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Official opening of the Giant Stairway, Katoomb...

Official opening of the Giant Stairway, Katoomba 1 October 1932

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Echo Point

Situated in Gundungurra and Darug country, Echo Point emerged as a major tourist destination in the 1920s and today attracts around 1.4 million visitors a year. Combining a 'holiday playground' atmosphere with the sublime, Echo Point is a compelling site for thinking about the many different ways of seeing that have shaped the Blue Mountains landscape: Indigenous, Romantic, commercial and environmental.

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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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Echo Point

Point south of Katoomba which juts into the Kedumba Valley. The lookout offers spectacular views of the valley the the Three Sisters.

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Katoomba

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Chief town of the Blue Mountains with a name which means 'falling together of many streams' or 'waters tumble over hill'. It grew after the construction of the western railway from Sydney enabled a prosperous coal and shale mining industry and brought tourists to see the scenic beauty of the area.

Giant Stairway

Stairway of 916 steps leading onto The Three Sisters about 400 metres south east of Echo Point, Katoomba.

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