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Belubula River
Belubula River, a perennial river that is part of the Lachlan catchment within the Murray–Darling basin, is located in the central west region of New South Wales, Australia. Location and features The river rises south of Vittoria, midway between Bathurst and Orange and generally flows south and west, joined by eight minor tributaries, flowing through Carcoar Lake where its flow is regulated, before reaching its mouth at the Lachlan River, east of Gooloogong; dropping over its course of . The name is derived from the Australian Aboriginal meaning for stony river or big lagoon. The original inhabitants of the land alongside the Belubula River are the Indigenous Australians of the Wiradjuri clan. Towns on the Belubula River, from its source towards its mouth, include Blayney, Carcoar, and Canowindra. In the early 21st century, the New South Wales New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a States and territories of Australia, state on the Eastern states of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carcoar, New South Wales
Carcoar is a small town in the Central West (New South Wales), Central West region of New South Wales, Australia, in Blayney Shire. In 2021, the town had a population of 271 people. It is situated just off the Mid-Western Highway 258 km west of Sydney and 52 km south-west of Bathurst, New South Wales, Bathurst and is 720 m above sea level. It is located in a small green valley, with the township and buildings on both banks of the Belubula River. It is the third oldest settlement west of the Blue Mountains. is a Gundungurra word meaning either 'frog' or 'kookaburra'. Nearby towns are Blayney, New South Wales, Blayney, Millthorpe, New South Wales, Millthorpe, Mandurama, New South Wales, Mandurama, Neville, New South Wales, Neville, Lyndhurst, New South Wales, Lyndhurst and Barry, New South Wales, Barry It was once one of the most important government centres in Western New South Wales. The town has been classified by the National Trust of Australia, National Trust due to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orange, New South Wales
Orange is a city in the Central Tablelands region of New South Wales, Australia. It is west of the state capital, Sydney [ on a great circle], at an altitude of . Orange had an urban population of 41,920 at the 2021 Australia Census, 2021 Census, making the city a significant regional centre. A significant nearby landmark is Mount Canobolas with a peak elevation of and commanding views of the district. Orange is situated within the traditional lands of the Wiradjuri tribe. Orange was the birthplace of poets Banjo Paterson and Kenneth Slessor, although Paterson lived in Orange for only a short time as an infant. Walter W. Stone, book publisher (Wentworth Books) and passionate supporter of Australian literature, was also born in Orange. The first Australian Touring Car Championship, known today as the Supercars Championship, was held at the Gnoo Blas Motor Racing Circuit in 1960 Australian Touring Car Championship, 1960. History The Orange region is the traditional land of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Junction Reefs Dam
Junction Reefs Dam is a heritage-listed former mining dam on the Belubula River at Lyndhurst, Blayney Shire, New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by Oscar Shulze and built by Schulze in 1896. It was the first multi-arch dam built in Australia. It is also known as Belubula Dam. The property is owned by Department of Planning and Infrastructure (State Government). It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999. History The Junction Reefs area on the Belubula River near Mandurama has been the site of intermittent gold production since 1870. Belubula Dam was built in 1896 in a deep narrow ravine at an altitude of about 61m above the crushing mill and was completed in nine months. It was built with day labour about 40 men strong under the personal supervision of the eminent civil engineer Oscar Schulze. This arched dam was the first of its type constructed in Australia and Schulze was one of the few Australian visionaries. He advocated improved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canowindra
Situated on the Belubula River, Canowindra (pronounced ) is a historic township and the largest population centre in Cabonne Shire, New South Wales, Cabonne Shire. The town is located between Orange, New South Wales, Orange and Cowra, New South Wales, Cowra in the central west of New South Wales, Australia. The curving main street, Gaskill Street, is partly an urban conservation area. Toponymy The name of the town is derived from an Aboriginal language (Wiradjuri) word meaning 'a home' or 'camping place'.{{Cite web , url=http://www.anps.org.au/Canowindra.html , title=ANPS - Working on Canowindra , access-date=15 May 2018 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180309224619/http://anps.org.au/Canowindra.html , archive-date=9 March 2018 , url-status=dead History Prior to the arrival of Europeans to Australia, the area now known as Canowindra was occupied for tens of thousands of years by a people known as the Wiradjuri. These "people of the three rivers" were hunters and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blayney, New South Wales
Blayney is a farming town and administrative centre with a population of 2,997 in 2021, in the Central West, New South Wales, Central West region of New South Wales, Australia. Situated on the Mid-Western Highway about west of Sydney, west of Bathurst, New South Wales, Bathurst and above sea-level, Blayney is the seat of Blayney Shire Council. History Prior to European settlement the area was occupied by the Aboriginal Wiradjuri and, or, Gandangara, Gundungara peoples. The first European to travel through area was surveyor George Evans (explorer), George Evans, in 1815 and unofficial occupation of the district began in 1821. The first land grant in the general area known as Coombing Park was issued to Thomas Icely in 1829. In 1836 the locality was known as King's Plains, with Doyle's inn being the only public-house. There was also a mill worked by a man called Lambert. In 1842 George Gipps, Governor Gipps proposed the creation of a village to be named 'Blayney'. His pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Government Of New South Wales
