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Cataract Falls (Blue Mountains)
Cataract Falls is a multilevel fall located near the town of Lawson in NSW ) , nickname = , image_map = New South Wales in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of New South Wales in AustraliaCoordinates: , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , es ..., within the South Lawson Waterfall Circuit. It is accesed from a track from the south carpark of the circuit. It is also the last fall in the South Lawson Waterfall Circuit. Overview Accessed from a track from the southern carpark of The South Lawson Waterfall Circuit, Cataract Falls is the only multilevel fall in the circuit, and the tallest one too. The two levels, med and low, can be accessed by two tracks along Cataract Creek. References Waterfalls of New South Wales {{Waterfall-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Mountains (New South Wales)
The Blue Mountains are a mountainous region and a mountain range located in New South Wales, Australia. The region borders on Sydney's metropolitan area, its foothills starting about west of centre of the state capital, close to Penrith on the outskirts of Greater Sydney region. The public's understanding of the extent of the Blue Mountains is varied, as it forms only part of an extensive mountainous area associated with the Great Dividing Range. As defined in 1970, the Blue Mountains region is bounded by the Nepean and Hawkesbury rivers in the east, the Coxs River and Lake Burragorang to the west and south, and the Wolgan and Colo rivers to the north. Geologically, it is situated in the central parts of the Sydney Basin. The ''Blue Mountains Range'' comprises a range of mountains, plateau escarpments extending off the Great Dividing Range about northwest of Wolgan Gap in a generally southeasterly direction for about , terminating at . For about two-thirds of its len ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawson, New South Wales
Lawson is a town in the Blue Mountains area of New South Wales, Australia. It is located on the Great Western Highway between Hazelbrook in the east and Bullaburra in the west. Lawson has a station on the Main Western line. The town is also served by a public swimming pool and over the years has developed into the commercial hub of the mid-mountains area, which spans from Linden to Bullaburra, boasting a significant industrialized area as well as a shopping center located on the south-eastern side of the highway. History One of the first settlements on the eastern slopes of the Blue Mountains, Lawson was identified on early maps as 24 Mile Hollow–a name which was changed to Christmas Swamp for a few years. When the Blue Mountain Inn was opened in 1848, the locals adopted the name Blue Mountain for the village. This name was also given to the original railway station after the rail line was pushed through in 1867. The presence of a Blue Mountain on the Blue Mountains, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New South Wales
) , nickname = , image_map = New South Wales in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of New South Wales in AustraliaCoordinates: , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , established_date = Colony of New South Wales , established_title2 = Establishment , established_date2 = 26 January 1788 , established_title3 = Responsible government , established_date3 = 6 June 1856 , established_title4 = Federation , established_date4 = 1 January 1901 , named_for = Wales , demonym = , capital = Sydney , largest_city = capital , coordinates = , admin_center = 128 local government areas , admin_center_type = Administration , leader_title1 = Monarch , leader_name1 = Charles III , leader_title2 = Governor , leader_name2 = Margaret Beazley , leader_title3 = Premier , leader_name3 = Dominic Perrottet (Liberal) , national_representation = Parliament of Australia , national_representation_type1 = Senat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Lawson Waterfall Circuit
The South Lawson Waterfall Circuit, officially the South Lawson Circular Waterfall Track or informally the Five Waterfall Walk, is a walk in Lawson, New South Wales, Australia. It is a track that bypasses five waterfalls and an optional sixth one. The landscape changes a lot in the walk, ranging from wet, temperate forest, to dry forest with Sydney Blue Gum, blue gums and Wildflower, wildflowers around. The track follows the banks of Lawson and Cataract Creek, and is rated as easy to medium. It has an elevation gain of {{Convert, 117, m, ft along the track. Overview Just south of the town of Lawson, New South Wales, Lawson in the Blue Mountains (New South Wales), Blue Mountains, The South Lawson Waterfall Circuit is a popular walk in the town. The whole walk is in a Temperate rainforest, temperate biome, and has a large diversity of fauna and flora, including the Musky rat-kangaroo, Musky Rat-Kangaroo, Eastern whipbird, Eastern Whipbird, rarely the Superb lyrebird, Superb Lyre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
