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Hide-and-seek (sometimes known as hide-and-go-seek) is a popular children's game in which at least two players (usually at least three) [1] conceal themselves in a set environment, to be found by one or more seekers. The game is played by one chosen player (designated as being "it") counting to a predetermined number with eyes closed while the ...
Forest Reefs was a gold mining area with alluvial gold being found in the 1860s and 1870s. [3] There was also very significant deep lead gold mining in the area, [4] [5] although the material mined from the deep leads needed to be crushed to obtain the gold it contained. Only a few of the reefs in the area were gold-bearing. [6] [7] [8]
Early efforts were focussed on alluvial gold and the towns of Hill End and Tambaroora grew up around the creeks and dams worked for that purpose. In 1859, with the imposition of an urban plan for Hill End, the town grew in a more orderly fashion and by the height of the second, larger rush in 1872, it was the largest inland settlement in the ...
Yalwal is the site of a former gold mining town of the same name situated 29 km (18 mi) west of Nowra at the confluence of the Danjera and Yarramunmun Creeks which then forms Yalwal Creek which flows into the Shoalhaven River in New South Wales, Australia. [2] It is now the site of a City of Shoalhaven managed picnic area and Danjera Dam.
A very productive gold field surrounded the area of Hill End. This was the location of the world's largest piece of gold-bearing material, a specimen of slate and gold weighing 235 kilograms, containing 85 kg (2,720 troy oz), known as Holtermann's Nugget, found by Bernhardt Holtermann in 1872. [14]
The Adelong township, which was first established in 1836, came alive when in 1857 William Willams discovered a gold bearing reef ore on Charcoal Hill. Alluvial mining and panning along the Adelong Creek was followed by mines being staked in the surrounding hills and water and steam powered stamper batteries were located along the creek to ...
The river flows in a meandering course generally east by south, joined by twenty-six tributaries including the Apsley, Chandler, and Dyke rivers and passing through a number of spectacular gorges and waterfalls in Cunnawarra National Park and Oxley Wild Rivers National Park, through heritage-listed mountain village Bellbrook amidst others ...
Wallaga Lake is an estuarine lake in Bega Valley Shire in New South Wales, Australia, [1] the largest lake in southern NSW. [2] It is located between Bermagui to the south and between Tilba Tilba to the north, [1] situated beneath Mount Gulaga, in the traditional lands of the Yuin people. [2]