Adaminaby

Adaminaby
Adaminaby Main Street
State :  Australia State : New South Wales Founded : 1885
Coordinates : 35 ° 59 ′  S , 148 ° 46 ′  E Coordinates: 35 ° 59 ′  S , 148 ° 46 ′  E Height : 1021  m Area : 2.0  km²
Residents : 210 (2016) Population density : 105 inhabitants per km²
Time zone : ACST (UTC + 9: 30) Telephone code : (+61) 2 Postal code : 2629 LGA : Snowy River Shire
Adaminaby

Adaminaby is a small town in the Snowy Mountains , New South Wales , Australia , 402 km from Sydney , 140 km from Canberra and 85 km from Cooma . The place is located at 1,021 meters above sea level northwest on the Snowy Mountains Highway . It is a historic site that was re-established by the construction of the Lake Eucumbene dam in 1957.

Adaminaby is a place known for trout fishing. But it also offers opportunities for equestrian sports, bush hiking and water sports on the Snowy Mountains system and, in winter, skiing.

history

The ten-meter monument to a trout in Adaminaby

The Aborigines lived in the area of ​​the Snowy Mountains for millennia, where they followed their habits and cultural rituals as hunters and gatherers until around 1865.

Europeans came to this area in the 1830s and began raising sheep and cattle. It is believed that the adventurer and poet Banjo Paterson was inspired by a drover in the area for the poem The Man From Snowy River, and the poet Barcroft Boake for On the Range .

When gold was found in Kiandra in 1859, Norwegian gold prospectors developed skiing on the Selwyn Snowfields . Adaminaby later became a major ski resort in Australia.

Today the area around the place is part of the Kosciuszko National Park and the Mount Jagungal Wilderness Area .

In 1949 construction began on Australia's largest hydroelectric power plant, the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme , and over 100 buildings were dismantled and rebuilt on the old site.

Lake Eucumbene and the rivers that surround it are famous for their large trout. In the center of the village there is a 10 meter monument of a trout.

Adaminaby is also best known in Australia through the film The Sundowner with Robert Mitchum , Peter Ustinov and Deborah Kerr .

Web links

Commons : Adaminaby, New South Wales  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Adaminaby website ( Memento from April 14, 2001 in the Internet Archive )
• Adaminby on smh.com.au

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Australian Bureau of Statistics : Adaminaby (L) ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved January 26, 2020.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Information on snowymountains.com.au , accessed October 30, 2013
3. ↑ Information on kiandrahistory.net , accessed October 30, 2013
4. ^ History of Adaminaby - A moving story , accessed October 30, 2013
5. ^ The Man From Snowy River , accessed October 30, 2013
6. ^ On the Range , accessed October 30, 2013
7. ↑ Information from selwysnow , accessed on October 30, 2013
8. ↑ Information on gzdoc.com ( memento of September 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 30, 2013