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Top 4 sights in Ballina

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   Nightcap National Park

   A park of eight thousand hectares on the Nightcap Range in northern New South Wales, protecting subtropical rainforest on the rim of an ancient volcano. It was created in 1983 after a three-year blockade of the logging that began the Australian forest movement.

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   Richmond River

   A river rising in the McPherson Range and running 394 km through the Northern Rivers country to reach the sea at Ballina. It was named for the fifth Duke of Richmond, and cedar-getters worked its banks from the 1840s.

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   Arakwal National Park

   A small national park immediately south of Cape Byron, the easternmost point of mainland Australia. It was created in 2001 through the first agreement of its kind with the Arakwal people, who manage it jointly.

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   Mount Jerusalem National Park

   A national park in the hills behind Byron Bay holding the headwaters of three rivers and part of the outer rim of the Tweed shield volcano, which last erupted around twenty million years ago. Subtropical rainforest survives in its gullies.

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