The Government of New South Wales, also known as the NSW Government, is the executive state government of New South Wales, Australia. The government comprises 11 portfolios, led by a ministerial department and supported by several agencies. There are also a number of independent agencies that fall under a portfolio but remain at arms-length for political reasons, such as the Independent Commission Against Corruption (New South Wales), Independent Commission Against Corruption and New South Wales Electoral Commission, Electoral Commission. The state Executive Council of New South Wales, Executive Council, consisting of the Governor of New South Wales, governor and senior ministers, exercises the executive authority through the relevant portfolio. The current government is held by the New South Wales Labor Party, state Labor Party, led by Premier Chris Minns. Minns succeeded Dominic Perrottet from the Liberal Party of Australia (New South Wales Division), Liberal Party on 28 Marc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wiradjuri
The Wiradjuri people (; ) are a group of Aboriginal Australian people from central New South Wales, united by common descent through kinship and shared traditions. They survived as skilled hunter-fisher-gatherers, in family groups or clans, and many still use knowledge of hunting and gathering techniques as part of their customary life. In the 21st century, major Wiradjuri groups live in Condobolin, Peak Hill, Narrandera and Griffith. There are significant populations at Wagga Wagga and Leeton and smaller groups at West Wyalong, Parkes, Dubbo, Forbes, Cootamundra, Darlington Point, Cowra and Young. Name The Wiradjuri autonym is derived from , meaning "no" or "not", with the comitative suffix or meaning "having". That the Wiradjuri said , as opposed to some other word for "no", was seen as a distinctive feature of their speech, and several other tribes in New South Wales, to the west of the Great Dividing Range, are similarly named after their own words for "no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indigenous Australians
Indigenous Australians are people with familial heritage from, or recognised membership of, the various ethnic groups living within the territory of contemporary Australia prior to History of Australia (1788–1850), British colonisation. They consist of two distinct groups, which include many ethnic groups: the Aboriginal Australians of the mainland and many islands, including Aboriginal Tasmanians, Tasmania, and the Torres Strait Islanders of the seas between Queensland and Papua New Guinea, located in Melanesia. 812,728 people Aboriginality, self-identified as being of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander origin in the 2021 Australian Census, representing 3.2% of the total population of Australia. Of these Indigenous Australians, 91.4% identified as Aboriginal, 4.2% identified as Torres Strait Islander, and 4.4% identified with both groups. The term Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples or the person's specific cultural group, is often preferred, though the term ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Aboriginal Languages
The Indigenous languages of Australia number in the hundreds, the precise number being quite uncertain, although there is a range of estimates from a minimum of around 250 (using the technical definition of 'language' as non-mutually intelligible varieties) up to possibly 363. The Indigenous languages of Australia comprise numerous language family, language families and language isolate, isolates, perhaps as many as 13, spoken by the Aboriginal Australians, Indigenous peoples of mainland Australia and a few nearby islands. The relationships between the language families are not clear at present although there are proposals to link some into larger groupings. Despite this uncertainty, the Indigenous Australian languages are collectively covered by the technical term "Australian languages", or the "Australian family". The term can include both Tasmanian languages and the Kalaw Lagaw Ya, Western Torres Strait language, but the Genetic relationship (linguistics), genetic relations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Watercourse
A stream is a continuous body of water, body of surface water Current (stream), flowing within the stream bed, bed and bank (geography), banks of a channel (geography), channel. Depending on its location or certain characteristics, a stream may be referred to by a variety of local or regional names. Long, large streams are usually called rivers, while smaller, less voluminous and more intermittent river, intermittent streams are known, amongst others, as brook, creek, rivulet, rill, run, tributary, feeder, freshet, narrow river, and streamlet. The flow of a stream is controlled by three inputs – surface runoff (from precipitation or meltwater), daylighting (streams), daylighted subterranean river, subterranean water, and surfaced groundwater (Spring (hydrology), spring water). The surface and subterranean water are highly variable between periods of rainfall. Groundwater, on the other hand, has a relatively constant input and is controlled more by long-term patterns of pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
River Mouth
A river mouth is where a river flows into a larger body of water, such as another river, a lake/reservoir, a bay/gulf, a sea, or an ocean. At the river mouth, sediments are often deposited due to the slowing of the current, reducing the carrying capacity of the water. The water from a river can enter the receiving body in a variety of different ways. The motion of a river is influenced by the relative density of the river compared to the receiving water, the rotation of the Earth, and any ambient motion in the receiving water, such as tides or seiches. If the river water has a higher density than the surface of the receiving water, the river water will plunge below the surface. The river water will then either form an underflow or an interflow within the lake. However, if the river water is lighter than the receiving water, as is typically the case when fresh river water flows into the sea, the river water will float along the surface of the receiving water as an overflow. Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carcoar Dam
Carcoar Dam is a minor ungated concrete double parabolic arch dam with an uncontrolled overflow spillway across the Belubula River upstream of Carcoar in the central west region of New South Wales, Australia. The dam's purpose includes irrigation, water supply, and water conservation. Location and features Commenced in 1969 and completed in 1970, Carcoar Dam is a minor dam on the Belubula River, a tributary of the Lachlan River, within the Lachlan Valley, approximately north of the village of Carcoar and south of the town of Blayney. Water from the dam is released directly into the Belubula River which is used by irrigators downstream of the dam, and for stock and domestic requirements along the Belubula River. The dam wall height is and is long. The maximum water depth is and at 100% capacity the dam wall holds back of water at AHD. The surface area of the dam is and the catchment area is . The dam uses a free-flowing spillway which is capable of discharging . The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
