Mulloon is a locality in the
Queanbeyan-Palerang Region,
Southern Tablelands
The Southern Tablelands is a geographic area of New South Wales, Australia, located south-west of Sydney and west of the Great Dividing Range.
The area is characterised by high, flat country which has generally been extensively cleared and ...
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, Australia. At the , it had a population of 144.
Mulloon lies generally to the south of the
Kings Highway between
Bungendore
Bungendore is a town in the Queanbeyan Region of New South Wales, Australia, in Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council. It is on the Kings Highway, Australia, Kings Highway near Lake George, New South Wales, Lake George, the Molonglo River Valley ...
and
Braidwood on both sides of Mulloon Creek, a tributary of Reedy Creek, which flows into the
Shoalhaven River. The high ground along the western edge of the Mulloon Creek catchment is part of the crest of the
Great Dividing Range.
The area now known as Mulloon lies close to the boundaries of the traditional lands of the
Ngarigo
The Ngarigo People (also spelt Garego, Ngarego, Ngarago, Ngaragu, Ngarigu, Ngarrugu or Ngarroogoo) are Aboriginal Australian people of southeast New South Wales, whose traditional lands also extend around the present border with Victoria.
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people, to the west, and the
Walbanga
The Walbunja, also spelt Walbanga and Walbunga, are an Aboriginal Australian people of New South Wales, part of the Yuin nation.
Language
The Walbunja language may be a dialect of Dhurga.
Country
Walbunja Country covers a region from Cape Dr ...
people, a group of the
Yuin
The Yuin nation, also spelt Djuwin, is a group of Australian Aboriginal peoples from the South Coast of New South Wales. All Yuin people share ancestors who spoke, as their first language, one or more of the Yuin language dialects. Sub-group ...
, to the east.
Mulloon had a
public school from 1872 to 1886, which operated "half-time". Its "half time" partner school was Ingledow School.
In recent years, the Mulloon Creek catchment has become well known, as the location of projects to revive watercourses and eroded and degraded land. The work began with a demonstration project in 2006, on 3 km of Mulloon Creek at Mulloon. It is now being scaled up to involve around twenty landholders within the catchment, covering 23,000 hectares and 50 km of watercourses.
References
External links
Stream and rehabilitation projects in the Mulloon Creek catchment
Queanbeyan–Palerang Regional Council
Localities in New South Wales
Southern Tablelands
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