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188  NE W SOUTH W ALES AND A C T

Exploring the South Coast
and Snowy Mountains

The Great Dividing Range, which runs from the Blue
Mountains (see pp172–5) down to the Snowy Mountains
and into Victoria, divides the region into three areas. There
is the coastal strip, a zone of beautiful beaches, which
starts at Wollongong and runs south for 500 km (310
miles) to Eden, hemmed in by the rising mountain range Waterfall in the beautiful Morton
to its west. On the range lie the Southern Highlands, National Park
Mount Kosciuszko and the Snowy Mountains. West of the
range are the farming plains of the Murrumbidgee River.

HIGHWAY
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HUME
Yass Gunning
Wagga Wagga
Lake
George
Hall
Canberra
Tumut
Queanbeyan
Blowering AUSTRALIAN
Resevoir Kosciuszko CAPITAL Royala
National TERRITORY
Golden inlet at Ben Boyd National Park, Park (ACT) Williamsdale
on the southern tip of New South Wales Bimberi Peak
1913m
Yarrangobilly
Namadgi N
Yarrangobilly National MONARO
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Tumbarumba Caves
Park g
Kiandra n
Getting Around Mount Selwyn HIGHWAY i
A car is essential to do full Lake U T W i d
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justice to this region, with the Eucumbene UNTAINS v
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Kosciuszko
IN
Hume Hwy providing excellent National Park i
SNOWY MOUNTAINS
access to the Southern HWY D
W
WY
Highlands and the western SNOWY COOMA
TA
T
farming towns. Wollongong and Albury MOUNTAINS
the southern beaches are linked Lake Jindabyne
from Sydney to the Victoria Mount Townsend Perisher Jindabyne
2210m
border by the coastal Princes Mount Kosciuszko Dalgety
Hwy. From Canberra, the 2228m Thredbo
Monaro Hwy is the best route Nimmitabel
to the Snowy Mountains. From
Bega to the east or Gundagai S
and Tumut in the west, take the Snowy t
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Sn wy
Snowy Mountains Hwy. A train a
service between Sydney and r e
Canberra stops at the Southern G Bombala
Highlands and Hume Hwy
towns, while the coastal resorts Delegate
are serviced by buses from Rockton
both Sydney and Melbourne.
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