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Wombat is a town in South West Slopes region of New South Wales, Australia. It is situated on the Olympic Highway , 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) south-west of the regional centre of Young . It is in the local government area of Hilltops Council .
The name "wombat" comes from the now nearly extinct Dharug language spoken by the aboriginal Dharug people, who originally inhabited the Sydney area. [3] It was first recorded in January 1798, when John Price and James Wilson, a white man who had adopted aboriginal ways, visited the area of what is now Bargo, New South Wales.
Wombeyan Caves are located on the traditional lands of the Burra Burra clan of the Gandangara people [2] in the area covered by the Pejar Local Aboriginal Land Council. . Archaeologists have not found evidence of Indigenous occupation of the caves, but flakes and cores from Indigenous tool making, dating from 6,000 to 14,000 years ago, have been found across the Wombeyan Karst Conservation R
Its historical range previously extended across New South Wales, Victoria, and Queensland, and as recently as 100 years ago it was considered as having become extinct, but in the 1930s a population of about 30 individuals was discovered located in one place, a 3 km 2 (1.2 sq mi) range within the 32 km 2 (12 sq mi) Epping Forest National Park in ...
Diprotodon is a marsupial in the order Diprotodontia, [d] suborder Vombatiformes (wombats and koalas), and infraorder Vombatomorphia (wombats and allies). It is unclear how different groups of vombatiformes are related to each other because the most-completely known members—living or extinct—are exceptionally derived (highly specialised forms that are quite different from their last common ...
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar ... New South Wales: ... Phascolarctos cinereus [5] South Australia: Southern hairy-nosed wombat: Lasiorhinus latifrons [6 ...
Lasiorhinus is the genus containing the two extant hairy-nosed wombats, which are found in Australia. The southern hairy-nosed wombat is found in some of the semiarid to arid regions belt from New South Wales southwest to the South Australia-Western Australia border.
Vombatus hacketti, Hackett's wombat, is an extinct species of wombat that lived in Southwest Australia during the Late Pleistocene. It survived until very recently, going extinct between 10,000 and 20,000 BP.