Greater Blue Mountains Area
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How it came to be
The Greater Blue Mountains are a deeply cut sandstone plateau inland from Sydney. The Darug and Gundungurra peoples have lived here for millennia; at Kings Tableland near Wentworth Falls, grooves where stone tools were ground date back about 22,000 years, and Red Hands Cave near Glenbrook holds the hand stencils of adults and children.
Settlers long saw the range as impassable until May 1813, when Gregory Blaxland, William Lawson and William Charles Wentworth crossed it and opened the interior. In 1994 the Wollemi pine, a lineage dating to the age of the dinosaurs, was found in remote gorges.
Seven national parks and the Jenolan Caves Karst Conservation Reserve, about 1.03 million ha, were inscribed in 2000. The area holds 91 eucalypt species, about 13 per cent of the world's total, and Aboriginal people from six language groups keep up their connection to the land.
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