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Cowan Creek, Ku-ring-gai Chase c1900-1910

From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[a116499 / PXE 711/499]

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Cowan Creek
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National Parks and Reserves Rivers and Catchments
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Cowan Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park
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Cowan Creek Hawkesbury River (Dyarubbin)

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Cowan Creek

The area that became Cowan Creek remained undisturbed by white colonists until the 1880s. Soon after, much of the catchment became part of the Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, as it remains.

National Parks and Reserves

Rivers and Catchments

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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Cowan Creek

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Tidal tributary of the Hawkesbury River, which is almost entirely within Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park.

Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park

National park in Sydney's north created in 1894 largely because of the work of Eccleston du Faur.

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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.