Adaminaby

Adaminaby is a small town in the Snowy Mountains in New South Wales, Australia, which is 402 km away from Sydney, 140 km from Canberra and 85 km from Cooma. The town is located 1,021 meters above sea level northwest on the Snowy Mountains Highway. It is a historical place which was re-established by the dam of Lake Eucumbene 1957.

Adaminaby is a place which is famous for trout fishing, but it also offers opportunities for horse riding, bushwalking and water sports on the Snowy Mountains Hydro - system and in the winter skiing.

History

In the area of the Snowy Mountains Aboriginal people lived for thousands of years, where they went about their lifestyle and their cultural rituals as hunter-gatherers until about 1865.

Europeans arrived in the 1830s in this area and began to breed sheep and cattle. It is believed that the adventurer and poet Banjo Paterson of a drover of this area to the poem The Man From Snowy River and the poet Barcroft Boake for On the Range was inspired.

As in 1859 in Kiandra gold was discovered, the skiing developed by Norwegian prospector on the Selwyn Snowfields and Adaminaby later became a major ski resort in Australia ..

Today, the area around the town is part of the Kosciuszko National Park and the Mount Jagungal Wilderness Area.

1949 began the construction of the largest hydroelectric power plant of Australia Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme and over 100 buildings were dismantled at the old site and rebuilt.

The Lake Eucumbene and the surrounding rivers are famous for their big trout, in the village there is a 10 -meter monument of a trout.

Adminaby has become known in Australia by the movie The Sundowner with Robert Mitchum and Deborah Kerr, Peter Ustinov.

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