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Blue Mountains
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Vinony's link graph records 1,391 inbound references to Blue Mountains, and connects out to Great Dividing Range, Wollemia and Australia.
The entry is geolocated on the map in NSW.
It is catalogued under topics including Australian place articles using Wikidata population values, Blue Mountains (New South Wales) and Climbing areas of Australia.
Vinony links it to 45 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Country
- Australia
- State
- New South Wales
- Lgas
- Blue Mountains City Council Hawkesbury City Council Penrith City Council Wollondilly Shire Council
- Location
- 50 km (31 mi) NW of Sydney CBD
- State electorates
- Blue Mountains Penrith
- Federal divisions
- Macquarie Lindsay Calare
- Total
- 11,400 km (4,400 sq mi)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Population
- 30049
- Area
- 1436
- Elevation
- 1189
- Image
- Jamison Valley, Blue Mountains, Australia - Nov 2008.jpg
- Length
- 96
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- Commons category
- Blue Mountains, New South Wales
- Commons gallery
- Blue Mountains, New South Wales
- native label
- Blue Mountains
- described at URL
- openbeta.io/crag/0fc3d76d-86b3-5b64-b561-54fe982e55f0
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Encyclopedic overview
Aboriginal hand stencils in Red Hands Cave, near Glenbrook Broken china from ruins near Asgard Swamp, where a coal mine was opened in the nineteenth century
The Blue Mountains (Gundungurra/Dharug: Colomatta or Gulumada) are a mountainous region and a mountain range located in New South Wales, Australia. The region is considered to be part of the western outskirts of the Greater Sydney area. The region borders on Sydney's main metropolitan area, its foothills starting about 50 kilometres (31 mi) west of centre of the state capital, close to Penrith. The public's understanding of the extent of the Blue Mountains is varied, as it forms only part of an extensive mountainous area associated with the Great Dividing Range. As defined in 1970, the Blue Mountains region is bounded by the Nepean and Hawkesbury rivers in the east, the Coxs River and Lake Burragorang to the west and south, and the Wolgan and Colo rivers to the north. Geologically, it is situated in the central parts of the Sydney Basin.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Blue Mountains” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.