Top of the Range - Guyra, NSW, Australia
S 30° 14.580 E 151° 40.180
56J E 372000 N 6653539
On the southern entry to Guyra is the Welcome Sign, reminding that you are at "The Top of the Range". [Some 1330 metres even.]
Waymark Code: WMXYCD
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Date Posted: 03/16/2018
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On a tall, two wooden post Welcoming Sign is a narrower board, with:
ELEVATION 1330m
Not too far away is the Guyra Summit Caravan Park, which advertises itself as being the "Highest Caravan Park in Australia". [As even the commercial camping sites in Kosciusko National Park are at lower elevations than here.] The sign is nicely painted, with sulphur-crested cockatoo flying above the gilded, and routed town name.
Guyra is mid-sized town on the Northern Tableland, about half way between Armidale and Glen Innes, on the New England Highway. Indigenous Australians (Aborigines) were the first inhabitants of this elevated plateau, and made use of the swampy land nearby, as it drew the wildlife.
Wikipedia gives that the name Guyra may come from the Aboriginal word for the black cockatoo. In 1840 a lease of 15,000 acres of land was called 'Gyra', becoming 'Guyra' in 1848. The area was proclaimed a village in 1885, after the railway went through in 1884. (
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Visited: 1436, Sunday, 23 July, 2017