New South Wales

Tweed River

By Miniplum (Dowload original document with photos.)
The Tweed River is a short river that runs down tweed heads which then enters the sea.
The Tweed River area has a fine subtropical climate, high rainfall and fertile volcanic soils. It was originally covered by rainforest, much of which has been cleared. Some remains in several national parks and reserves. The lowlands along the river are used for farming sugar cane and other crops.
The Tweed River was named after the river Tweed which forms a border between Queensland and New South Wales.

The river lies a few kilometers on the New South Wales side of the border, the expression "North of the Tweed" is used to refer to the people and places of Queensland.

Sydney- New South Wales

By Chlo Mo (Dowload original document with photos.)

Sydney is the capital of NSW. In Sydney there are two places that are the most popular tourist location they are the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Sydney Opera House.

Sydney Harbour Bridge

The Sydney Harbour Bridge is one of the most famous landmarks, it was finished in1932.
The Sydney Harbour also known as the coat hanger took 8 years to build. The construction of the bridge began in December 1926.

The bridge is 39 feet deep and 39 meters/118 feet long. The arch of the bridge was started in November 1929.
The Sydney Harbour Bridge was officially opened on the 19th of March 1932.

The bridge was built by 1400 workers, 16 of them died of accidents in the construction. Painting the bridge became an endless task. Science shows that 50 years after people are extinct the bridge will collapse.

The pylon lookout is recommended to all visitors to Sydney to see how the bridge was exactly made. Entry to the pylon is from the penetration walkway on the Harbour Bridge. You can get to the walkway via, the stairs in Cumberland street, The rocks, or from near Milsons point station on the north side.

Sydney Opera House
The Sydney opera house is one of the most famous stages in the world.

The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts center it is located on Bennelong point. It was built by Danish architect Jorn Utzon. Jorn Utzon won the Pritzker prize, which is an award for the architects highest honor.

People think that the Sydney opera house is one of the greatest master pieces. This is what some one said There is no doubt that the Sydney opera house is one o the great iconic buildings of the 20th century, an image of great beauty that has become known throughout the world-a symbol for not only a city but a whole country and continent.

New South Wales History

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The tallest mountain in New South Wales and Australia is Mount Kosciusko. A Polish man called Tadeusz Andrdzej found Mount Kosciusko. Mount Kosciusko is in southern New South Wales, close to the Victorian border in the Australian Alps. Mount Kosciusko was formed by two plates which were pushed together in the ground. It gradually formed its shape and size into Mount Kosciusko.

Prior to the arrival of Captain James Cook in 1770, New South Wales was inhabited by Indigenous Australians for at least 40,000 years. The First Fleet, comprising 11 ships and around 1,350 people, was dispatched to the unknown continent - the only information about New South Wales was that from Cook's voyage of 1770. From these records it was decided the first settlement would be at Botany Bay, and a second settlement would be established at Norfolk Island to provide wood for ships and masts.

However, on arrival at Botany Bay on 18 January 1788,
Captain Phillip decided the site was not suitable and resolved to look for another. He decided upon Port Jackson, the site of modern day Sydney, and the people of the First Fleet established Australia's first settlement on 26 January. The Fleet consisted mainly of convicts with officers to guard them. Few people in the Fleet had any experience of cultivating the land and this, combined with poor soil in the area, lead to severe food shortages. The fledgling colony eagerly awaited
on the arrival of the Second Fleet in 1790.

By 1820, Australia was beginning to look prosperous and sentiments of Australian patriotism were being expressed at gatherings of ex-convicts. The sense of belonging to a new nation must have been encouraged in 1817 when Governor Macquarie recommended the adoption of the name 'Australia' for the entire continent instead of New Holland. By 1847 the convict population of Sydney accounted for only 3.2 percent of the total population.

The Great Dividing Range (a.k.a Eastern Highlands) is Australia's only substantial mountain range. It stretches from the north eastern tip of Queensland, running the entire length of the eastern coastline through New South Wales, then into Victoria and turning west before finally fading into the endless central plain at the Grampians in western Victoria.