| Blue Mountains Townships |
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| Mount
Tomah
| Quick Facts: | | | Distance
From Sydney: |
103km |
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Population
(part of Bell & Mt Victoria) (2006 Census): |
828 |
| | Height
Above Sea Level: | 1000m |
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| While Mount Tomah has a Hawkesbury telephone
area code. Mount Tomah is officially part of the Blue Mountains. The town is located
on the Bells Line of Road just west of the town Berambing. Mount Tomah is a township
with its own unique character. While
the Mountains were crossed by the famous explorers Blaxland, Wentworth and Lawson
in 1813, in 1804 another explorer George Caley set out via a different route.
George Caley was a plant collector who reached a location in the Blue Mountains
which he named Fern Tree Hill. This point was later named the township
Mount Tomah.
Mount Tomah is only a small township, yet
the town hosts one of the Blue Mountains' major tourist attractions, the Mount
Tomah Botanic Garden, subtitled the cool climate garden of the Royal Botanic
Gardens Sydney. Featuring over 5000 species of cool climate plants set on 28 hectares
of land. The garden was opened to the public in 1987.
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