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The Three Sisters

            We visited the Blue Mountains in Katoomba, NSW, Australia today. The size and expanse of this mountain range is amazing and a very popular tourist destination for overseas visitors and residents of Australia as well. There are many walks in the area taking from 1 hour up to a few hours and people are quite often lost in the bush.
The Three Sisters are a set of three closely-spaced, steep-sided rock pillars, on the edge of the Blue Mountains Plateau, at Echo Point, Katoomba, 110 km west of Sydney, New South Wales. They overlook the Jamison Valley, whose floor is over 300 m below them. Their name is derived from an Aboriginal legend which speaks of three sisters, Meeni, Wimlah and Gunedoo who were turned to stone for their misdeeds. They are made of Triassic sandstone (Banks Wall Sandstone), and were formed by erosion along two prominent sets of perpendicular joints (planes of weakness) in the rock. Erosion has cut away rock along the joints, leaving step-sided blocks of sandstone separated from each other by narrow spaces and steep vertical cliffs.
The Greater Blue Mountains Area consists of 1.03 million hectares of mostly forested landscape on a sandstone plateau 60 to 180 kilometres inland from central Sydney, New South Wales. The property includes vast expanses of wilderness and is equivalent in area to almost one third of Belgium, or twice the size of Brunei.
   

Taken on: January 31, 2008

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