Yerranderie, New South Wales

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Yerranderrie (34°07′S 150°13′E) is a ghost town within the Kanangra-Boyd National Park of New South Wales, Australia in Wollondilly Shire. Formerly a silver mining town of 2000 people, the mining industry collapsed in 1927 ,and the town was cut off from direct access from Sydney by the establishment of the Warragamba Dam and Lake Burragorang in 1959. Now divided into two sections, the residential township adjacent to a public airstrip and the historic site 1 km further west. The area is surrounded by abandoned mine shafts and mining relics. Accessible mainly by dirt road from Oberon, New South Wales 70 km to the west, although there is a seldom used route through Warragamba to the east. The township was established on the slopes north of the Yerranderrie Peak, which is the remains of a volcanic dyke and the source of the mineral wealth of the area. Yerranderrie is taken from two local Aboriginal words meaning slope and summit.