Nandewar Range

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Nandewar Range
Forests of the mountains on the northwest slopes of Mount Kaputar

Forests of the mountains on the northwest slopes of Mount Kaputar

Highest peak Mount Kaputar ( 1510  m )
location New South Wales
Nandewar Range (New South Wales)
Nandewar Range
Coordinates 30 ° 30 ′  S , 150 ° 0 ′  E Coordinates: 30 ° 30 ′  S , 150 ° 0 ′  E
rock Volcanites
surface 800 km²
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The Nandewar Range is a mountainous country located approximately 30 km east of Narrabri in New South Wales , Australia . The mountain range was created by volcanic activity.

location

The Nandewar Range is about 400 km north of Sydney and 210 km west of the Tasman Sea coast .

To the east, the Nandewar Range is part of the Great Dividing Range , which begins south of Uralla and extends over the Northern Tableland of New England , where it is flat and hilly. At the western end the mountainous region becomes mountainous and reaches its greatest height of 1510 meters with Mount Kaputar, a volcano . This mountain is located in Mount Kaputar National Park .

The Nandewar Range is the watershed between the watersheds of Namoi River and Gwydir River , draining large areas. The Macdonald River has its source at Walcha and flows into Warrabah National Park , where it is called the Namoi River, and further into the Manilla River , Peel River and Mooki River . The Horton River flows north into the Gwydir River.

As far as the terrain of the Nandewar Range is flat and hilly, it is used economically for growing grain and as grassland and the higher areas are partially forested. High mountains are sometimes covered with snow in winter.

history

The traditional owners of the area were the Aborigines of Kamilaori . The first European to penetrate this area was John Oxley in 1818. He was followed in 1825 by the botanist Allan Cunningham and after an expedition by Thomas Livingstone Mitchell , European colonization of the area began in 1834.

geology

The mountain range consists of basalt and was formed as a result of volcanic activity 21 to 17 million years ago. In this shield volcanoes formed in the course of time eroded and formed the volcanic region in their Lavaterrassen, lava columns and dikes.

In the mountain area of ​​800 km², basalts, trachytes and rhyolites also occur. The basalts reach a thickness of 800 meters at Bullawa Creek in the direction of Mount Kaputar .

mountains

Mountains in this mountain range are:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ bonzle.com : Nandewar Range , in English, accessed January 12, 2012.
  2. ↑ narrabri.net  ( 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. : History of Narrabri , accessed January 12, 2012.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / narrabri.net  
  3. ↑ environment.nsw.gov.au : Mount Kaputar National Park , in English, accessed January 12, 2012.
  4. ^ Robert Wallace Johnson: Intraplate volcanism in eastern Australia and New Zealand. Cambridge University press, Cambridge, England 1989, ISBN 0-521-38083-9 . (Online on Googlebooks)