Wikipedia:GLAM/State Library of New South Wales/Blue Mountains Editathon

Event details

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  • Date: to be confirmed
  • Time: 10am - 1pm
  • Venue: AMAZE gallery, State Library of NSW, Macquarie Street Sydney

The AMAZE gallery hosted an exhibition of library materials relating to the history of the scenic Blue Mountains supported by the Curio app for Android and iOS which includes text about the individual items as well.

Blue Mountains, NSW

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Articles to work on:

Existing articles Comments
Blue Mountains (New South Wales)
1813 crossing of the Blue Mountains
Greater Blue Mountains Area a World Heritage Site
Electoral district of Blue Mountains
Blue Mountains railway line
Three Sisters (Australia)
Six Foot Track
Blue Mountains Dams
Bells Line of Road
Ruined Castle

Content

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A number of images from the Library's collection have been added to the Wikimedia Commons for the event and are linked below.

References

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  • Crossing the Blue Mountains
  • Macquarie's crossing
  • Black, M. P., & Mooney, S. D. (2006). Holocene fire history from the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage area, New South Wales, Australia: the climate, humans and fire nexus. Regional Environmental Change, 6(1-2), 41-51.
  • Blue Mountains Centenary Celebrations Committee, & Walker, F. (1913). Official History of the First Crossing of the Blue Mountains in 1813. WE Smith, Limited.
  • Breckell, Maureen. "Shades of Grey: Early Contact in the Blue Mountains." Blue Mountains Dreaming. Three Sisters Productions (1993): 114-121.
  • Mackaness, G. (Ed.). (1965). Fourteen Journeys Over the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, 1813-1841 (Vol. 1). Horwitz-Grahame.
  • Merriman, J. (1993). Difficult, rocky, sandy, stoney, flowery: aboriginal ecology in the Blue Mountains. Blue Mountains dreaming: the Aboriginal Heritage. Three Sisters Productions, 82-113.
  • Thomas, M. (2004). The artificial horizon: imagining the Blue Mountains. Melbourne Univ. Publishing.
  • Tisdell, C., & Wilson, C. (2002). World heritage listing of Australian natural sites: tourism stimulus and its economic value. Economic analysis and policy, 32, 27-50.

NB: while onsite for the editathon full access to the Library's databases is available for citing references, including JSTOR.