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The Three Sisters
Did you know The Three Sisters are
922, 918 & 906 metres tall, respectively. That's over 3000 feet above sea level!
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The Legend
The Aboriginal dream-time legend has it that three
sisters, 'Meehni', 'Wimlah' and Gunnedoo' lived in the Jamison Valley as members
of the Katoomba tribe.
These beautiful young ladies had fallen in love with
three brothers from the Nepean tribe, yet tribal law forbade them to marry.
The brothers were not happy to accept this law and so decided to use
force to capture the three sisters causing a major tribal battle.
As the
lives of the three sisters were seriously in danger, a witchdoctor from the Katoomba
tribe took it upon himself to turn the three sisters into stone to protect them
from any harm. While he had intended to reverse the spell when the battle was
over, the witchdoctor himself was killed. As only he could reverse the spell to
return the ladies to their former beauty, the sisters remain in their magnificent
rock formation as a reminder of this battle for generations to come. |
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