Adaminaby

Adaminaby
New South Wales
Adaminaby; New South Wales
	Main street of Adaminaby, New South Wales
Coordinates	35°59′46″S 148°46′26″E / 35.99611°S 148.77389°ECoordinates: 35°59′46″S 148°46′26″E / 35.99611°S 148.77389°E
Population	301 (2016 census)
Postcode(s)	2629
Elevation	1,017 m (3,337 ft)
Location	402 km (250 mi) from Sydney ; 140 km (87 mi) from Canberra ; 52 km (32 mi) from Cooma ;
LGA(s)	Snowy Monaro Regional Council
County	Wallace
State electorate(s)	Monaro
Federal division(s)	Eden-Monaro

Adaminaby (35°59′S 148°46′E / 35.983°S 148.767°E / -35.983; 148.767) is a town in southeast New South Wales, Australia on the Snowy Mountains Highway. The first town of Adaminaby was in the way of a new dam built on the Eucumbene River as part of the Snowy Mountains Scheme. In 1957 more than 100 buildings were relocated to a new site 10 kilometres away where they would not be flooded.^[3] The name, Adaminaby is an Aboriginal word meaning a camp, or a resting place.^[4] The town first started during the gold rush to Kiandra, New South Wales|Kiandra in 1860. It was first called Seymour, but the name was changed to Adaminaby in 1886.^[4]

Adaminaby Media

Start of championship "snow shoe" races at Kiandra in 1900. Adaminaby is the main service town for the Northern NSW skifields, where skiing in Australia began in the 1860s
The creation of Lake Eucumbene made it necessary to re-locate the original town of Adaminaby.
Official launch of the Snowy Mountains Scheme at Adaminaby in 1949. From the left, Prime Minister, Ben Chifley; Governor-General of Australia, William McKell and Minister for Works and Housing, Nelson Lemmon.
Lake Eucumbene swallowed the original township of Adaminaby, but has become a tourist drawcard for the district.
The Big Trout, Adaminaby's tribute to the fishing in Lake Eucumbene
The Snowy Scheme Museum was opened by the Governor General in 2011.
Robert Mitchum in "The Sundowners", 1960.