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Bargo, New South Wales
Bargo is a town in the Macarthur, New South Wales, Macarthur Region of Sydney, Greater Sydney in New South Wales, Australia, in the Wollondilly Shire. It is located approximately halfway between Campbelltown, New South Wales, Campbelltown and Bowral, about 100 km south west of the Sydney CBD. It is situated between the township of Tahmoor, New South Wales, Tahmoor (north) and the village of Yanderra, New South Wales, Yanderra (south), and accessible via the Hume Highway that links Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne. It was previously known as West Bargo and Cobargo. History The name Bargo may be derived from the local Australian Aboriginal languages, Aboriginal language name ''Barago'', meaning cripple, thick scrub, or brushwood. The earliest reference to ''Barago'' was noted as by George Caley in a letter to Joseph Banks, Sir Joseph Banks on 25 September 1807. The Aboriginal Australians, Aboriginal people, called the Bargo area ''Narregarang'', meaning that the soil was not f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macarthur (New South Wales)
Macarthur is a region in the South Western Sydney, Outer South-West part of the Sydney, Greater Sydney area, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. The region includes the Local government in Australia, local government areas of the City of Campbelltown (New South Wales), City of Campbelltown, the Camden Council (New South Wales), Camden Council and the Wollondilly Shire. It covers an area of 3,067 square kilometres and has a population of close to 310,000 residents. The region is bounded at the north by Glenfield, New South Wales, Glenfield; at the south by Yanderra; at the east by the town of Appin, New South Wales, Appin; and at the west by the hamlet Nattai, New South Wales, Nattai. Most of the population lives within the satellite city of City of Campbelltown (New South Wales), Campbelltown and its surrounding suburbs. The region is one of the fastest-growing regions in the Sydney metropolitan area, with many new modern suburbs sprouting up in recent decades such a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Caley
George Caley (10 June 1770 – 23 May 1829) was an English botanist and explorer, active in Australia for the majority of his career. Early life Caley was born in Craven District, Craven, Yorkshire, England, the son of a horse-dealer. He was educated at the Free Grammar School at Manchester for around four years and was then taken into his father's stables. According to a letter which was sent to William Withering on 15 June 1798, he started teaching himself botany after he coming across a volume of book about farriery which was written by William Gibson cause he became interested in the herbs mentioned in prescriptions. He started learning botany by studying Botanical arrangement (1787–92) by William Withering. He changed his job to that of a weaver in order to allow himself to spend more time with his associate in Manchester School of Botanists which consist of John Mellor (botanist), John Mellor, James Crowther (botanist), James Crowther, and John Dewhurst. This school was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Demountable
A portable, demountable or transportable building is a building designed and built to be movable rather than permanently located. Smaller version of portable buildings are also known as portable cabins. Portable cabins are prefabricated structures manufactured for uses such as site office, security cabin, accommodation, storage, toilets etc. Portable cabins are a cheaper alternative to traditional buildings and are useful when accommodation is required for an uncertain period of time. A common modern design is sometimes called a modular building but portable buildings can be different in that they are more often used temporarily and taken away later. Portable buildings (e.g. yurts) have been used since prehistoric times. Many modern types of portable buildings are designed so that they can be carried to or from the site on a large lorry and slung on and off by a Crane (machine), crane. Modern usage The first portable building under the trade name Portakabin was developed i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern Highlands Line
The Southern Highlands Line (SHL) is an Inter-city rail, intercity rail service that services the Macarthur, New South Wales, Macarthur, Southern Highlands (New South Wales), Southern Highlands and Southern Tablelands regions of New South Wales. First operating in 1869, the service runs from across the Main Southern railway line, New South Wales, Main Southern railway line through to , with peak hour services extending the route to . The railway service operates alongside a bus route from to , operating on the route of the Picton – Mittagong loop railway line, and a regional intercity bus service, coach service from to on the South Coast Line, operating on the corridor of the Unanderra–Moss Vale railway line. One of only two routes on the NSW TrainLink intercity network to run entirely on non-electrified railway lines, the Southern Highlands Line is operated with a rolling stock solely consisting of New South Wales Endeavour railcar, Endeavour railcars, with most servi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney Trains
Sydney Trains is the brand name and operator of Railways in Sydney, suburban and intercity train services in and around Greater Sydney in New South Wales, Australia. The metropolitan part of the network is a hybrid urban rail, urban-suburban rail system with a central underground core, that covers of route length over of track, with List of Sydney Trains railway stations, 168 stations on nine lines. Within Sydney, the network has frequencies of 5–10 minutes during peak-time at most inner-city and major stations, and 15 minutes off-peak at most minor stations. During the weekday peak, train services are more frequent. The network is managed by Transport for NSW and is part of its Opal card, Opal ticketing system. In 2023–24, 302 million passenger journeys were made on the suburban network, making it the Commuter rail in Australia, most-used rail network in Australia. History In May 2012, the Minister for Transport (New South Wales), Minister for Transport announced a r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Main Southern Railway Line, New South Wales
