Arthur Phillip, the first governor of New South Wales, first glimpsed the extent of the Blue Mountains from a ridge at Castle Hill. He named them the Carmarthen Hills, "some forty to sixty miles distant..." and he reckoned that the ground was "most suitable for government stock".
The first documented use of the name Blue Mountains appears in Captain John Hunter's account of Phillip's 1789 expedition up the Hawkesbury River. Describing the events of about 5 July, Hunter wrote: "We frequently, in some of the reaches which we passed through this day, saw very near us the hills, which we suppose as seen from Port Jackson, and called by the governor the Blue Mountains."
During the nineteenth century the name was commonly applied to the portion of the Great Dividing Range from about Goulburn in the south to the Hunter Valley in the north, but in time it came to be associated with a more limited area.
Route Map - this link will open a Google Map with all waypoints for this tentative route. You can use this map to explore alternative routes and side adventures. Don't worry about "breaking" this map. It has been saved and is restored whenever the link is used.
Places
- Katoomba
- Oberon
- Sofala/Hill End
- Rylstone
- Putty
Route Distance: 1,000 km
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Proposed date commencing: TBA
Proposed date concluding: TBA
Participants:
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- Roger and Helen
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Overlapping
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