Mt Kosciuszko
Lake Hume
Constructed over a 17-year period between 1919 and 1936, the Hume Dam is located approximately 11 kilometres east of the city of Albury on Murray River. The impounded reservoir is called Lake Hume, formerly the Hume Reservoir. It is estimated to hold approximately six times the volume of water in Sydney Harbour. Lake Hume was the furthest upstream of the major reservoirs on the Murray River system, but Dartmouth Dam was built further up Mitta Mitta River to provide improved buffering across prolonged dry years. Hume has the capacity to release water at the fastest rate. Irrigation authorities used the reservoir as the storage of first resort. The reservoir typically falls to less than one-third capacity by March each year, but in normal years refills to at least two-thirds capacity before November, though Australia’s highly unpredictable climatic conditions cause these figures to vary quite significantly from year to year. In 2007 Lake Hume fell to 1% capacity, barely more than the water in the Murray and Mitta Mitta rivers flowing through on their original paths. Between 2010 and April 2013, the lowest storage level was in the range of 500,000 megalitres.
Mt Kosciuszko
Mount Kosciuszko is mainland Australia’s highest mountain, at 2,228 metres above sea level. It is located on the Main Range of the Snowy Mountains in Kosciuszko National Park, part of the Australian Alps National Parks and Reserves, in New South Wales, Australia, and is located west of Crackenback and close to Jindabyne.The mountain was named by the Polish explorer Paweł Strzelecki in 1840, in honour of Polish-Lithuanian freedom fighter General Tadeusz Kościuszko, because of its perceived resemblance to the Kościuszko Mound in Kraków.
An exploration party led by Strzelecki and James Macarthur beside him with Indigenous guides Charlie Tarra and Jackey set off on what is called Strzelecki’s Southern expedition. The approach was made from Geehi Valley. After climbing Hannel’s Spur, the peak now named Mount Townsend was reached. Here Strzelecki used his instruments to make observations. Mt Townsend is Australia’s second highest mountain, adjacent to and almost the same height as Mt Kosciuszko, and Strzlecki saw that the neighbouring peak was slightly higher. In the presence of Macarthur he named the higher summit Mount Kosciusko. As it was late, Macarthur decided to return to camp and Strzelecki alone climbed the Kosciuszko summit.
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