Broken Hill Airport — Broken Hill, Australia

Broken Hill Airport serves the outback mining city of Broken Hill in far western New South Wales, Australia, at an elevation of 958 feet with two runways on the field. Broken Hill sits closer to Adelaide, South Australia than to Sydney, reflecting how isolated this part of New South Wales is within the Australian outback. The airport supports scheduled passenger flights alongside the kind of general aviation traffic common in remote mining regions, including charter and medical evacuation flights covering vast distances between small outback communities. Broken Hill's economy has long centered on silver, lead, and zinc mining, and the surrounding landscape stays dry, flat, and sparsely populated for hundreds of miles in every direction, leaving air links to fill gaps that sparse rail service cannot.