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Kiandra is an abandoned gold mining town and the birthplace of Australian skiing. The town is situated in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales, Australia, in the Snowy Monaro Regional Council inside the Kosciuszko National Park. Its name is a corruption of Aboriginal 'Gianderra' for 'sharp stones for knives'.
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Resorts: Charlotte Pass; Perisher Blue. Blue Cow; Guthega; Perisher Valley; Smiggin Holes; Selwyn snowfields. Cabramurra (private ski tows) Kiandra (abandoned mining town, birthplace of Australian skiing) Thredbo; Snow country: Kosciuszko National Park. The Main Range; Mount Jagungal
Hill End in New South Wales was never fully abandoned and is now a popular tourist town. Iron Baron is a former mining town in South Australia. Jay Creek in the Northern Territory was a government settlement for Indigenous Australians in the 1920s and 30s. Joadja is a former mining town in New South Wales that had become abandoned by 1911.
Yerranderie was formerly a silver mining town of 2000 people, but the mining industry collapsed in 1927, and the town was cut off from direct access from Sydney by the establishment of the Warragamba Dam and Lake Burragorang in 1959. Country singer Frank Ifield immortalised the event with his song “Yerranderie”. The Yerranderie Post Office ...
C. Cadia, New South Wales; Caloola; Canbelego; Cangai; Canowindra; Captains Flat; Carcoar, New South Wales; Catherine Hill Bay, New South Wales; Cessnock, New South Wales
Gilgunnia is a locality and ghost town in the Orana region of New South Wales, Australia, within the Parish of South Peak in Blaxland County and Cobar Shire. [2] [3] It was once a settlement associated with gold mining, but in 2016 its population was zero. [4] The nearest settlements are Mount Hope (51 km south) and Nymagee (73 km north-east).
The Southern Highlands, also locally referred to as the Highlands, is a geographical region and district in New South Wales, Australia and is 110 km south-west of Sydney. The region comprises the local government area of the Wingecarribee Shire and also towns of the Mulwaree Shire. The region is also considered a wine region.