Guy Fawkes River
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The Guy Fawkes River is a river in northern New South Wales, Australia that runs from the south to north along the valley of the Demon Fault Line in the Guy Fawkes River National Park.[1]
The river rises in the Snowy Range, an eastern spur of the Great Dividing Range, near the village of Ebor, New South Wales. The river also has tributaries near Round Mountain, the highest peak of the Northern Tablelands region. The river spills over Ebor Falls and enters a deep valley, flowing generally northward and eventually joining the Clarence River.
The river is named after Guy Fawkes. The expedition led by John Oxley were the first Europeans to visit the river,[citation needed] and apparently camped there on Guy Fawkes Day, 1821.
The Bicentennial National Trail runs along the western side of Guy Fawkes River on what is a Travelling Stock Route.[2]
The largest of the Grevillea genus, Southern Silky Oak (Grevillea robusta) is distributed in the Guy Fawkes River area, which is the southern limit of its natural environment. It has attractive orange-yellow flowers and may reach up to 35 metres and diameters in excess of one metre.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Guy Fawkes River National Park information leaflet, NSW NPWS, 2004
- ^ NSW Wilderness Index Retrieved on 8 December 2008
- ^ A Word fromWoollybutt Retrieved on 8 December 2008
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