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Snowy Region Visitor Centre

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Snowy Region Visitor Centre
Snowy Region Visitor Centre
Snowy Region Visitor Centre
Snowy Region Visitor Centre
Snowy Region Visitor Centre
Snowy Region Visitor Centre
Snowy Region Visitor Centre
Snowy Region Visitor Centre
Snowy Region Visitor Centre
Snowy Region Visitor Centre
Snowy Region Visitor Centre
Snowy Region Visitor Centre
Snowy Region Visitor Centre
Snowy Region Visitor Centre
Snowy Region Visitor Centre
Snowy Region Visitor Centre
Snowy Region Visitor Centre
Snowy Region Visitor Centre
Snowy Region Visitor Centre
Snowy Region Visitor Centre
Snowy Region Visitor Centre
Snowy Region Visitor Centre
Snowy Region Visitor Centre
Snowy Region Visitor Centre
Phone:
+61 2 6450 5600

Hours:
Sunday8:30am - 5pm
Monday8:30am - 5pm
Tuesday8:30am - 5pm
Wednesday8:30am - 5pm
Thursday8:30am - 5pm
Friday8:30am - 5pm
Saturday8:30am - 5pm


The Snowy Mountains scheme or Snowy scheme is a hydroelectricity and irrigation complex in south-east Australia. The Scheme consists of sixteen major dams; seven power stations; one pumping station; and 225 kilometres of tunnels, pipelines and aqueducts that were constructed between 1949 and 1974. The Scheme was completed under the supervision of Chief Engineer, Sir William Hudson and is the largest engineering project undertaken in Australia.The water of the Snowy River and some of its tributaries, much of which formerly flowed southeast onto the river flats of East Gippsland, and into Bass Strait of the Tasman sea, is captured at high elevations and diverted inland to the Murray and Murrumbidgee Rivers irrigation areas, through two major tunnel systems driven through the Continental Divide of the Snowy Mountains, known in Australia as the Great Dividing Range. The water falls 800 metres and travels through large hydro-electric power stations which generate peak-load power for the Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales and Victoria.In 2016, the Snowy Mountains Scheme was added to the Australian National Heritage List.
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