Monaro (New South Wales) - Wikipedia The Monaro region is characterised by rolling hills that rise to extremely rugged peaks in the Tinderry Mountains and to shallow valleys in the upper Murrumbidgee The basaltic Monaro Range separates the Snowy and Murrumbidgee drainages
Monaro Pioneers - RootsWeb The plains of Menaroo, which are at least from 2000 to 3000 feet above the level of the sea, and of which, in winter, the climate is exceedingly cold, is now occupied by a daily increasing multitude of squatters
The Monaro The region includes high mountain ranges, steep forested valleys, and open savanah like parkland, as well as the "treeless plains" of the Monaro It includes the Kosciuszko National Park, and is the site for the huge Snowy Mountains hydro electric scheme with its big dams and power stations
A Land of Sweeping Plains - fog. org. au Monaro Grasslands are the quintessential Australian landscape that was so evocatively depicted by Dorothea MacKellar in her iconic My Country The rolling Monaro plains that greeted the first Europeans must have seemed like the veritable Promised Land
REAL Monaro Since the 1960’s the Monaro plains have been used as the location for many films and advertisements From “The Sundowners”(1960), “The Well”, Jindabyne”, “Somersault”, “In Vitro” and most recently “The Drovers Wife” directed by Leah Purcell, were all filmed on the Monaro plains
Monaro Plains | This view of the Monaro Plains is . . . - Flickr Monaro Plains This view of the Monaro Plains is looking towards the north from somewhere south of the town of Cooma in New South Wales, Australia The plains are more or less treeless and were so when pioneers first came to the region
Monaro Plains - sydney-australia. biz Monaro Plains Touring Australia: Travelling along the Snowy Highway from the South Coast of New South Wales to Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory, takes you through the Monaro Plains in the tablelands of the Snowy Mountains Region