Adaminaby in NSW, Australia, exudes Charm, Excitement and Adventure in all Seasons

The charming tourist village of Adaminaby is established in the Snowy Mountains Region (High Country) established north of Cooma, Australia, in the Snowy River Shire of New South Wales.

The historic village is a trout angling centre and winter sports playground located at about 1000 metres (3,333 ft) above ocean level. It is one of the most elevated villages in Australia, and snowfalls occurs regularly throughout winter.

The building of Lake Eucumbene made it essential to re-locate the initial Old Township of Adaminaby in 1957. The present township is established on the Snowy Mountains Highway and is renowned as the "Home of The Big Trout". In times of drought, the initial township and relics of the vintage valley re-emerge from under the waters of the lake. It is a delight to explore these remains as they emerge from the dark water of the lake.

There are a many things to do and wonderful attractions in Adaminably and the surrounding Snowy Mountains District.

Nearby are the fabulous cool climate wine makers of the Shoalhaven Coast Winery Region and the Snowy Mountains District.

Today, Adminaby is a well liked place travelled to for horse riders, bushwalkers, fly-fishermen, trout anglers, rock climbers and water sports enthusiasts as well as a being a great base for examining the fascinating history of the Snowy Mountains Scheme. The Snowy Mountains district was an significant homeland for the Aborigines of the Adaminaby and surrounding localities for  thousands of years, with regular multiple tribal meetings being held in summer in the High Country engaging what is believed to be up to a 1000 persons for catching and feasting on the Bogong Moth. This practice proceeded until around 1865.
 
There are a broad variety of amusement venues, taverns and gigs offering live musicians in the Snowy Mountains area.

Man From Snowy River Country

Europeans explorers, horsemen and gaziers reached the locality from the late 1820s. Adaminaby first started to evolve as an farming centre from the 1830s, with sheep and beef cattle evolving an financial mainstay. Some historians accept as factual that Banjo Patterson's most well renowned verse, "The Man From Snowy River", may have been motivated by the wild exploits of a renowned Adaminaby stockman, named Charlie McKeahnie.  McKeahnie past away in a travelling accident in 1895 and is now interred in the Old Adaminaby Cemetery on the coastlines of Lake Eucumbene. Patterson's feature, the Man From Snowy River, is most probable a composite feature, founded on diverse persons engaged in brumby searches in the Adaminaby district.

Patterson was not the only Australian author to find inspiration at Adaminaby - the bard Barcroft Boake furthermore composed about McKeahnie's travels and explots in "On the Range", in which McKeahnie hunts down a well proportioned horse which had got away with a mob of brumbies ( untamed and unbroken) horses. The  Nobel Prize triumphant scribe Patrick White got a job as a jackaroo at the famous Bolaro Station in Adaminaby in the 1930s.

In addition to agriculture, the treasures of the village were influenced by the breakthrough of gold discovered at close by Kiandra in 1859 and later introduction of the winter sport of recreational skiing to the locality round 1861, when a group of bored Scandinavian gold prospectors are believed to have strapped fence planks to their boots and skidded down the snowbound high grounds of a countryside too iced for mining. Kiandra's ski amenities were accommodation moved "up the hill" to their present location in the Mount Selwyn Snowfields in 1978. Adaminaby continues the major service centre for the Northern skifields - one of the oldest localities for recreational skiing in the world.

Early graziers utilised the high homeland wild country in the hills above Adaminaby as summer pastureland. The locality was set apart as a National Chase in 1906 and subsequently became the world famous Kosciuszko National Park. Today the locality is renowned for its charming historic huts and access to the exclusive wilds localities and habitats of the High Country, encompassing the wild and rugged Mount Jagungal Wilderness Area.

Relocation of the initial township

The most significant episode in the town's annals, came with the building of the huge mesh of tunnels and dams of one of the most renowned engineering feats in the world - the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme, which started at Adaminaby in 1949. A large lake about nine times the capacity of Sydney Harbour finally inundated the valley in which the initial townsite lay. A extended drought glimpsed the wrecks of the vintage township start to resurface in April 2007, appealing the vigilance of international newspapers - and even assessments to the mythical town of Atlantis.

The amazing saga of Adaminaby's move to its new site was featured in a series of  1958 movies made by the Snowy Mountains Authority Film Unit ("Operation Adaminaby"). The relocation was furthermore the topic of a 2001 documentary made by local historian Jeannine Baker, entitle "Our Drowned Town", which was showed on the SBS Television Network.

Many entire buildings and houses, and even the Commercial Bank Building were dismantled or cut up and conveyed on the back of motor trucks. More than 100 structures were re-erected at the new townsite. Transportation of the first dwelling from Old Adaminaby to New Adaminaby (a total distance of just six miles) took a total of six days.

Today a delightful and charming tourist town has been constructed round the handful of relocated structures on the freshly covred lakeshore at Old Adaminaby.