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Blackheath (postcode: 2785) is a town [2] located near the highest point of the Blue Mountains, between Katoomba and Mount Victoria in New South Wales, Australia.The town's altitude is about 1,065 m (3,494 ft) AHD and it is located about 120 km (75 mi) west north-west of Sydney, 11 km (6.8 mi) north-west of Katoomba, and about 30 km (19 mi) south-east of Lithgow.
The former town of Aberfeldy averages 32.5 snowy days per annum at 1,060 metres (3,480 ft), [3] making it the snowiest locality in mainland Australia, in addition to having more snowy days than northern hemisphere cities with colder winters like Boston (23.0 days), Chicago (28.2 days) and even approaching those of Minneapolis (38.2 days).
The first BBC weather forecast was a shipping forecast, broadcast on the radio on behalf of the Met Office on 14 November 1922, and the first daily weather forecast was broadcast on 26 March 1923. In 1936, the BBC experimented with the world's first televised weather maps, brought into practice in 1949 after World War II. The map filled the ...
Blackheath, London, England . Blackheath (Lewisham ward), an electoral ward for the Lewisham London Borough Council Blackheath railway station; Hundred of Blackheath, Kent, an ancient hundred in the north west of the county of Kent, England
Blackheath Primary School is located in the area, [2] and was originally built by Rowley Regis urban district council on Powke Lane during the late 19th century, incorporating a 5-7 infant school and 7-11 junior school and later including a nursery unit for 3 and 4 year olds. The schools merged in September 1990 to form Blackheath Primary ...
Blackheath is a 141.6-hectare (350-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south-east of Guildford in Surrey. [1] [2]This area of dry lowland heath and acid grassland is managed for conservation and fauna includes a wide range of breeding birds, the vulnerable heathland spider Oxyopes heterophthalmus and the rare beetle Lomechusoides strumosa.
Blackheath is an area in Southeast London, straddling the border of the Royal Borough of Greenwich and the London Borough of Lewisham. [3] Historically within the county of Kent, it is located 1-mile (1.6 km) northeast of Lewisham, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south of Greenwich and 6.4 miles (10.3 km) southeast of Charing Cross, the traditional centre of London.
Blackheath Common is an area of 250 acres (100 ha) of heathland in Surrey, England, near the village of Albury in the borough of Waverley. It is part of the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty , and much of the common is a designated Site of Special Scientific Interest .