 with a... »
Museums and Collections | Edited by M Rebekah Otto, Dylan and others
One man's artistic vision is a small town government's legal battle
Tony Phantastes had a vision. In the middle of a small Australian town he was going to create an artistic wonderland to document the history of Australian land-use practices and to commemorate his... »
Unusual Monuments, Incredible Ruins, Outsider Architecture | Edited by Dylan and gabeschwartz
