Nowlands Gap, also known as Nowlands Pass and Murrurundi Gap, is a

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over the

Liverpool Range The Liverpool Range is a mountain range and a lava-field province in New South Wales, Australia. The eastern peaks of the range were the traditional territory of the Wonnarua people. Geography The Liverpool Range starts from the volcanic plate ...

, part of the

Great Dividing Range The Great Dividing Range, also known as the East Australian Cordillera or the Eastern Highlands, is a cordillera system in eastern Australia consisting of an expansive collection of mountain ranges, plateaus and rolling hills, that runs rough ...

, that provides access between the

Northern Tablelands The Northern Tablelands, also known as the New England Tableland, is a plateau and a region of the Great Dividing Range in northern New South Wales, Australia. It includes the New England Range, the narrow highlands area of the New England regio ...

and

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regions of

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Location and features

William Nowland William Nowland (September 1804 – April 28, 1884) was the son of Second Fleet convicts Michael Nowland and Elizabeth Richards. Born in Castlehill in September 1804. He had received 160 acres of land in the Singleton area. He helped established ...

, a farmer from Singleton (then known as Patrick's Plains), discovered Nowlands Gap north of

Murrurundi Murrurundi( ), is a rural town located in the Upper Hunter Shire, in the Upper Hunter region of New South Wales, Australia. Murrurundi is situated northwest by road from Newcastle and north from Sydney. At the the town had a population of 84 ...

in 1827. The pass is approximately

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and is surrounded by high ground of over . The

New England Highway New England Highway is an long highway in Australia running from Yarraman, north of Toowoomba, Queensland at its northern end to Hexham at Newcastle, New South Wales at its southern end. It is part of Australia's National Highway system, an ...

carries vehicular traffic over the range, and the Main North railway line passes under the range via the

Ardglen Tunnel The Ardglen Tunnel, also called the Liverpool Range tunnel, is a heritage-listed summit rail tunnel located on the Main North railway between Ardglen in the Liverpool Plains Shire and Murrurundi in the Upper Hunter Shire local government area ...

. The

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maintains a

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at the pass, named Murrurundi Gap station.

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Murrurundi
- The Sydney Morning Herald Northern Tablelands Mountain passes of Australia Hunter Region Great Dividing Range {{HunterRegion-geo-stub

Location and features

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