Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve

The Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve (English Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve ) is a nature reserve in the Australian Capital Territory, south-west of the Australian capital Canberra. It is 54.5 km ², directly bordering the Namadgi National Park and consists of a wide valley, the Tidbinbilla Mountain and the Gibraltar hills. The slopes at the edges of the valley are steep and relatively untouched.

Tidbinbilla is a corruption of the Aboriginal word jedbinbilla; the term means " where the boys become men ." Among the most important archaeological sites in the reserve Birriagi - rock roof with the oldest so far discovered traces of settlement Aboriginal heard in the area of the Australian Capital Territory. The Bogong Rocks is the oldest verifiable deposit in addition to a population of Bogong moths (which were an important food source for the natives ). At Mount Tidbinbilla long time initiation rituals seem to have been completed.

The colonization by Europeans put an end of the 19th century. Nile Desperandum at Hurdle Creek is an existing earth house of four rooms; in the immediate vicinity are the remains of a eucalyptus distillery. The Rock Valley Homestead is a built in 1895 homestead that has been badly damaged during the bushfires in January 2003.

1936 an area of approximately 8.10 km ² was excreted as a nature reserve, and in 1939 founded the Institute for Anatomy a koala enclosure one. The government increased in 1962, the area to a size of 36.29 km ², later followed by several extensions. Was officially declared a nature reserve in the area in 1971.

Through the Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve to attract numerous hiking trails that trips of 30 minutes to 6 hours duration are possible. The reserve is a natural habitat for kangaroos, wallabies, platypus, koalas, Lyrebird, emus and other wildlife. 99 % of the area of the reserve was devastated on January 18, 2003, devastating bushfires.

Immediately on the edge of the Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve is the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex, which is part of the Deep Space Network NASA.