Blue Labyrinth (New South Wales)

Blue Labyrinth
Blue Labyrinth
	Blue Labyrinth
Highest point
Coordinates	33°49′S 150°30′E / 33.817°S 150.500°E
Geography
Parent range	Blue Mountains Range

The Blue Labyrinth is an area covering much of the southern part of Blue Mountains National Park in New South Wales, Australia. It spans an area south of the Great Western Highway from Wentworth Falls to Glenbrook, stretching from Kings Tableland in the west to Warragamba Dam and the Nepean River in the east, and the Burragorang Valley to the south.^[1]^[2]

Geographical features

Below are some geographical features of the Blue Labyrinth.^[1]

Creeks and rivers:

Caves and rocks:

Red Hands Cave
Attic Cave
Pisgah Rock

Tracks:

Oaks Fire Trail
Andersons Fire Trail
Murphys Fire Trail
Ingar Fire Trail
St. Helena Ridge Trail
Kings Tableland Road

Rock art sites

The Blue Labyrinth contains many prehistoric Aboriginal rock art sites, many of which are charcoal engravings in rock shelters that depict animals such as swamp wallabies, eastern long-necked turtles, bush rats, and other animals. The best-known Aboriginal rock art site in the Blue Labyrinth is Red Hands Cave.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Cameron, Bruce (2014). A History of the Blue Labyrinth (2nd ed.). Sun Valley, NSW, Australia. ISBN 978-0-9586215-1-9.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ "Blue Labyrinth". Bushwalking NSW. Retrieved 13 December 2023.

[:0-1] Cameron, Bruce (2014). A History of the Blue Labyrinth (2nd ed.). Sun Valley, NSW, Australia. ISBN 978-0-9586215-1-9.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

[2] "Blue Labyrinth". Bushwalking NSW. Retrieved 13 December 2023.

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Towns, suburbs and localities	Bell Berambing Bilpin Blaxland Blackheath Bullaburra Clarence Faulconbridge Glenbrook Hartley Vale Hazelbrook Katoomba Kings Tableland Lapstone Lawson Leura Linden Little Hartley Medlow Bath Megalong Mount Irvine Mount Riverview Mount Tomah Mount Victoria Mount Wilson North Katoomba Shipley Springwood Sun Valley Valley Heights Warrimoo Wentworth Falls Winmalee Woodford Yellow Rock Yosemite
Mountain peaks	Banks Bindo Boyce Hay Irvine Narrow Neck Plateau Kings Tableland Piddington Solitary Trickett Wilson York
Tourist attractions	Blue Mountains walking tracks Coxs River track Evans Lookout Hartley Jenolan Caves Katoomba Scenic World Norman Lindsay Gallery and Museum Perrys Lookdown Red Hands Cave Three Sisters Valley Heights Rail Museum Zig Zag Railway
Valleys	Grose Jamison Megalong Wolgan
Waterfalls	Govetts Leap Kanangra Katoomba Falls Wentworth
History	1813 crossing of the Blue Mountains Clarence Tunnel Glenbrook rail deviations 1892 1913 Glenbrook tunnels 1892 1913 Lapstone Zig Zag Lennox Bridge, Glenbrook Lithgow Zig Zag
National parks	Blue Mountains Blue Gum Forest Blue Gum Swamp Gardens of Stone Kanangra-Boyd Nattai Thirlmere Lakes Wollemi Yengo
Rivers	Bargo Bedford Capertee Colo Coxs Du Faur Erskine Grose Hollanders Jenolan Jooriland Kedumba Kowmung Little (Oberon) Little (Wollondilly) Macdonald Nattai Nepean Tonalli Wingecarribee Wolgan Wollangambe Wollondilly
Schools	Blaxland High Blue Mountains Grammar Springwood High Winmalee High Warrimoo Public
Miscellaneous	Blue Labyrinth Fantastic Aussie Tours Greater Blue Mountains Area (World Heritage Site) Hokesville Hydro Majestic Hotel Blue Mountains Dams Medlow Dam
Disasters	1999 Glenbrook rail accident 2001 Black Christmas / Warragamba bushfires 2013 New South Wales Bushfires
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Geographical features

Rock art sites

See also

References