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Australia's first Dark Sky Park, where a 90-metre volcanic spire called the Breadknife rises over a jagged skyline of ancient eroded volcano remnants.
Warrumbungle National Park, near Coonabarabran, is built from the eroded remnants of a volcano active around 13-17 million years ago. Its most famous feature, the Breadknife, is a wall of volcanic rock roughly 90 metres tall and just a few metres thick, best seen from the Breadknife and Grand High Tops walk — a 14.5km circuit through some of the park's most dramatic terrain.
The park is also Australia's first internationally recognised Dark Sky Park, with some of the darkest, clearest night skies in New South Wales — a legacy of both its remoteness and a long history of astronomical research at the nearby Siding Spring Observatory. The Warrumbungle Visitor Centre stocks star charts for visitors keen to make the most of it.
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