Nimbin is a small village in northern NewSouthWales, approximately 30 km north of Lismore 43 km southeast of Kyogle, and 70km west of Byron Bay The area is culturally important to the Bundjalung Aboriginal Australians and has become a haven for Australias counter culture in recent decades.
Nimbin is serviced by a police station, hospital and medical centre, restaurants, cafes and a pub.
Nimbin Rocks, a series of jagged outcroppings and Blue Knob that are both landmarks for the village.
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NewSouthWales is bounded by the Pacific Ocean on the E., by Queensland on the N., by South Australia on the W. and by Victoria on the S. It lies between 28 and 38 S. lat., and 141 and 154 E. long.
South of Sydney the rivers are of less importance; the principal is the Shoalhaven, 260 m.
In the extreme south-east of NewSouthWales, at the head of the Genoa river, are sandstones with Archaeopleris howilti, which are an extension of the Lower Devonian beds of Victoria; while farther to the east, at Eden and Twofold Bay, are Upper Devonian sandstones.
Since the dawning of the Aquarius Festival in 1973, Nimbin has been the epicentre of the alternative Australian lifestyle and as a cauldron promoting peace, social justice and environmental awareness.
Not surprisingly, then, Nimbin shares sister city status with New York's Woodstock where the world's first musical love-in unfolded about the same time that Oz hippies were discovering NSW's Northern Rivers.
From the day the first communes were set up around the picturesque old dairy town in the late 60s, Nimbin has taken on a psychedelic character of its own.
