The famous mountain range west of Sydney Australia is called the Blue Mountains.Nowdays Sydneys urban sprawl has pushed up to the base of the edge of the mountain range near at penrith and also in the the hawkesbury areas.
The mountains officially start about 60 kilometres to the west of Sydney.The famous Blue Mountains National park starts near the western side of the Nepean River and all the way in the west to the trout laden Coxs River.
The spectacular plateaus and epic gorges which can descend to over 700 metres below sea level but also rise at its highest at over 1,000 metres above the sea level.The majority of the Blue Mountains are listed in the Greater Blue Mountains Area World Heritage area and is a conservation area and contains seven national parks.
The rough perimeter of the Blue Mountains encompasses the City of Hawkesbury, the City of Blue Mountains, the City of Oberon and with its most westerly city being the quaint Lithgow.
It is well known that there were thousands of years of habitation before white settlers moved into the area.They have left us their art as a reminder of their presence.The well known hand stencil art is in Red Hands Cave at.We have also found axe sharpening areas.
The local koori`s mainly used two different routes to move round the rugged hills and valleys.The trails were on the bilpin ridge and the other was near the present day Cox`s river.The river paths were easier and lead onwards to the farms of the kanimbla valley.
Initially, european settlers considered the sandstone mountains impossible to penetrate due to the variety of extreme weather conditions encountered as well as the thickness of the vegetative canopy.The myth of the difficulty was encouraged by the authorities in the hope of scaring the convicts away from thoughts of escaping.
A former convict, John Wilson, is believed by some historians to have been the first man known to history to have crossed the Blue Mountains.He lived with the aboriginals and returned to Sydney in 1797 and claimed to have moved over 100 miles in a circuit round Sydney.
J.P.Wilson descriptions of the wild areas he supposedly visited later proved correct to explorers but he was never offically recognised at the time due to perceived class distinctions and the realistic desire of the authorities at the time who did not want to give convicts any hope of escape.Wilson was murdered by koori`s after stealing a local women.
The mountains officially start about 60 kilometres to the west of Sydney.The famous Blue Mountains National park starts near the western side of the Nepean River and all the way in the west to the trout laden Coxs River.
The spectacular plateaus and epic gorges which can descend to over 700 metres below sea level but also rise at its highest at over 1,000 metres above the sea level.The majority of the Blue Mountains are listed in the Greater Blue Mountains Area World Heritage area and is a conservation area and contains seven national parks.
The rough perimeter of the Blue Mountains encompasses the City of Hawkesbury, the City of Blue Mountains, the City of Oberon and with its most westerly city being the quaint Lithgow.
It is well known that there were thousands of years of habitation before white settlers moved into the area.They have left us their art as a reminder of their presence.The well known hand stencil art is in Red Hands Cave at.We have also found axe sharpening areas.
The local koori`s mainly used two different routes to move round the rugged hills and valleys.The trails were on the bilpin ridge and the other was near the present day Cox`s river.The river paths were easier and lead onwards to the farms of the kanimbla valley.
Initially, european settlers considered the sandstone mountains impossible to penetrate due to the variety of extreme weather conditions encountered as well as the thickness of the vegetative canopy.The myth of the difficulty was encouraged by the authorities in the hope of scaring the convicts away from thoughts of escaping.
A former convict, John Wilson, is believed by some historians to have been the first man known to history to have crossed the Blue Mountains.He lived with the aboriginals and returned to Sydney in 1797 and claimed to have moved over 100 miles in a circuit round Sydney.
J.P.Wilson descriptions of the wild areas he supposedly visited later proved correct to explorers but he was never offically recognised at the time due to perceived class distinctions and the realistic desire of the authorities at the time who did not want to give convicts any hope of escape.Wilson was murdered by koori`s after stealing a local women.
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