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This is a disused quarry on the south face of Munibung Hill, near Speers Point, a suburb of Lake Macquarie. During operation it was known as Hawkins Quarry and the sandstone and conglomerate quarried were used for road building. It also supplied aggregate for several major projects including Williamtown RAAF base and the memorial pool at Speers Point. The quarry ceased operations in 2014. The geological unit exposed here is the Teralba Conglomerate, which is part of the Catherine Hill Bay Formation, one of the youngest units of the late Permian Newcastle Coal Measures.
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There are no kangaroos in Austria. We're talking about Australia, the world's smallest continent. That being cleared up, let's dive right in! Australia is a sovereign state under the Commonwealth of Nations, which is in turn overseen by Queen Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, Queen of Australia and Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth. The continent was first sighted and charted by the Dutch in 1606. Captain James Cook of Britain came along in the next century to claim it for Britain and name it "New South Wales." Shortly thereafter it was declared to be a penal colony full of nothing but criminals and convicts, giving it the crap reputation you may have heard at your last cocktail party. This rumor ignores 40,000 years of pre-European human history, especially the Aboriginal concept of Dreamtime, an interesting explanation of physical and spiritual reality. The two biggest cities in Australia are Sydney and Melbourne. Sydney is more for business, Melbourne for arts. But that's painting in very broad strokes. Take a whirl around the panoramas to see for yourself! Text by Steve Smith.
