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The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

Darwin's Walk

Track or path

Walk starting from Wilson Park Wentworth Falls along a boardwalk and bush track through open forest, shrub, and hanging swamps to the national park boundary, where the walk meets Weeping Rock loop.

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Name
Commemorates
Darwin, Charles
Type
Track or path

Darwin's Walk, Wentworth Falls

CC BY-SA 2.0
by
John Low
,
2016
supported by
Varuna The National Writers House
Blue Mountains City of the Arts Trust 2015 Grant Program

Darwin's Walk starts from Wilson Park Wentworth Falls and runs across a boardwalk and bush track through open forest, shrub, and hanging swamps to the national park boundary. It was in the valley at the end of Jamison Creek that Charles Darwin stood in 1836, struggling for words to describe the 'quite novel' scene before him, the 'immense gulf' and the 'absolutely vertical' sandstone cliffs where 'a person standing on the edge and throwing down a stone, can see it strike the trees in the abyss below'.

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