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Cave Attractions In Yarramundi

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Yarramundi was an Indigenous Australian called by Europeans the chief of the Richmond Tribe or Tribes. He was a member of the Boorooberongal clan of the Darug people, and was a garadyi or doctor.Yarramundi and his father Gombeeree met Governor Arthur Phillip on 14 April 1791, and this meeting is described by Watkin Tench in his A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson, published in 1793. Yarramundi's daughter, Maria was the first Aboriginal child to be placed in the Native Institute at Parramatta, where she won the Yearly state Examinations ahead of 100 white children. On 26 January 1824 she married convict Robert Lock. It was the first leg...
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  • 1. Jenolan Caves Jenolan Caves
    The Jenolan Caves are limestone caves located within the Jenolan Karst Conservation Reserve in the Central Tablelands region, west of the Blue Mountains, in New South Wales, in eastern Australia. The caves and 3,083-hectare reserve are situated approximately 175 kilometres west of Sydney, 20 kilometres east of Oberon and 30 kilometres west of Katoomba. The caves are the most visited of several similar groups in the limestone caves of the country, and the most ancient discovered open caves in the world. They include numerous Silurian marine fossils and the calcite formations, sometimes pure white, are noted for their beauty. The cave network follows the course of a subterranean section of the Jenolan River. It has more than 40 kilometres of multi-level passages and over 300 entrances. The c...
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