Moonbi Range
| Moonbi Range | ||
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| Highest peak | Black Jack Mountain ( 1300 m ) | |
| location | New South Wales | |
| part of | Great dividing range | |
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| Coordinates | 30 ° 58 ′ S , 151 ° 8 ′ E | |
The Moonbi Range , in the so-called Northern Tableland of New South Wales in Australia , is a mountain range in the Great Dividing Range . The mountain range reaches heights of 500 to just over 1300 meters. The highest mountain is Black Jack Mountain , which the Aborigines call Bullimballa Mountain , reaches a height of 1321 meters.
location
The Moonbi Range is about 20 kilometers northeast of the town of Tamworth . The mountain range is drained by the Cockburn River in the south and the Macdonald River in the north, both of which flow into the Namoi River . The Oxley Highway runs over the Moonbi Range and meets the New England Highway (National Road 15) at Bendemeer . The street name Oxley goes back to the explorer John Oxley , who was one of the first Europeans to penetrate the interior of New South Wales . Both highways run on the same road for about 40 km before they split again at Tamworth.
Surname
The mountain range was a cultural place for the Aboriginal tribes of the Kamilaroi and the neighboring Anwan . The name Moonbi goes back to the Kamilaroi Aborigines.
Moonbi Pass
The Moonbi Range overcomes a mountain pass. In 1832 a road from the villages of Moonbi to Bendemeer was blasted into the rocks with dynamite so that the European settlers could further colonize the inland of Australia. The original path was partially secured and could only be overcome with carts of oxen. It was not until 1865 that a road could be built, although only partially single lane could be used. In the early 1870s it was decided to remove the most dangerous parts of the pass. In 1937 the route was paved. It was not until 1975 that a 5 kilometer long section of the pass road was laid out in two lanes with emergency stop bays.
Entrance into culture
Banjo Patersson , the author of Waltzing Mathilda , the unofficial national anthem of Australia, describes the Moonbi Range as a wall in the sense of a barrier in his poem Over the Range .
Buddy Williams (1918–1986), a pioneer of Australian country music, dedicated The Mighty Moonbi Range to the Moonbi Mountains, a song that deals with man, nature and technology, in which man ultimately succumbs.
List of the highest mountains
- Black Jack Mountain, 1323 m
- Mount Gulligal, 1243 m
- The Mountain, 1120 m
Tourist information
There is a campsite each in the villages of Bendemeer and between Moonbi and Kootingal . Climbing athletes often visit the Moonbi Range.
Individual evidence
- ^ Black Jack Mountain , on Geographical Names Register Exact. Retrieved July 20, 2018
- ↑ New Road Through Rugged Moonbi Ranges Fourth Route For Section Of The New England Highway ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , ed. v. Department of Main Roads, March 1978. Retrieved July 12, 2018
- ↑ Over the Range , on wallisandmatilda.com.au. Retrieved June 12, 2018
