Bowen Mountain is a small town in
New South Wales
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...
, in the
City of Hawkesbury
The City of Hawkesbury is a local government area of New South Wales, Australia, part of which is at the fringe of the Sydney metropolitan area, about north-west of the Sydney central business district. Hawkesbury City is named after the Hawkes ...
. It is in the foothills of the
Blue Mountains.
The nearest commercial centre is
Kurrajong, which lies approximately 5 km to the north-east.
It is named after
George M. C. Bowen, an earlier setter of the area.
Features
A large part of Bowen Mountain belongs to the
Blue Mountains National Park
The Blue Mountains National Park is a protected national park that is located in the Blue Mountains region of New South Wales, in eastern Australia. The national park is situated approximately west of Sydney, and the park boundary is quite ...
, which covers an area of 247,000 hectares. The National Park caters extensively for bushwalkers, with many lookouts and more than 140 km of walking tracks.
Bowen Mountain is home to the
Crago Observatory
Crago Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned by the Astronomical Society of New South Wales. It is located at Bowen Mountain, New South Wales, Bowen Mountain, near North Richmond, New South Wales, North Richmond, which is around from S ...
, which consists of a computer-guided
Dobsonian telescope
A Dobsonian telescope is an altazimuth-mounted Newtonian telescope design popularized by John Dobson in 1965 and credited with vastly increasing the size of telescopes available to amateur astronomers. Dobson's telescopes featured a simplified ...
housed in a large rotating dome. It is operated by the
Astronomical Society of NSW.
Demographics
At the
2016 census, the population was 1,571. Of these:
* The median age was 35 years, compared to the national median of 38 years.
* 55.6% were married and 11.1% were either divorced or separated.
* 83.6% of people were born in Australia and 91.1% of people only spoke English at home.
References
External links
Magnetic Hill
Towns in New South Wales
City of Hawkesbury
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