Lost Waterfalls of South Eastern Australia
New Series This is an evolving series about Australian waterfalls that have disappeared off modern maps. Lost waterfalls: pinched, forgotten, hidden or otherwise misplaced. The goal is to add them back to digital maps (together with pathways) using the tools in OpenStreetMap, Trails and Gaia. Waterfalls fall off maps for all sorts of strange reasons - but once they do, they start to fade from memory. It is too easy for this to happen in the modern world. It would not have been possible in the world of the First People. The First People and Australian watercourses share a solid connection. Rivers and creeks provide rich sources of food and water. They gave the people a unique organizational structure: clan control of valleys and language group control of river systems' vast swathes. Waterfalls, or perhaps, more importantly, the deep plunge pools at the foot of waterfalls, provided permanent water and food during prolonged dry periods. In the higher country, creeks and rivers a...
