Delegate (Delegate)
Delegate is a small town in New South Wales, Australia in Snowy Monaro Regional Council, 523 km south of the state capital, Sydney.
The township is situated on the Delegate River, just a few kilometres north of the state border between New South Wales and Victoria. At the, Delegate had a population of 351 people.
The place name, Delegate, may have derived from an Aboriginal word meaning "high mountains". The first village began in 1852 and was sited at Hayden's Bog, on the property now called "Bendolba". Mount Delegate, commonly known in the local area as "Delegate Hill", is situated across the border in Victoria, and stands at approximately 1325 m above sea level. It is the only single mountain in the Great Divide and of an unusual shape. Because of its height, Mount Delegate now has several telecommunication towers serving both NSW & Victoria.
The township is situated on the Delegate River, just a few kilometres north of the state border between New South Wales and Victoria. At the, Delegate had a population of 351 people.
The place name, Delegate, may have derived from an Aboriginal word meaning "high mountains". The first village began in 1852 and was sited at Hayden's Bog, on the property now called "Bendolba". Mount Delegate, commonly known in the local area as "Delegate Hill", is situated across the border in Victoria, and stands at approximately 1325 m above sea level. It is the only single mountain in the Great Divide and of an unusual shape. Because of its height, Mount Delegate now has several telecommunication towers serving both NSW & Victoria.
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The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south east Asia approximately 65,000 years ago, during the last ice age. Arriving by sea, they settled the continent and had formed approximately 250 distinct language groups by the time of European settlement, maintaining some of the longest known continuing artistic and religious traditions in the world. Australia's written history commenced with the European maritime exploration of Australia. The Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon was the first known European to reach Australia, in 1606. In 1770, the British explorer James Cook mapped and claimed the east coast of Australia for Great Britain, and the First Fleet of British ships arrived at Sydney in 1788 to establish the penal colony of New South Wales. The European population grew in subsequent decades, and by the end of the 1850s gold rush, most of the continent had been explored by European settlers and an additional five self-governing British colonies established. Democratic parliaments were gradually established through the 19th century, culminating with a vote for the federation of the six colonies and foundation of the Commonwealth of Australia on 1 January 1901. Australia has since maintained a stable liberal democratic political system and wealthy market economy.
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AUD | Australian dollar | $ | 2 |
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