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Koala engraving at Westleigh, now destroyed c1970

Koala engraving at Westleigh, now destroyed c1970

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[Koala rock engraving, Westleigh c1970]

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Hawkins, Ralph

Local historian and genealogist

Hornsby Shire Library

McGarvie’s list and Aboriginal Dyarubbin

This essay follows on from Introducing the Dyarubbin Project: Aboriginal history, culture and places on the Hawkesbury River, New South Wales

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Aboriginal

Visual Arts

Westleigh

North-western residential suburb surrounded on three sides by bushland. Opened for residential development in the 1960s, it is named for its location west of Thornleigh.

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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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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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