Bushy Mountain, a
mountain of the
Nandewar Range, a spur of the
Great Dividing Range
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, is located in the
North West Slopes region of
New South Wales,
Australia
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. Busy Mountain is situated east of
Narrabri within the
Mount Kaputar National Park.
With an elevation of
above sea level
Height above mean sea level is a measure of the vertical distance (height, elevation or altitude) of a location in reference to a historic mean sea level taken as a vertical datum. In geodesy, it is formalized as ''orthometric heights''.
The comb ...
, Bushy Mount is part of the remnants of the Nandewar
extinct volcano that ceased activity about 17 million years ago after 4 million years of activity.
[Hutton, Geoffrey (1983). Australia's Natural Heritage (2nd ed.). Collins ]
See also
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List of mountains in New South Wales
References
Volcanoes of New South Wales
Mountains of New South Wales
Extinct volcanoes
North West Slopes
Tamworth Regional Council
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