Fossickers Way
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| Start of the street: | Nundle ( NSW ) ( 31 ° 28 ′ S , 151 ° 8 ′ E ) |
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 New England Highway Gwydir Highway Glen Innes ( NSW ) ( 29 ° 44 ′ S , 151 ° 44 ′ E ) |
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| Overall length: | 390 km | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Course of the road
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Map with all coordinates: The Fossickers Way is a main road in the northeast of the Australian state of New South Wales . It connects Nundle in the New England region with the Gwydir Highway in Warialda and Glen Innes and the New England Highway in Tamworth and Glen Innes.
Origin of name
The name Fossickers Way refers to a specific group of towns in northeast New South Wales where large amounts of gold and precious stones were found. Mainly Europeans found these precious metals and minerals from the 1850s onwards. Before that, Aboriginal tribes such as B. the Werawai from the area of Nundle these deposits to material for the production of tools, z. B. axes to win.
The Fossickers Way traverses the western slopes of the New England table country, passing through some of the richest gemstone deposits in the world. There you can find sapphires , zircons , jasper , chrysoprase , rhodonites , crystals and even gold.
In 1851, the gold digger Nathan Burrows found gold in Nundle and immediately told his friends in Tamworth. This is how the gold rush began in this area.
course
From Nundle the road leads north, along the Peel River and along the banks of the Chaffey Reservoir . At Nemingha it meets the New England Highway (N15) / Oxley Highway (R34) and follows it a few kilometers west to Tamworth. There it branches off to the north and leads over the western foothills of the Moonbi Range to Manilla , where it crosses the Namoi River and follows its tributary Manilla River upstream. The Fossickers Way continues north via Barraba and Bingara and crosses the Gwydir River before reaching the Gwydir Highway (R38) at Warialda .
From there, Warialda Road continues north as State Route 95, while Fossickers Way follows the Gwydir Highway via Delungra and Inverell to Glen Innes. He crosses the Macintyre River at Inverell . In Glen Innes, the Fossickers Way ends on the New England Highway (N15), while the Gwydir Highway continues east.
In total, the route is 390 km and a popular alternative route between Sydney and Brisbane .
numbering
- no numbering from Nundle to Tamworth
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from Tamworth to Warialda -
(together with the Gwydir Highway) from Warialda to Glen Innes
Events
There are many events along the Fossickers Way all year round, including: B. the annual Tamworth Country Music Festival in January. The Fossickers Way Treasure Hunt is also an annual event that takes participants through all eight towns on the road.
source
Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . P. 28 + 29