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Weather blue mou11/18/2023 The Kiandra Goldrush was short-lived, but the township remained a service centre for recreational and survival skiing for over a century. The discovery of gold at Kiandra (elevation 1,400 m or 4,600 ft), in 1859, briefly enticed a population of thousands above the snowline and saw the introduction of recreational skiing to the Snowy Mountains around 1861. Skiing in Australia began in the goldrush town of Kiandra around 1861. Recreational skiing began at Kiandra in the 1860s and experienced a boom in the 20th century following the commencement of the construction of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme between 19 which brought many European workers to the district and opened up access to the ranges. In 1944 this became the Kosciuszko State Park and the Kosciuszko National Park in 1967. The Kosciuszko National Park came into existence as the National Chase Snowy Mountains on 5 December 1906. Since the last resident left in 1974, Kiandra has become a ghost town of ruins and abandoned diggings. At its height this community had a population of about 4,000 people, and ran 14 hotels. In the 19th century gold was mined on the high plains near Kiandra. Today these huts are maintained by the National Parks and Wildlife Service or volunteer organisations like the Kosciuszko Huts Association. The cattle graziers have left a legacy of mountain huts scattered across the area. Banjo Paterson's famous poem The Man From Snowy River recalls this era. High country stockmen followed who used the Snowy Mountains for grazing during the summer months. The area was first explored by Europeans in 1835, and in 1840, Edmund Strzelecki ascended Mount Kosciuszko and named it after the Polish patriot. Large gatherings were held in the High Country during summer for collective feasting on the Bogong moth. The mountain range is thought to have had Aboriginal occupation for 20,000 years. The Alpine Way and Snowy Mountains Highway are the major roads through the Snowy Mountains region. The range is host to the mountain plum-pine, a low-lying type of conifer. It is considered to be one of the centres of the Australian ski industry during the winter months, with all four snow resorts in New South Wales being located in the region. The Snowy Mountains experiences large natural snowfalls every winter and late autumn, normally during May, June, July, August and early September, with the snow cover melting by late spring. The offshore Tasmanian highlands makes up the only other major alpine region present in the whole of Australia. It makes up the northeastern half of the Australian Alps (the other half being the Victorian Alps) and contains Australia's five tallest peaks, all of which are above 2,100 m (6,890 ft), including the tallest Mount Kosciuszko, which reaches to a height of 2,228 m (7,310 ft) above sea level. The Snowy Mountains, known informally as " The Snowies", is an IBRA subregion in southern New South Wales, Australia, and is the tallest mountain range in mainland Australia, being part of the continent's Great Dividing Range cordillera system.
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