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Awaiting a helper engine before the Cowan Bank at Hawkesbury River 1940

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John L Buckland
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Buckland, John L

National Library of Australia

Rivers and Catchments

Trains

Cowan

Far northern suburb surrounded by national park. Its name is believed to be an Aboriginal word meaning 'opposite', 'other side' or 'big water'.

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Hawkesbury River (Dyarubbin)

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River that runs for 120 kilometres from the confluence of the Nepean and Grose rivers west of Sydney to Broken Bay north of Sydney. The Darug and Darkinjung people who lived along the river called it Dyarubbin.