The Great Dividing Range

Aboriginal word agricultural alpine atmosphere attractive Australia Bathurst beautiful Blue Mountains Brisbane buildings built bushrangers cattle caves Charters Towers coach coal coast coastal Cobb & Co colony colourful Cooma countryside Creek crops Cunningham dairy Darling Downs discovered discovery district Dividing Range early settlers Edmund Kennedy established expedition explorer feature fertile foothills Gippsland gold rush goldfields goldmining gorges Grampians grazing hectares highlands Highway hills homestead Hume Hunter Valley important interesting islands kilometres known Lake Lake Hume land Leichhardt located lush Macquarie magnificent major massive metres miners mining Mittagong Mount Murray River National Park nearby northern numerous Oxley pastures peaks plains Port produced prominent Queensland railway region ridge River road rock rugged rural industries scenery settlement sheep Snowy Mountains soil South Wales southern spectacular station superb surrounding Sydney tablelands Thomas Mitchell tourist town township trees undulating Victoria village western slopes