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Lockhart River is a community located on the east coast of Cape York, around 800 kilometres north of Cairns.

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Lightning Ridge is a remote town in Yuwaalaraay country in northwest New South Wales, near the Queensland border and 770 kilometres northwest of Sydney.

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