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Hill or mountain

Type - Hill or mountain
Blue Mountains
Bunkers Hill
Burragurra (Devil's Rock)
Collaroy Plateau
Hat Hill
Lapstone Hill
Mobbs Hill
Mount Banks
Mount Hay
Mount Hunter
Mount Rennie
Mount Yengo
Observatory Hill
Prospect Hill
Richmond Hill
Thornton's Hill
Woolloomooloo Hill
Yondi Mountain (Kolebutba)

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Hill or mountain

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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Bunkers Hill

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High ground at The Rocks, now under Gloucester Walk and the Sirius apartments, named for Eber Bunker, sea captain, who lived there when it was a prestigious address.

Burragurra (Devil's Rock)

Significant Aboriginal engraving site on the Boree track within Yengo National Park. Considered to be one of most important engraving sites in the Sydney-Hawkesbury region because of its planned composition, with the linking of the Ancestral Beings via a long line of pits, the depiction of a nesting emu, and a kangaroo hunt.

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Collaroy Plateau

Sandstone plateau above the northern beaches of Sydney.

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Hat Hill

Hill in Blackheath Plateau about 4.8 kilometres north east of Mount Boyce.

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Lapstone Hill

Hill about 2.5 kilometres west of Emu Plains north east of Glenbrook.

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Mobbs Hill

Small hill and trig station about 4 kilometres north east of Rydalmere railway station.

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Mount Banks

Hill in the Explorers Range about 7.2 kilometres south west of Mount Tomah.

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Mount Hay

Rise in Mount Hay Range about 6.4 kilometres south west of the junction of Carmarthen Brod and Grose River.

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Mount Hunter

Hill 70 kilometres southwest of central Sydney, named for John Hunter.

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Mount Rennie

Small sandy knoll in Moore Park, site of the "Mount Rennie outrage" of 1886. Now part of Moore Park Golf Course.

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Mount Yengo

Tabletop mountain in the Yengo National Park north west of Sydney, between the Hawkesbury River (Dyarubbin) and the lower Hunter Valley, that forms part of the of the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area. The mountain is a remnant of an ancient volcano and is a sacred place to local Aboriginal people and s regarded as the ‘Uluru of the NSW east coast’. 

A gigantic Ancestral Being was said to have stepped on to the mountain over nearby Burragurra or ‘Devil’s Rock’, leaving footprints on the land.  It was a place where many different clans came together for ceremonial business. Dominating the skyline of the Bulga Plateau,  It can be seen from all along the Boree Track on the east, from places on the Putty Road to the west, and from the ridges above Wisemans Ferry (Woolloomoorang) on the Hawkesbury River (Dyarubbin) to the south.

The meaning of 'Yengo' is unknown but the original spelling was 'Yungo', so it possibly derives from the word 'yung' used by Hunter River and Lake Macquarie people meaning ‘there’, and is possibly associated with pointing.  'There', a word directing the gaze over Country towards this sacred place is a powerful acknowledgment of Yengo’s compelling presence.  

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Observatory Hill

Hill at the top of The Rocks, west of Sydney Cove, which is the highest point overlooking Port Jackson. With commanding views both east and west, it was the site of one of Sydney's first windmills from 1796 before being replaced with a fort in 1803. By 1849 an observatory had also been constructed which can still be visited.

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Prospect Hill

Small hill south of Blacktown which affords views of the Cumberland Plain.

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Richmond Hill

Hill on Western Bank of Hawkesbury River about 1.6 kilometres south west of North Richmond named by Governor Arthur Phillip in July 1789 near the termination of his journey by boat up the Hawkesbury River.

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Thornton's Hill

High point on the ridge line at Fairlight.

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Woolloomooloo Hill

Rocky ridge extending inland from modern-day Potts Point, first subdivided in 1828 by Governor Darling and occupied by the colony's most prominent citizens.

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Yondi Mountain (Kolebutba)

Peak in the Higher Macdonald district of the Hawkesbury that has an elevation of about 230m. The Aboriginal name recorded for the mountain in 1829 was Kolebutba.

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