The Main Southern Railway (or Great Southern Railway) is a major railway in New South Wales, Australia. It runs from Sydney to Albury, near the Victoria, Australia, Victorian border. The line passes through the Southern Highlands, New South Wales, Southern Highlands, Southern Tablelands, South West Slopes and Riverina regions. Description of route The Main Southern Railway commences as an electrified pair of tracks in the Sydney metropolitan area. Since 1924, the line branches from the Main Suburban railway line at Lidcombe railway station, Lidcombe and runs via Regents Park railway station, Regents Park to Cabramatta railway station, Cabramatta, where it rejoins the original route from Granville railway station, Granville. The line then heads towards Campbelltown railway station, Campbelltown and Macarthur railway station, Macarthur, the current limit of Railway electrification system, electrification and Passenger services, suburban passenger services. The electrification pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bargo Railway Station, New South Wales
Bargo railway station is located on the Main Southern line in New South Wales, Australia. It serves the town of Bargo, opening on 13 July 1919 as West Bargo at the same time as a new alignment between Picton and Mittagong. It was renamed Bargo on 1 November 1921. Platforms and services Bargo has two side platforms. It is serviced by NSW TrainLink Southern Highlands Line services travelling between Campbelltown and Moss Vale with 2 weekend morning services to Sydney Central and limited evening services to Goulburn. Transport links Picton Buslines operate two routes via Bargo station: *911: to Buxton & Picton *912: Yanderra to Picton Berrima Buslines operate one route that serves Bargo station: *806: to Mittagong Mittagong () is a town located in the Southern Highlands (New South Wales), Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia, in Wingecarribee Shire. The town acts as the gateway to the Southern Highlands when coming from Sydney. Mittagong is si ... Refe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bargo Station 2
Bargo is a town in the Macarthur Region of Greater Sydney in New South Wales, Australia, in the Wollondilly Shire. It is located approximately halfway between Campbelltown and Bowral, about 100 km south west of the Sydney CBD. It is situated between the township of Tahmoor (north) and the village of Yanderra (south), and accessible via the Hume Highway that links Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne. It was previously known as West Bargo and Cobargo. History The name Bargo may be derived from the local Aboriginal language name ''Barago'', meaning cripple, thick scrub, or brushwood. The earliest reference to ''Barago'' was noted as by George Caley in a letter to Sir Joseph Banks on 25 September 1807. The Aboriginal people, called the Bargo area ''Narregarang'', meaning that the soil was not firm – a shaky place. Caley's Aboriginal guide Mowatiin referred to the area's name as meaning "place of cliffs" or "thick shrubs". Early explorers and convicts found getting throu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Massacres Of Indigenous Australians
Colonial settlers frequently clashed with Indigenous people (on continental Australia) during and after the History of Australia (1788–1850), wave of mass immigration of Europeans into the continent, which began in the late 18th century and lasted until the early 20th. Throughout this period, settlers attacked and displaced Indigenous Australians, resulting in significant numbers of Indigenous deaths. These attacks are considered to be a direct and indirect (through displacement and hunger) cause of the decline of the Indigenous Australians, Indigenous population, during an ongoing colonising process of mass immigration and land clearing for agricultural and mining purposes. There are over 400 known massacres of Indigenous people on the continent. A project headed by historian Lyndall Ryan from the University of Newcastle (Australia), University of Newcastle and funded by the Australian Research Council has been researching and mapping the sites of these massacres. A massacre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wombat
Wombats are short-legged, muscular quadrupedal marsupials of the family Vombatidae that are native to Australia. Living species are about in length with small, stubby tails and weigh between . They are adaptable and habitat tolerant, and are found in forested, mountainous, and heathland areas of southern and eastern Australia, including Tasmania, as well as an isolated patch of about in Epping Forest National Park in central Queensland. Etymology The name "wombat" comes from the now nearly extinct Dharug language spoken by the aboriginal Dharug people, who originally inhabited the Sydney area. It was first recorded in January 1798, when John Price and James Wilson, Europeans who had adopted aboriginal ways, visited the area of what is now Bargo, New South Wales. Price wrote: "We saw several sorts of dung of different animals, one of which Wilson called a 'Whom-batt', which is an animal about high, with short legs and a thick body with a large head, round ears, and very ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koala
The koala (''Phascolarctos cinereus''), sometimes inaccurately called the koala bear, is an arboreal herbivorous marsupial native to Australia. It is the only Extant taxon, extant representative of the Family (biology), family ''Phascolarctidae''. Its closest living relatives are the wombats. The koala is found in coastal areas of the island's eastern and southern regions, inhabiting Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria (state), Victoria, and South Australia. It is easily recognisable by its stout, tailless body and large head with round, fluffy ears and large, dark nose. The koala has a body length of and weighs . Its fur colour ranges from silver grey to chocolate brown. Koalas from the northern populations are typically smaller and lighter in colour than their counterparts further south. These populations are possibly separate subspecies, but not all researchers accept this. Koalas typically inhabit open ''Eucalyptus'' woodland, as the leaves of these trees make up mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyrebird
A lyrebird is either of two species of ground-dwelling Australian birds that compose the genus ''Menura'', and the family Menuridae. They are most notable for their impressive ability to mimic natural and artificial sounds from their environment, and the striking beauty of the male bird's huge tail when it is fanned out in courtship display. Lyrebirds have unique plumes of neutral-coloured tailfeathers and are among Australia's best-known native birds. Taxonomy The classification of lyrebirds was the subject of much debate after the first specimens reached European scientists after 1798. Based on specimens sent from New South Wales to England, Major-General Thomas Davies illustrated and described this species as the superb lyrebird, which he called ''Menura superba'', in an 1800 presentation to the Linnean Society of London, but this work was not published until 1802; in the intervening time period, however, the species was described and named ''Menura novaehollandiae'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
