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unusual facts about Blue Mountains



Bullaburra, New South Wales

It is one of the towns that stretch along the route of the Main Western railway line and Great Western Highway which pass over the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney.

Caddie, the Story of a Barmaid

They move to railway camps at Glenbrook in the Blue Mountains where her drunken father works as a railway fettler.

Florence James

From 1945 to 1947 she, her daughters, Dymphna Cusack and her daughter shared a rented cottage 'Pinegrove' at Hazelbrook in the Blue Mountains.

Geoffrey Eagar

He also had a house in the Blue Mountains, opposite Eagar's Platform, now called Valley Heights railway station.

Highways in Australia

By the end of his term in 1822 the colony had a network of three major roads, with the Great Western Road as the most important link, traversing the Blue Mountains from Sydney to Bathurst.

History of rail in Oregon

William Williams Chapman, Surveyor General of Oregon from 1857 to 1861, proposed a railroad along the Oregon Trail from Portland, over the Blue Mountains, along the Snake River, then south to the transcontinental railroad at Salt Lake.

Hygrocybe aurantipes

Known only from Lane Cove National Park in Sydney's suburban Lower North Shore, Hazelbrook and Mount Wilson in the Blue Mountains, it has been designated as vulnerable as defined by the NSW Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995, by the New South Wales Government.

Jean Isherwood

The images represent the diversity of the Australian landscape and include "the filmy veil of greenness' seen from Isherwood's own window, a flood on the Darling River, a bushfire in the Blue Mountains and a forest of ringbarked trees near Armidale.

Jeremy II

On 25 June 1720, Nicholas Lawes, the governor of Jamaica signed a formal agreement with a Miskito king named Jeremy to provide 50 men to track down Maroons (former enslaved Africans who had escaped bondage) in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica.

José Guillermo Hay

Hay owned and developed large landholdings around Lawson in the Blue Mountains during the 1880s and 1890s; a number of properties and features there are named in his honour.

Julie McGregor

After living in Paddington, New South Wales for most of her life, in 2007 McGregor moved to the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney.

Malheur Reservation

When U. S. Army units under the command of General Oliver O. Howard began moving towards their positions, the united Paiutes and Bannocks decided to flee into the Blue Mountains to the north of the Harney Basin.

Max Cullen

Cullen was born in Wellington, New South Wales in 1940, but when he was one year old his family moved to Lawson in the Blue Mountains.

Miranda, New South Wales

Early Australian explorer Gregory Blaxland was promised a significant parcel of land in the area as a reward for discovering a passage through the Blue Mountains.

Mount Riverview, New South Wales

Mount Riverview borders the townships/suburbs of Warrimoo, Blaxland, Emu Heights and Yellow Rock.

MyZone

It covers transport on the government owned Sydney Buses, Sydney Ferries and Sydney Trains networks as well as private buses throughout the Sydney metropolitan area and in the adjoining regions of Newcastle, Wollongong and the Blue Mountains.

New South Wales 46 class locomotive

The locomotives were purchased as part of the electrification of the Main Western line over the Blue Mountains from Penrith to Bowenfels.

Peter Vernon's Silence

The film featured location shooting in and around Moss Vale, Mount Kosciuszko, Kiandra, Adaminaby, Leura and the Blue Mountains.

Rhizanthella slateri

In NSW, it is currently only known from fewer than 10 locations, including near Bulahdelah, the Watagan Mountains, the Blue Mountains, Wisemans Ferry area, Agnes Banks and near Nowra.

Stevie Plunder

On 26 January (Australia Day), 1996, exactly four years since The Whitlams were formed, and as their single I Make Hamburgers was breaking into the Triple J Hottest 100 chart, Stevie Plunder was found dead at the bottom of Wentworth Falls in the Blue Mountains, apparently a suicide.

The Bells Line

The Bells Line is the name of the road that leads from Richmond in Sydney's west through the Blue Mountains, the route Nash would take going home.

The Lithgow Plot

The Lithgow Plot was an assassination attempt of Queen Elizabeth II on 29 April 1970 at Lithgow, New South Wales, Australia in the Blue Mountains while she was on a state visit.


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Aurein

This family of antibacterial peptides are secreted from the granular dorsal glands of Litoria aurea (Green and golden bell frog), Litoria raniformis (Southern bell frog), Litoria citropa (Australian blue mountains tree frog) and frogs from genus Uperoleia.

Bells Line of Road

It then proceeds to climb onto the Bell Range of the Blue Mountains, passing through Kurrajong Heights.

Bullaburra, New South Wales

The Railway Department had agreed to supply electricity to the Blue Mountains Shire Council from the power station at Lithgow and a transmission line was put through from Blackheath to Lawson with a track to provide maintenance access.

Great Western Highway

In 1813, acting on the instructions of NSW Governor Lachlan Macquarie, Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth led an 1813 expedition that travelled west from Emu Plains and, by staying to the ridges, were able to confirm the existence of a passable route directly west from Sydney across the Blue Mountains.

Greater Blue Mountains Area

The greater Blue Mountains region has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because it supports a high proportion of the global populations of the range-restricted Rockwarbler as well as populations of Flame Robins, Diamond Firetails and Pilotbirds.

The area is called "Blue Mountains" based on the fact that when atmospheric temperature rise, the essential oil of various Eucalyptus species evaporates and disperse in the air, then visible blue spectrum of sunlight propagates more than other colours.

Hadronyche versuta

Hadronyche versuta, the Blue Mountains funnel-web spider, is a venomous mygalomorph spider found in central New South Wales.

A member of the genus Hadronyche, the Blue Mountains funnelweb was first described in 1914, by William Joseph Rainbow in the genus Atrax, having been collected from the vicinity of the Jenolan Caves.

Monument Rocks

Monument Rock Wilderness, a wilderness area within the Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon.

Mount Wilson, New South Wales

Historical features that can still be seen include St George's Church, which was built by the children of Henry Marcus Clark and consecrated in 1916; and the house Withycombe, in The Avenue, which was built by George Henry Cox, a grandson of William Cox, who built the first road over the Blue Mountains.

Mountain devil

Lambertia formosa, a proteaceous shrub of the Sydney and Blue Mountains region in Australia

Narrow Neck

Narrow Neck Plateau, in the Blue Mountains, near Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia

New South Wales U set

The first appearance took place on 22 June 1957 when they were hauled by electric locomotive 4612 as part of the first train to travel on the newly-electrified Blue Mountains line.

Red-bellied black snake

It can be found in the urban forest, woodland, plains and bushland areas of the Blue Mountains, Canberra, Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Cairns and Adelaide.

Springwood

Springwood, New South Wales, a suburb in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, Australia

Wentworth Falls, New South Wales

In July 1867, the first railway journey to the Blue Mountains left Penrith and traveled through to Weatherboard Station, where the train terminated.