Ballina Tourism, NSW Australia
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Ballina Fast Facts
- State: NSW
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- Famous for/as: Family-Oriented Holiday
- Population: 39,273(2011)
- Language: Spanish,British English
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- Pincode: 2478
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Ballina, Australia Overview
Ballina is popular with visitors looking for a quieter and more family-oriented holiday on the North Coast. The town has a range of accommodation options, especially for those looking for less expensive seaside holidays. It also provides easy access to some of the State's most scenic national parks.An abundance of food and a subtropical climate make this area very appealing. Be sure to Surf the legendary break at Lennox Head, which is known as the 'Surf Capital of the Far North Coast'.
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Ballina, Australia History
A lighthouse, Richmond River Light, was first constructed in Ballina in 1866. The temporary lighthouse was replaced with the current one, designed by James Barnet, in 1879, and first lit in 1880. It is still active.Ballina has a number of famous "landfalls" associated with it. In 1928, Charles Kingsford Smith's plane, the Southern Cross, crossed the coast over Ballina after its epic journey across the Pacific Ocean. Ballina had a festival associated with the event during the 1970s and 1980s, and a school in East Ballina bears the name "Southern Cross".In 1973, the Las Balsas rafts were towed into Ballina by fishing trawlers after their journey from Ecuador. They had planned to arrive in Mooloolaba in Queensland, but currents forced them off their course. Their journey was almost twice as long as the Kon-Tiki expeditions of 1947 and proved that people could have travelled across the Pacific in ancient times.A branch railway line connected Ballina with the Casino-Murwillumbah railway at Booyong. The line was opened on 24 August 1930 and closed on 12 January 1949.