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| Poplars on the shores of
Lake Jindabyne |
Jindabyne
Popular destination on the edge of the Snowy Mountains
Like Talbingo and Adaminaby, modern day Jindabyne is a new
town created after the original settlement was drowned by
the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electricity Authority in the late
1960s.
Nestled at the end of Lake Jindabyne (which was completed
in 1967 and has a capacity of 689 790 ML) modern day
Jindabyne owes its continuing existence to its proximity to
the major ski resorts in the Snowy Mountains and the superb
facilities it offers to trout fishermen. Located 61 km from
Cooma and 462 km from Sydney it is 991 metres above sea
level. It lies below the snowline but is close enough to the
Perisher-Blue Cow ski runs to be an ideal accommodation spot
for people not wanting to stay in the chalets on the
snowfields.
Modern day Jindabyne has a number of original and
interesting new churches including the unusually named St
Columbkillies Catholic Parish Church and the Uniting Church
both of which are perched on the hill overlooking the town
and the lake.
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| The Bicentennial Statue
of Paul Strzelecki on the foreshore of Lake
Jindabyne |
Beside Lake Jindabyne (and easily seen from the road) the
Australian Polish community have built a huge statue of
Count Paul Strzelecki who explored the wilderness of the
Snowy Mountains and named Australia's highest mountain. The
plaque on the statue reads:
'Sir Paul Edmund Strzelecki. Born in Poland on 20 July
1797. Arrived in Australia on 25 April 1839. From 1839 to
1843 he explored and surveyed vast areas of New South Wales,
Victoria and Tasmania. While exploring in the Snowy
Mountains region he discovered and climbed Mt Kosciuszko
which he named in honour of the Polish leader and patriot
Tadeusz Kosciuszko. He discovered gold and silver in New
South Wales, coal deposits in Tasmania, investigated the
possibilities of irrigation, measured the heights of
mountains, carried out soil analysis and collected and
identified many fossils and minerals. Geology, meteorology,
zoology and mineralogy.'
But Strzelecki was hardly the first explorer or settler
in the area. Jindabyne is associated with the earliest
settlers in the Snowy Mountains - the Ryries and the
Pendergasts. It is thought that the Pendergast brothers,
sons of an ex-convict, arrived in the area as early as the
1820s and certainly by the late 1830s both the Pendergasts
and the Ryries had runs and were raising sheep and growing a
little wheat. The Ryries actually built a flour mill in the
area in 1847.
The goldrush in 1859-60 gave the area a brief boost which
resulted in the establishment of a general store and a post
office (1862) and in 1882 a school was opened at Jindabyne
with a Police Station being constructed the following year.
The decision to release Rainbow trout into the Snowy River
in 1894 was the beginning of a fishing tradition which
continues today.
The tiny settlement of East Jindabyne has grown up on the
far side of the dam and is located directly above the site
of the old township. In fact some of the roads in East
Jindabyne still disappear into the lake to continue as
underwater roads in Old Jindabyne.
The departure of Old Jindabyne under the waters of the
Snowy River inspired the poet Douglas Stewart to write
'Farewell to Jindabyne' with the doggerel:
Let us lament for Jindabyne, it is going to be drowned,
Let us shed tears, as many as the occasion warrants;
The Snowy, the Thredbo and the Eucumbene engulf it,
Combining their copious torrents.
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