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A retired geologist searching on Google Earth for a place to mine opals may have discovered something much bigger: a meteorite crater in outback NSW.
Mike Fry, of Maryborough in central Victoria, was using the Google site last month to survey terrain when he saw an unusual structure in the red dust.

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Position: Latitude: 30°47'6.44"S, Longitude: 143° 8'37.00"E

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White Cliffs is a small town in outback New South Wales in Australia, in Central Darling Shire. It has a population of around 200. White Cliffs is around 255 km northeast of Broken Hill, 93 km north of Wilcannia.

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A huge meteorite crater has been discovered ten kilometres from an old opal mining town in the far west of New South Wales. Its an extraordinary find for the opal fields have been mined since eighteen ninety. Miners, pastoralists, tourists, and whoever has flown to the nearby airfield, have missed the two kilometre meteorite.

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