The Blue Mountains are a mountainous region and a mountain range located in New South Wales, Australia. The region is considered to be part of the western outskirts of the Greater Sydney area. The reg
The Three Sisters sandstone rock formation, one of the region's best-known attractions
The characteristic blue haze, as seen in the Jamison Valley
Aboriginal hand stencils in Red Hands Cave, near Glenbrook
Broken china from ruins near Asgard Swamp, where a coal mine was opened in the nineteenth century
Great Dividing Range
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The Great Dividing Range, also known as the East Australian Cordillera or the Eastern Highlands, is a cordillera system in eastern Australia consisting of an expansive collection of mountain ranges, p
Blue Mountains (New South Wales)
…The public's understanding of the extent of the Blue Mountains is varied, as it forms only part of an extensive mountainous area associated with the Great Dividing Range. As defined in 1970, the Blue Mountains region is bounded by the Nepean and Hawkesbury rivers in the east, the Coxs River and Lake Burragorang to the…
Great Dividing Range
The Monaro Plains (right) are drier than the verdant western upslopes (left) as they lie in a rain shadow. (View of the Snowy Mountains region)
Great Dividing Range sign on the Kings Highway between Braidwood and Bungendore, New South Wales
Mt Feathertop viewed from Smoko