Extract
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| GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES REGISTER EXTRACT | |
| 26th May 2013 | |
| Reference: | 39991 |
| Placename: | Mount Wilson |
| Designation: | Village |
| Status: | Assigned 20th March 1970 |
| GNB File: | GNB3726 |
| LGA: | Blue Mountains |
| Approx. AGD66 Lat: | -33 31 00 |
| Approx. AGD66 Long: | 150 22 00 |
| Approx. GDA94 Lat: | -33 30 54 |
| Approx. GDA94 Long: | 150 22 04 |
| Topographic Map: | Mount Wilson |
| 1:100000 Map: | Katoomba 8930 |
| Parish: | Irvine |
| County: | Cook |
| Description: | Village on Mount Wilson about 9 km E of Bell. |
| Origin: | Named by newly appointed Surveyor General P.F. Adams while visiting staff surveyor E.S. Wyndham's survey camp at Waterfall Creek, Mt. Wilson, in March, 1868. Named after John Bowie Wilson (1820-1883) M.L.A. Minister for Lands, New South Wales. (Currey S H, `Mount Wilson`, p. 27). |
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