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Portland, New South Wales
Portland is a town in the Central Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia. At the , Portland had a population of 2,424 people. The town was named after Australia's first cement works. Location Portland is part of the gateway to the Central West and is located between Oberon, New South Wales, Oberon, Mudgee, Bathurst, New South Wales, Bathurst, Lithgow, New South Wales, Lithgow, and the Blue Mountains (New South Wales), Blue Mountains. It is a short drive from both the Great Western and Castlereagh Highways. It is accessed from the Great Western Highway via Wallerawang or from Sunny Corner Rd at Meadow Flat. It is accessed from the Castlereagh Highway via Boulder Road at the Mount Piper Power Station, Mt Piper Power Station. The town centre has a distinct business district, several parks and sporting clubs. History Prior to European settlement, the Portland region was occupied by the Wiradjuri people. The first European in the area was James Blackman who surveyed roads in the a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of Lithgow
The City of Lithgow is a local government area in the Central West region of New South Wales, Australia. The area is located adjacent to the Great Western Highway and the Main Western railway line. The mayor of the City of Lithgow Council is Cr. Maree Statham, who is unaligned with any political party. Main towns and villages The council seat is located in the city of Lithgow, the largest regional centre. The area also includes the towns and villages of Bell, Ben Bullen, Bogee, Bowenfels, Capertee, Clarence, Cullen Bullen, Dargan, Glen Alice, Glen Davis, Hampton, Hartley, , , Marrangaroo, Meadow Flat, Newnes, Portland, Rydal, Sodwalls, Tarana, and Wallerawang. Demographics According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics on 2006 census night there were: * 21,157 people living in the area, making the City the 77th largest Local Government Area in New South Wales. It was equal to 0.3% of the New South Wales population of 6,827,694 * 116 more people living i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portland Cement
Portland cement is the most common type of cement in general use around the world as a basic ingredient of concrete, mortar (masonry), mortar, stucco, and non-specialty grout. It was developed from other types of hydraulic lime in England in the early 19th century by Joseph Aspdin, and is usually made from limestone. It is a fine powder (substance), powder, produced by heating limestone and clay minerals in a kiln to form Clinker (cement), clinker, and then #Cement grinding, grinding the clinker with the addition of several percent (often around 5%) gypsum. Several types of portland cement are available. The most common, historically called ordinary portland cement (OPC), is grey, but white portland cement is also available. The cement was so named by Joseph Aspdin, who obtained a patent for it in 1824, because, once hardened, it resembled the fine, pale limestone known as Portland stone, quarried from the windswept cliffs of the Isle of Portland in Dorset. Portland stone was p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wollemi National Park
The Wollemi National Park () is a protected national park and wilderness area that is located in the Central West and Hunter region of New South Wales, in eastern Australia. The park, the second largest national park in New South Wales, contains the Wollemi Wildernessthe largest such wilderness area in Australiaand is situated approximately northwest of Sydney. The Wollemi National Park is one of the eight protected areas that, in 2000, was inscribed to form part of the UNESCO World Heritagelisted Greater Blue Mountains Area. The Wollemi National Park is the most northwesterly of the eight protected areas within the World Heritage Site. The national park forms part of the Great Dividing Range. Due to the park's ruggedness, much of it is undiscovered by humans and the many canyons have yet to be explored. The only known living wild specimens of the Wollemi pine (''Wollemia nobilis'') were discovered in 1994. Special efforts were made to protect the trees when the 2019-2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geocaching
Geocaching (, ) is an outdoor recreational activity, in which participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or mobile device and other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers, called ''geocaches'' or ''caches'', at specific locations marked by coordinates all over the world. The first geocache was placed in 2000, and by 2023 there were over 3 million active caches worldwide. Geocaching can be considered a real-world, outdoor treasure hunting game. A typical cache is a small waterproof container containing a logbook and sometimes a pen or pencil. The ''geocacher'' signs the log with their established code name/username and dates it, in order to prove that they found the cache. After signing the log, the cache must be placed back exactly where the person found it. Larger containers such as plastic storage containers ( Tupperware or similar) or ammo boxes can also contain items for trading, such as toys or trinkets, usually of more sentimental worth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macropus Giganteus
The eastern grey kangaroo (''Macropus giganteus'': gigantic large-foot; also great grey kangaroo or forester kangaroo) is a marsupial found in the eastern third of Australia, with a population of several million. Although a large ''M. giganteus'' kangaroo male can typically weigh up to and have a length of well over , the scientific name is misleading as the red kangaroo of the semi-arid inland is larger, weighing up to . Taxonomy The eastern grey kangaroo was described by George Shaw in 1790 as ''Macropus giganteus''. Subspecies While two subspecies were recognised by Mammal Species of the World (MSW), there is some dispute as to the validity of this division, and the subspecies are not recognised by the Australian Mammal Society, the IUCN, or the American Society of Mammalogists, which produces the successor of the MSW. Albert Sherbourne Le Souef created the Tasmanian subspecies in 1923, based on coat colour. In 1972 Kirsch and Poole published a paper supporting the concept ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alisterus Scapularis
