WhatsApp)
#0183;#32;Australia Is Destroying Aboriginal Heritage Sites for Mining Profit When it comes to Aboriginal land rights in Australia, several contradictions emanate. In May, the Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation which represents Aboriginal communities, won exclusive native title rights to land which is mined by Fortescue Metals Group.
National Heritage List inscription date 7 November 2008 The spectacular and distinctive Australian Alps extend over million hectares of public land contained in eleven national parks and nature reserves across Victoria, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. Unique natural environment The high altitude peaks and plateaus, glacial lakes and alpine and
THE MINING HERITAGE OF THE AUSTRALIAN ALPS In the heart of the high country, amp; cloaked by regrowing forest in the rugged ranges of south eastern Australia, these places bear mute witness to the most powerful European cultural influence of the mid 1800s to early 1900s, and a pioneering way of life now long gone.
Australian Alps, mountain mass, a segment of the Great Dividing Range (Eastern Uplands), occupying the southeasternmost corner of Australia, in eastern Victoria and southeastern New South a more local sense, the term denotes the ranges on the states border forming the divide between the watersheds of the Murray River system, flowing west, and the Snowy and other streams flowing
Mining The high country figured in the famous Australian gold rush of the nineteenth century. From the original strikes in central western New South Wales in 1851 and the rich Victorian fields at Ballarat and elsewhere, the fever moved on to yield discoveries in mountain places such as the Ovens valley, Kiandra, Omeo, Mitta Mitta, Dargo and Crooked River.
Culture and history | Australian Alps National Parks
#0183;#32;Alps Alps The economy: Before the mid19th century the economic basis of the Alps was predominantly agricultural and pastoral. Though since then there has been widespread abandonment of farms, especially in the high valleys of France and Italy and in western Austria, agriculture still survives in favoured locations both in the main and lateral valleys.
Australian Alps regional history Aboriginal occupation. The Australian Alps Bioregion was the traditional home of two Aboriginal groups. The Walgal people occupied the northern part of the bioregion near Kiandra in what is now Kosciuszko National Park, while the Ngarigo people lived in the region around the highlands (HO and DUAP 1996).Many of the Aboriginal groups in the southern part of
The Australian National Heritage List or National Heritage List (NHL) is a heritage register, a list of national heritage places deemed to be of outstanding heritage significance to Australia, established in 2003. The list includes natural and historic places, including those of cultural significance to Indigenous Australians such as Aboriginal Australian sacred sites.
Australia and is now restricted to certain areas of the Australian Alps Bioregion within Kosciuszko National Park (NSW NPWS 1988). The eastern or Tasmanian bettong (Bettongia gaimardi) has been recorded in the Australian Alps Bioregion since European settlementalthough ithas not)).), ((Australian Alps
The cultural heritage of the Australian Alps. [M Fletcher;] Home. WorldCat Home About WorldCat Help. Search. Search for Library Items Search for Lists Search for Contacts Search for a Library. Create lists, bibliographies and reviews: or Search WorldCat. Find items in
discovered as early as 1866. Mining began in 1874, and c ontinued through the 1890s. Peak years were the first decade of 1900s. In 1907 the Lobs Hole Copper Mining Co was formed, and they built a smelter, poppetheads amp; 38HP turbine fed by pipes from a water race. Mining ceased in 1916, and the syndicate was folded up in 1919.
The Australian Alps National Parks and Reserves is a group of protected areas found in the southeastern part of Australia, popularly known for being home to the Australian Alps. The area was established in 1999 and later listed in the Australian National Heritage List in November 2008.
1992, Cultural heritage of the Australian Alps : proceedings of the symposium held at Jindabyne, New South Wales, 1618 October 1991 / edited by Babette Scougall Australian Alps Liaison Committee Canberra. Wikipedia Citation. Please see Wikipedia''s template documentation for further citation fields that may be required.
WhatsApp)