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Fall of the Weatherboard c1874-76

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Fall of the Weatherboard c1874-76

By

John Skinner Prout

Image courtesy of the

State Library of Victoria

[Acc No: H3597]

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Blue Mountains Jamison Creek

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Prout, John Skinner

State Library of Victoria

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Darwin's Walk, Wentworth Falls

Darwin's Walk starts from Wilson Park Wentworth Falls and runs across a boardwalk and bush track through open forest, shrub, and hanging swamps to the national park boundary. It was in the valley at the end of Jamison Creek that Charles Darwin stood in 1836, struggling for words to describe the 'quite novel' scene before him, the 'immense gulf' and the 'absolutely vertical' sandstone cliffs where 'a person standing on the edge and throwing down a stone, can see it strike the trees in the abyss below'.

Rivers and Catchments

Blue Mountains

Part of the Great Dividing Range west of Sydney, reaching a height of 1100 metres. In 1829 the name for the area used by the local Aboriginal people was recorded as being Colomatta .

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Wentworth Falls

Blue Mountains residential suburb. William Cox erected a "weatherboard hut" as a supply depot there in 1815 while building a road over the mountains.

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Jamison Creek

A perennial stream rising in Wentworth Falls Lake about 780m north west of Wentworth Falls Railway Station and flowing generally south and south west for 9kilometres to its confluence with Kedumba River at the southern extremity of Sublime Point Ridge in the Blue Mountains National Park. It flows over Wentworth Falls about 3kilometres below Wentworth Falls Lake.

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