Currawang, Australia facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Currawang New South Wales
House in Currawang
Currawang Location in New South Wales
Population	182 (2016 census)
Postcode(s)	2580
Location	40 km (25 mi) SW of Goulburn 60 km (37 mi) NE of Canberra 20 km (12 mi) NW of Tarago
LGA(s)	Queanbeyan-Palerang Region Upper Lachlan Shire Goulburn-Mulwaree Council
Region	Southern Tablelands
County	Argyle
Parish	Currawang
State electorate(s)	Monaro
Federal Division(s)	Eden-Monaro
Lands administrative divisions around Currawang: Collector Wollogorang Yarra Collector Currawang Lake Bathurst Lake George Lake George Tarago

Currawang is a locality in the Queanbeyan–Palerang Regional Council, on the edges of Upper Lachlan Shire and Goulburn-Mulwaree Council, in New South Wales, Australia. It is located to the north of Lake George. It shares its name with the Currawang Parish of Argyle County, in which it is located. This was formerly known as the parish of Currowang. Both names derive from an Aboriginal word for the spearwood tree (Acacia doratoxylon).

Description

The tree typically grows to a maximum height of 5 to 15 m (16 to 49 ft). It has brown to grey and sometimes reddish coloured bark that has a rough texture and is hard and corrugated or fissured. The glabrous branchlets are angled at the extremities. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The grey-green glabrous phyllodes are sickle shaped and narrowed at both ends. They are thinly coriaceous and have a length of 8 to 16 cm (3.1 to 6.3 in) and a width of 5 to 10 mm (0.20 to 0.39 in) with many fine and close non-anastomosing nerves with one to three that are more prominent. It flowers between May and August producing inflorescences that occur in pairs with cylindrical flower-spikes that have a length of 2 to 4.5 cm (0.79 to 1.77 in) containing bright lemon coloured yellow. The seed pods that form after flowering are brown with yellow margins and are shallowly constricted between the seeds. The thinly coriaceous and glabrous pods have a length of up to 9 cm (3.5 in) and a width of around 3 mm (0.12 in)to 9 cm long. the seeds inside are arranged longitudinally. The shiny blackish to dark-brown seeds have an oblong shape and are 4 to 5 mm (0.16 to 0.20 in) in length with an aril that is folded below the seed.

Distribution

It is endemic to parts of Queensland and New South Wales and is fairly widespread throughout the Darling Downs region. The northern end of its range is to about 120 km (75 mi) to the south of Charters Towers it is found as far as Adavale to the west and down to around Yetman in the south. The tree will often forms dense stands and is sometimes associated with Acacia shirleyi and also as a part of open forests and Eucalyptus woodlands growing in shallow stony soils usually over a bed of weathered sandstone.

Images for kids

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  Lake George from space, November 1985

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  August 2010, aerial view looking northwest over the wind farm.

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  1840s map of the County of Argyle

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  Currowang in the distance

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  View from Currawang Rd, Looking South-East (April 2021)

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  Ruin at Currawang, looking south with Lake George in the background