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The formation of the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service in 1967 saw a bid in the conservation of the state's diversity of natural ecosystems and cultural heritage. Today New South Wales contains more than 16.4 million acres within 870 protected areas, as well as 225 different national parks , each with their own pristine beauty and ...
The State Forests of New South Wales include over 2 million hectares (4.9 million acres) of public land managed by the Forestry Corporation of NSW as state forests on behalf of the NSW Government. [1] As of March 2014, there were over 530 state forests in NSW. [2]
New South Wales. Road routes in New South Wales assist drivers navigating roads in urban, rural, and scenic areas of the state. Today all numbered routes in the state are allocated a letter (M, A, B or D) in addition to a one- or -two digit number, with 'M' routes denoting motorways, 'A' routes denoting routes of national significance, 'B' routes denoting routes of state significance, and 'D ...
The key from a typical cadastral map from the 1890s showed four types of subdivisions; the parish, county, land district and land division. This one is located in the County of Wallace The Crown Lands Act of 1884 further divided New South Wales into three land divisions; Western , Central and Eastern ; as well as Land Boards and Land Districts.
State parks are maintained by the New South Wales Department of Lands and managed by community trust boards. They are: [1] Bellinger Heads State Park, near Coffs Harbour at the mouth of the Bellinger and Kalang Rivers. Belmont State Park, Lake Macquarie (or Belmont Wetlands), 514 ha (1,270 acres) of wetlands and dunes, established as a state ...
Catterick is a rural locality of the Shire of Bridgetown–Greenbushes in the South West region of Western Australia. [2] [3] It is on the traditional land of the Noongar people. [4] [5] Catterick was a siding on the Picton to Northcliffe railway, originally named Yandil until renamed in 1924. [6]
Bells Hill, west of Knights Hill, is the highest point in the range at 803 metres (2,635 ft) AHD on the range's plateau; with a number of other peaks on the escarpment ranging from 300 metres (980 ft) to a maximum of 768 metres (2,520 ft) at Mount Murray southwest of Dapto.
Cumberland County is a county in the State of New South Wales, Australia.Most of the Sydney metropolitan area is located within the County of Cumberland.. The County of Cumberland stretches from Broken Bay to the north, the Hawkesbury River to the north-west, the Nepean River to the west, the Cataract River to the south-west and the northern suburbs of Wollongong to the south.