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Town in New South Wales, Australia
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Bourke is a town in Northwestern New South Wales, about 140 km south of the Queensland border. It has a population of 1,699 (2021). This article also covers North Bourke, a smaller settlement a few kilometres to the north.
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Tourist info and Exhibition on the banks of the Darling.
A small art gallery established in 2006 with a lot of Outback-inspired pastel artworks, particularly of the Darling River.
One of the earliest oil-fuelled stationary engines that have ever been built. It was originally used for the Sydney Power House in the 1930s, but later generated electricity for Coffs Harbour's Allowrie Butter Factory in the 1940s. After 1949, the engine was moved to a property in Narromine, a town 40 km west of Dubbo and now has been brought to Bourke.
See some excellent preserve Indigenous petroglyphs in this national park. It's about 30 minutes south-southwest along the B87 Kidman Way which is sealed, but all of the park's roads are poorly maintained dirt roads.
It used to be the largest port along the Darling River when it was built in the 1850s, but what you see today is only a replica of the original 1850s-built wharf. Today, as the Darling dries up, this replica only remains a museum piece.
Airlink fly to Bourke from Dubbo. Flights to Dubbo are available from Sydney and some other regional locations.
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You can cycle from one end of the town to the other in less than 20 minutes.
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