Phantom Falls over Narrow Neck, Katoomba can be viewed from several locations. The easiest spot to access is here: https://w3w.co/flowed.accompany.technical ALSO: https://w3w.co/chat.darts.pitches ALSO: https://w3w.co/rustic.towers.dates Read our Phantom Falls eMag: https://www.askroz.com.au/blog/phantom-falls-katoomba-blue-mountains
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The Gully, also known as Catalina Park or Frank Walford Park, is the largest Aboriginal Place in New South Wales, albeit with a sad history. Source: https://www.creativespirits.info/australia/new-south-wales/katoomba/the-gully-catalina-park#ixzz6yTpiussJ More info here: https://www.creativespirits.info/australia/new-south-wales/katoomba/the-gully-catalina-park
Catalina Park is a disused motor racing venue, located in Katoomba in the Blue Mountains, NSW and is recognised as an Aboriginal Place due to the long association of the local Gundungarra and Darug peoples. More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalina_Park More info here: https://www.racingcircuits.info/australasia/australia/catalina-park.html#.YNFB7jYzZhE
Blue Mountains City Council has 9 cemeteries, 8 are active. Our bushland style cemeteries dating back to the 1880’s tell many stories about our cultural heritage. More info here: https://www.bmcc.nsw.gov.au/community/cemeteries/our-cemeteries
Mount Irvine (850m) It is claimed that those responsible for naming the mountain beyond Mount Wilson in the late 1860s mistakenly gave it this name in the belief that it was located within the parish of Irvine. It is actually in the parish of Bilpin. Another theory suggests that the name was given in honour… Read More: What is the history of Mount Irvine »
Mount Wilson (1008m) This location was surveyed by W. R. Govett in 1833. However, it was not until after 1867, when it was rediscovered by George Bartley Bowen and subsequently surveyed and subdivided by Edward Sanford Wyndham of the Government Survey Department, that the area was settled. In 1868 the Deputy Surveyor-General P. F. Adams,… Read More: What is the history of Mount Wilson »
Bell (1067m) A railway platform was opened here in 1875 with the name Mount Wilson. This was changed to Bell in 1889, in honour of Archibald Bell Jnr., of Richmond Hill, who discovered a route over Mount Tomah to the Cox’s River in 1823. This alternative route across the Blue Mountains became known as Bell’s… Read More: What is the history of Bell »
Mount Victoria (1111m) This name was given by Surveyor-General Thomas Mitchell to the mountain down which his Pass of Victoria was constructed in 1832. His surveyors also marked the highest point in the area which appeared on Mitchell’s map as One Tree Hill. In 1849 a toll bar was erected about a mile and a… Read More: What is the history of Mount Victoria »
Megalong Valley (578m) The name Megalong is of Aboriginal origin, said to mean roughly “valley under the rock”. The valley, first surveyed in 1838, was settled long before the railway crossed the Blue Mountains, the pioneers travelling up from the districts of Burragorang and Camden. In the 1880s, with the opening of the Six Foot… Read More: What is the history of Megalong Valley »