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The lakes themselves are a series of 12 man-made quarries from which coarse sand and gravel has been mined since the 1880s, [3] with large-scale mining operations occurring since the 1950s. [4] Penrith Lakes was the largest sand and gravel quarry in Australia [5] until the discontinuation of mining activities in 2015. [3]
The Castlereagh Nature Reserve is a protected nature reserve located in the western suburbs of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia.The 495-hectare (1,220-acre) reserve is situated 60 kilometres (37 mi) west of the central business district, approximately 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) north-east of Penrith and located near the townships of Castlereagh and Londonderry.
Having low nutrient soils, it sits on wind-blown sand over the Tertiary Alluvium deposits from the Hawkesbury-Nepean River system, in areas that receives 700–900 mm annual rainfall. [2] The community morphs into the smaller, Castlereagh Swamp Woodland , a very proximate community which lies on poorly draining clay soils.
Bents Basin is around 36 km south of Penrith and 56 km south-west of Sydney central business district. To the east of the basin is a cleared undulating paddock on the clay soils from the Wianamatta Shale of the Cumberland Plain. The Basin adjoins Gulguer Nature Reserve to the south. Two small creeks exist in the area.
The gorge is located south of the western suburb of Penrith [2] and is administered and protected by the National Parks and Wildlife Service. It is carved through the sandstone typical of the region, Hawkesbury sandstone. There is some speculation [citation needed] as to why it runs through the eastern edge of the Blue Mountains rather than ...
The Agnes Banks Natural Area is a heritage-listed natural sand deposit, fauna habitat and native flora site at Rickards Avenue in the western Sydney suburb of Agnes Banks, New South Wales, Australia. It is also known as The Natural Area and Agnes Banks Sand Deposits. The property is owned by CSR Limited and the NSW Office of Environment and ...
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European settlement along the Hawkesbury River at Windsor and Richmond was established by the mid-1790s. In June 1789, an exploration party led by Governor Phillip and Captain Watkin Tench reached the banks of the Nepean River near to the future sites of Penrith and Castlereagh, where they observed there to be good soil for planting crops and grazing, and exchanged food and gifts with the ...