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Tiered rockpools in the Maroota area October 2020

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Tiered rockpools in the Maroota area October 2020

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The Dyarubbin Project: Aboriginal history, culture and places on the Hawkesbury River

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Rivers and Catchments Water

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Hawkesbury River (Dyarubbin)

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Hawkesbury district Maroota Maroota Forest

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The Dyarubbin Project: Aboriginal history, culture and places on the Hawkesbury River

The winner of the State Library of NSW Coral Thomas Fellowship in 2018-19 was a collaborative project, The Real Secret River: Dyarubbin. Based on a list of Aboriginal words recorded along Dyarubbin (the Hawkesbury River) in the 1820s by Reverend John McGarvie that is held in the Mitchell LIbrary, winning the Fellowship allowed the team behind the project to work on the recovery, recognition and revitalisation of the river's Darug and Darkinjung history, culture and Language.

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Rivers and Catchments

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.

Hawkesbury district

Area surrounding the Hawkesbury River to Sydney's north and north-west, which was important in early colonial agriculture and the site of the early towns of Richmond and Windsor.

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Maroota

Far north-western rural suburb surrounded by state forest, south of Wisemans Ferry.

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Maroota Forest

Reserve near Berowra of 4,250 hectares.

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