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Introducing Snowy Mountains
The Snowy Mountains – the Snowies – form part of the Great Dividing Range where it straddles the NSW–Victorian border. Kosciuszko National Park dominates this inland area of NSW, and with it comes a mixture of winding mountain roads, spectacular scenery, and, perhaps unexpectedly in Australia, snow. Small towns that hardly rate a mention in summer become hives of activity in winter, when day-trippers and holidaymakers pass through on their way to live it up in Thredbo and Perisher Blue.
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When the white powder isn’t falling (or being made artificially), the dense bushland, native wildlife, cascading waters and limestone caves attract just as many outdoor and adventure types as they do the kind of folk who just want to get away from it all. And there’s plenty of room for both!
The upper waters of the Murray River form both the state and national-park boundaries in the southwest. The Snowy River, made famous by Banjo Paterson’s poem The Man from Snowy River and the film based on it, rises just below the summit of Mt Kosciuszko. The Murrumbidgee River also rises in the national park.
Last updated: Feb 17, 2009
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