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3 unusual facts about Belanglo State Forest


Belanglo State Forest

The Belanglo State Forest is located south of Berrima in the Southern Highlands, three kilometres west of the Hume Highway between Sydney and Canberra.

Fiona Lowry

The $100,000 portrait prize for her painting What I Assume You Shall Assume, was a naked self-portrait set in the Belanglo State Forest a scene of menace as the site of the backpacker murders.

Macarthur Astronomical Society

These are held regularly at two locations: the Dudley Chesham Sports ground at The Oaks, owned by Wollondilly Council; and a property at Belanglo Forest, owned by International House, University of Sydney, for the purpose of telescopic observing and astro-imaging.



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Backpacker murders

On 19 September 1992, a group of orienteers discovered a decaying corpse while orienteering in the Belanglo State Forest.