Did you know…

  1. Newcastle has produced more dancers than any other city for the Australian Ballet Company.
  2. Stockton Bight is the largest sand dune mass in the Southern Hemisphere.
  3. Lake Macquarie is over four times the size of Sydney Harbour: 24 km long with 174 km of foreshore.
  4. Barrington Tops covers more than 80,000 hectares of rainforests, mountains and rivers.
  5. Hunter Valley Wine Country’s Semillon is known as the ‘unique gift to the world’.
  6. Scone, in the Upper Hunter is the Horse Capital of Australia.
  7. Lake St Clair in Singleton has a dam wall of 67 metres high, which is as tall as the highest sail on the Sydney Opera House, and when full, the lake has a surface area of 1540 hectares, or more than 2000 football fields.
  8. Morpeth, just outside of Maitland has been known to have spirits of the past to still inhabit the town today.