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 Albury - New South Wales - Australia - Travel - smh.com.au
In 1824 Hume and Hovell explored from Appin in New South Wales to the new settlement at Westernport Bay in Victoria.
The twin towns of Albury and Wodonga, although they are 7 km apart and on opposite sides of the Murray River, form a large urban area which is the border between New South Wales and Victoria.
The Albury Border Post newspaper was established in 1856 and the town became a municipality in 1859.
smh.com.au /news/New-South-Wales/Albury/2005/02/17/1108500192557.html   (3037 words)

  
 Journeys in Time: Related Topics: Aboriginal Tribes
People of the southeast region, living in the region from the Hawkesbury River in the north to Appin, the Cowpastures and George's River in the south, and west into the Blue Mountains as far as the territory of the Wiradjuri near Bathurst.
They were neighbours with the Kuring-gai and Darkinung peoples to the south, the Worimi people to the north, and the Wonnarua people to the west (on the middle reaches of the Hunter River).
They had close trade and ceremonial links with their neighbours the Darkinung, to the south, as well as close contact with the Wiradjuri to the west of the mountains.
www.lib.mq.edu.au /all/journeys/related/tribes.html   (570 words)

  
 Journeys in Time: Related Topics: Aboriginal Tribes
People of the southeast region, living in the region from the Hawkesbury River in the north to Appin, the Cowpastures and George's River in the south, and west into the Blue Mountains as far as the territory of the Wiradjuri near Bathurst.
They were neighbours with the Kuring-gai and Darkinung peoples to the south, the Worimi people to the north, and the Wonnarua people to the west (on the middle reaches of the Hunter River).
The boundaries for the Darkinung appear to have stretched from Wilberforce and Wiseman's Ferry on the Hawkesbury River to Jerry's Plains and Singleton on the Hunter.
www.lib.mq.edu.au /all/journeys/related/tribes.html   (570 words)

  
 Journeys in Time: Related Topics: Aboriginal Tribes
People of the southeast region, living in the region from the Hawkesbury River in the north to Appin, the Cowpastures and George's River in the south, and west into the Blue Mountains as far as the territory of the Wiradjuri near Bathurst.
They were neighbours with the Kuring-gai and Darkinung peoples to the south, the Worimi people to the north, and the Wonnarua people to the west (on the middle reaches of the Hunter River).
Wiradjuri country extended from the western foothills of the Blue Mountains and Lithgow through Bathurst, Orange, and Dubbo to Nyngan in the far west; in the south it stretched to Albury.
www.lib.mq.edu.au /all/journeys/related/tribes.html   (570 words)

  
 Rockdale City Council - Environment_Waterways
In 2003 the Geographical Names Board of New South Wales approved Council's application to rename three of the tidal creeks in the Georges River catchment.
The creeks were known as 'Sans Souci Drains Number 1, 2 and 3'.
Sans Souci Drain Number 2 was renamed 'Bado-berong Creek', meaning 'Small Fish', recognising the creek's importance as a fish nursery.
www.rockdale.nsw.gov.au /cms/cmswebcontent.nsf/Content/Environment_Waterways   (1186 words)

  
 New South Wales galleries
Art Gallery Road, cnr Camden and Appin Roads, Campbelltown 2560.
June 2 to 19 Gallery and Project Room: Banalities and I is a Verb by RUARK LEWIS.
June 17 to July 24 Luminous, contemporary art from the Australian desert and Dreamcatcher by NIKKI McCARTHY.
www.art-almanac.com.au /sydney.html   (1186 words)

  
 prac_listings.htm
Appin New South Wales * ** James Lewis 02-46311418
Albury New South Wales * ** Michael Quinlivan 02-60415814 Instructor
Ariah Park New South Wales * Trudy Sherwood 02-69741055
www.actm.com.au /prac_listings.htm   (1186 words)

  
 Campbelltown - New South Wales - www.smh.com.au/travel/
Campbelltown became the central thoroughfare for those headed on to the south-west grazing plains and south along the road that went through Appin to the Illawarra.
From the hill it is possible to see Campbelltown, the Sydney skyline to the north-east, and, to the south-west, the Menangle district and the Razorback Range.
The population increased from 9690 in 1954 to 16 374 in 1961.
www.smh.com.au /news/New-South-Wales/Campbelltown/2005/02/17/1108500193236.html   (4533 words)

  
 Walkabout - Albury
In 1824 Hume and Hovell explored from Appin in New South Wales to the new settlement at Westernport Bay in Victoria.
Hume Weir Trout Farm nearby has thousands of rainbow trout from fingerlings to adults which can be hand-fed or fished.
Hume's tree was destroyed in the 1840s by a teamsters' campfire but Hovell's still stands.
www.walkabout.com.au /locations/NSWAlbury.shtml   (4533 words)

  
 Southern Freeway
At the north, it starts at Waterfall, New South Wales, taking more or less a parallel route with Princes Highway until the sprawling Bulli Tops interchange (with Appin Rd (Metroad 9) and Princes Highway).
There it continues downhill, avoiding the steep Bulli Pass, as Mount Ousley Road (dual carriageway) and bypasses the city of Wollongong CBD.
Despite the current decline of steel, emergence of Wollongong as Sydneys commuter city kept F6 busy.
read-and-go.hopto.org /Australian-highways/Southern-Freeway.html   (206 words)

  
 BHP Billiton's Illawarra Coal Cuts Greenhouse Gas With New Power Plant
BHP Billiton Illawarra Coal, with the support of the Australian Greenhouse Office, today announced a major project to substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions from its West Cliff Colliery in the Illawarra region of New South Wales.
The A$13 million West Cliff Ventilation Air Methane Project (WestVAMP) is the final step in proving a technology, first piloted at Illawarra Coal’s Appin Colliery in 2001, capable of mitigating the bulk of the company’s remaining greenhouse gas emissions, while producing electricity as a product.
President Illawarra Coal Colin Bloomfield said he was proud that that the company is recognised as an industry leader in reducing GHG emissions from its underground coal mining activities.
illawarracoal.bhpbilliton.com /repository/newsCenter/pressReleases/2004June29.asp   (572 words)

  
 Reginald Spencer Browne
      Reginald Spencer Browne was born at Oaklands, Appin, New South Wales, on 13 July 1856, the son of William James Merrick Shawe Browne, pastoralist, and his wife Rachel, nee` Broad.
Observer in 1881, Reginald Spencer Browne moved to Brisbane as its editor and married Violet Edith Fanny Sutton of Maryborough on 13 October 1881.
Courier, but devoted much time still to soldiering as Lieut-colonel commanding the 13th Light Horse Regiment from 1903, and colonel of the 5th Light Horse Brigade from 1906; in 1911, he was transferred to the reserve.
www.queenslandhistory.com /browne1.htm   (572 words)

  
 Walkabout - Albury
In 1824 Hume and Hovell explored from Appin in New South Wales to the new settlement at Westernport Bay in Victoria.
Hume's tree was destroyed in the 1840s by a teamsters' campfire but Hovell's still stands.
Also in the gardens is the Hume Monument which was built in America and erected in place of the destroyed Hume Tree in the late 1850s.
walkabout.fairfax.com.au /theage/fairfax/locations/NSWAlbury.shtml   (2909 words)

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