The Australian king parrot (''Alisterus scapularis'') is a species of parrot endemic to eastern Australia ranging from Cooktown in Queensland to Port Campbell in Victoria. Found in humid and heavily forested upland regions of the eastern portion of the continent, including eucalyptus wooded areas in and directly adjacent to subtropical and temperate rainforest. They feed on fruits and seeds gathered from trees or on the ground. Taxonomy The Australian king parrot was first described by the German naturalist Martin Lichtenstein in 1816 as ''Psittacus scapularis''. The species belongs to the genus '' Alisterus'', whose three members are also known as king parrots. The species are sometimes allied to the genus ''Aprosmictus''. Two subspecies are recognised, which are differentiated by size: *''A. s. minor'' (Mathews, 1911) *''A. s. scapularis'' (Lichtenstein, 1816) Naturally-occurring hybrids with the red-winged parrot (''Aprosmictus erythropterus'') have been recorded from Bell i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platycercus Elegans
The crimson rosella (''Platycercus elegans'') is a parrot native to eastern and south eastern Australia which has been introduced to New Zealand and Norfolk Island. It is commonly found in, but not restricted to, mountain forests and gardens. The species as it now stands has subsumed two former separate species, the yellow rosella and the Adelaide rosella. Molecular studies show one of the three red-coloured races, ''P. e. nigrescens'', is genetically more distinct. Taxonomy The crimson rosella was formally described in 1788 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's ''Systema Naturae''. He placed it with the parrots in the genus ''Psittacus'' and coined the binomial name ''Psittacus elegans''. This Latin name had been used in 1605 by the Flemish botanist Carolus Clusius in his book ''Exoticorum libri decem'' for the hawk-headed parrot, however this predates the start of Linnean taxonomy. The crimson rosella had b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calyptorhynchus Funereus
Described by French naturalist Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest in 1826, the genus ''Calyptorhynchus'' has two species of cockatoos. They are all mostly black in colour, and the taxa may be differentiated partly by size and partly by small areas of red, grey, and yellow plumage, especially in the tail feathers. Studies based on the mitochondrial DNA 12S gene fragment suggested that other sexually dichromatic species, the gang-gang cockatoo and the cockatiel may be the closest living relatives of ''Calyptorhynchus''. However, subsequent studies, including more genes confirm the morphological taxonomy with the gang-gang cockatoo most closely related to the galah, within the white cockatoo group, and with the cockatiel as a third distinct subfamily of cockatoos. The Yellow-tailed black cockatoo, Baudin's black cockatoo and Carnaby's black cockatoo Carnaby's black cockatoo (''Zanda latirostris''), also known as the short-billed black cockatoo, is a large Zanda (bird), black ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eucalyptus Macrorhyncha
''Eucalyptus macrorhyncha'', commonly known as the red stringybark, is a species of medium-sized tree that is Endemism, endemic to eastern Australia. It has rough, stringy, grey to brown bark, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of between seven and eleven, white flowers and hemispherical fruit. Description ''Eucalyptus macrorhyncha'' is a tree that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. It has rough, stringy, grey to reddish brown bark on the trunk and branches. Young plants and coppice regrowth have egg-shaped leaves long and wide. Adult leaves are lance-shaped to curved, the same dull to glossy green colour on both sides, long and wide on a Petiole (botany), petiole long. The flower buds are arranged in groups of seven, nine or eleven in leaf axils on an unbranched Peduncle (botany), peduncle long, the individual buds on Pedicel (botany), pedicels long. Mature buds are diamond-shaped, long and wide with a beaked Operculum (botany), opercu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Town Common
Common land is collective land (sometimes only open to those whose nation governs the land) in which all persons have certain common rights, such as to allow their livestock to graze upon it, to collect Wood fuel, wood, or to cut turf for fuel. A person who has a right in, or over, common land jointly with another or others is usually called a commoner. In Great Britain, common land or former common land is usually referred to as a common; for instance, Clapham Common and Mungrisdale Common. Due to enclosure, the extent of common land is now much reduced from the hundreds of square kilometres that existed until the 17th century, but a considerable amount of common land still exists, particularly in upland areas. There are over 8,000 registered commons in England alone. Origins Originally in medieval England the common was an integral part of the Manorialism, manor, and was thus part of the estate in land, estate held by the lord of the manor under a grant from the Crown or a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bureau Of Meteorology
The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM or BoM) is an executive agency of the Government of Australia, Australian Government that is responsible for providing Weather forecasting, weather forecasts and Meteorology, meteorological services to Australia and neighbouring countries. It was established in 1906 under the Meteorology Act (Cth), and brought together the States and territories of Australia, state meteorological services that existed before then. The states officially transferred their weather recording responsibilities to the Bureau of Meteorology on 1 January 1908. History The Bureau of Meteorology was established on 1 January 1908 following the passage of the ''Meteorology Act 1906''. Prior to Federation of Australia, Federation in 1901, each colony had had its own meteorological service, with all but two colonies also having a subsection devoted to astronomy. In August 1905, federal home affairs minister Littleton Groom surveyed state governments for their willingness to cede ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
