Where was The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert filmed?
1994 film directed by Stephan Elliott
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994) was filmed in Sydney, Alice Springs and Broken Hill — 3 recorded filming locations in Australia. Every one is a filming-location statement on Wikidata, not a guess.
See them on the map → Wikipedia Source data
Filming locations
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🏙 Towns & cities
Sydney
🇦🇺 Australia
capital city of New South Wales, Australia
“The Imperial Hotel in Erskineville, Sydney was the filming location for the opening and closing scenes.” Wikipedia
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🏙 Towns & cities
Broken Hill
🇦🇺 Australia
town in New South Wales, Australia
“Many scenes, including one where Bernadette encounters a butch, bigoted woman named Shirley, were filmed at the outback town of Broken Hill in New South Wales, largely in a hotel named Mario's Palace (now simply the Palace Hotel), which Al Clark believed was "drag queen heaven".” Wikipedia
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🏙 Towns & cities
Alice Springs
🇦🇺 Australia
city in the Northern Territory, Australia
Also per Wikipedia's Filming section
Wikipedia’s Filming section names 5 more places. A sentence in an article is weaker evidence than a Wikidata statement, so these are listed apart, never mixed into the statement list, and the claim links straight to where it came from.
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🏙 Towns & cities
Coober Pedy
🇦🇺 Australia
town in South Australia, Australia
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🏙 Towns & cities
Erskineville
🇦🇺 Australia
suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Palace Hotel, Broken Hill
🇦🇺 Australia
Heritage listed building in Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Uluru
🇦🇺 Australia
large sandstone isolated mount in Australia
“Initially, they tried to get permission to film upon Uluṟu, but this was rejected by organisations responsible for the monument, such as the Uluṟu Board of Management, as it would have been in violation of Indigenous Australian religious beliefs.” Wikipedia
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Kings Canyon
🇦🇺 Australia
part of the Watarrka National Park in Northern Territory, Australia
“Instead, the scene was filmed in Kings Canyon (Watarrka).” Wikipedia
Places whose own article says it was shot there
2 places whose own Wikipedia article names this film as something shot there, where Wikidata records nothing and this film’s own article does not say so either. The weakest evidence on this atlas: no pin on the map, and nothing in the downloads. Each sentence is quoted whole and linked to the article it came from, so it can be judged rather than taken on trust.
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Broken Hill Australia
“One of the most well known films to heavily feature Broken Hill is The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert where various scenes in town and surrounding outback were filmed.” Wikipedia
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Palace Hotel, Broken Hill Australia
“The 1994 Australian comedy-drama film, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, filmed many of its Broken Hill scenes in the Palace Hotel, which producer Al Clark described as "drag queen heaven".” Wikipedia
Recorded only at country level
Wikidata also records this film as shot in Australia, without saying where. Those statements are true but unmappable — a pin in the middle of a country would claim something nobody wrote — so they are listed here instead of guessed at.
Also shot in these places
- The Matrix 1999
- Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith 2005
- Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones 2002
- The Matrix Reloaded 2003
- The Matrix Revolutions 2003
- Mad Max: Fury Road 2015
- Moulin Rouge! 2001
- The Great Gatsby 2013
- Hacksaw Ridge 2016
- Mission: Impossible 2 2000
- The Wolverine 2013
- Superman Returns 2006
Set in the same places
More filmed in Australia
- The Matrix 1999
- Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith 2005
- Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones 2002
- Thor: Ragnarok 2017
- The Matrix Reloaded 2003
- The Matrix Revolutions 2003
Every filming location in Australia →
Frequently asked questions
How many filming locations does The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert have?
3 places recorded on Wikidata, and 5 places named in its Wikipedia article, labelled per Wikipedia, across Australia.
Which other productions were filmed at the same places?
The Matrix (1999), Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005), Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002), The Matrix Reloaded (2003) and 8 more, each listed on this page.
Where does this information come from?
Filming location statements on Wikidata, plus places named in the production's own Wikipedia article, which are labelled per Wikipedia. Nothing is scraped from listicles and nothing is generated.