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The Snowy Mountains Scheme - Australia's Culture PortalImage courtesy of the Snowy Hydro. The Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme is by far the largest engineering project ever undertaken in Australia. What is the Snowy Mountains Scheme? ...
Ernest Revell, Three Sisters, Blue Mountains, New South Wales, c. Sir Thomas Mitchell (1792-1855), Part of New South Wales from the summit of Jellore, 1839, lithograph print. In March 1812, the Colonial Surveyor George William Evans was sent to explore ...
Eventually, streams catch more water or join other streams to form a river. The Murray River and its main tributary, the Darling River, are the two main rivers in the Murray-Darling River Basin. The Snowy River is probably Australia's most famous river,...
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NMA Collections Search - Commemorative bronze topographic model of the Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Scheme, presented to Ben Chifley at the scheme's inauguration (website National Museum of Australia (NMA) )Description>Bronze topographic model of the Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Scheme, mounted on a brown wooden plinth with four black rubber feet. "SNOWY MOUNTAINS / HYDRO ELECTRIC / DEVELOPMENT" is engraved in an integral shelf in the bronze component in ...
"A SERVICE OF THANKSGIVING / AND REUNION / ON THE OCCASION OF / THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY / OF THE COMMENCEMENT OF / THE SNOWY MOUNTAINS SCHEME / ST PAULS COOMA / 14 OCTOBER 1999 / 7.30PM" is printed on the front cover. Collection statement of significanceThe...
Image not availableDigital images are not yet available for all objects. Collection statement of significanceThe Snowy Scheme - Bill Fegan Collection consists of several objects relating to Bill's work in 1967 on the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Scheme...
Description>A two volume information manual, with plans, for use of Snowy Scheme personnel during the Queen's tour of the Snowy Scheme in 1963. Collection statement of significanceThe Snowy Scheme - Keith Montague Collection consists of the information m...
Image courtesy of the Snowy Hydro. The Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme is by far the largest engineering project ever undertaken in Australia. What is the Snowy Mountains Scheme? ...
Construction of the Eucumbene-Tumut tunnel,Snowy Mountains Scheme, 1958. The-Snowy-Mountains-Scheme - Listen to Professor Andrew Jakubowicz discuss the events and issues surrounding this topic. Publicity: Building the Snowy Scheme - A multi-cultural expe...
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australianscreen is produced by the National Film and Sound Archive. You may save, copy, print, distribute or download materials for your own personal use or for non-commercial educational purposes. The National Film and Sound Archive,Äôs permission mus...
Power demands in eastern Australia fluctuate daily, and Snowy Hydro Limited is producing power during those peak demands. As a result, water flows in some rivers can change dramatically, especially for the Snowy, Tumut and Murrumbidgee Rivers. Copyright...
The Snowy Mountains Scheme has one pumping station at Jindabyne and a pump storage facility at Tumut 3 Power Station. Jindabyne Pumping Station pumps water from Lake Jindabyne through the Jindabyne-Island Bend Tunnel to the Snowy-Geehi Tunnel at Island B...
The Snowy Mountains Scheme - tough and unremitting as the work was - provided their introduction to Australian working life and it stands as a monument to their endeavour. During construction, seven regional townships and over 100 temporary camps were est...
The Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Scheme is one of the most complex integrated water and hydro-electric power schemes in the world. The Scheme collects and stores the water that would normally flow east to the coast and diverts it through trans-mountain...
The ingenuity displayed in building the power stations, high dams and drilling tunnels through mountains was, and still is, a wonder to many Australians. Tumut 3 Power Station was the first major pump-storage scheme in Australia. Through developing innov...
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