Broken Hill
a city in western New South Wales, in southeast Australia: mining center.
former name of Kabwe.
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How to use Broken Hill in a sentence
The goldfields of Australia are historic, and the silver, lead and zinc mines of Broken Hill deserve particular mention.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph TatlowIn addition Broken Hill is the centre of one of the largest pastoral districts in Australia.
This was a bit of a steep Broken Hill that overlooked upon the west a moorish valley, full of ink-black pools.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI | Robert Louis StevensonThey are very tame and live in holes amongst the rocks or make burrows in the gully banks and Broken Hill sides.
The Home of the Blizzard | Douglas MawsonThe Broken Hill contract completed, he found new problems as a mining expert and manager of men in China.
Heroes of To-Day | Mary R. Parkman
British Dictionary definitions for Broken Hill
a town in SE Australia, in W New South Wales: mining centre for lead, silver, and zinc. Pop: 19 834 (2001)
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