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Wentworth Falls (33°43′S, 150°22′E, elevation 867 metres) is a town in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales located 100 kilometres west of Sydney, and about 8 kilometres east of Katoomba, Australia, with a population of 5,380. It is situatued on the Great Western Highway and has a railway station on the Main Western line.

Originally called The Weatherboard after the ‘Weatherboard Inn’ built in 1814, a year later the town was named Jamison’s Valley by Governor Lachlan Macquarie in honour of the colony's leading private citizen, Sir John Jamison. In July 1867, the first railway journey to the Blue Mountains left Penrith and travelled through to Weatherboard Station, where the train terminated. In 1879, the village took its name from a nearby system of waterfalls, which in turn were named for William Charles Wentworth, one of the men that headed the exploration to cross the mountains in 1813 and a friend of John Jamison[1].

Kings Tableland at the eastern end of Wentworth Falls contains areas of major archealogical importance, including the Kings Tableland Aboriginal Site. This area is highly significant to the Darug, Wiradjuri and Gundungarra people. Used as a gathering place for at least 14,000 years, the area contains a variety of cultural features, including engravings, axe-grinding grooves, modified rock pools and an occupation shelter[2]. Ingar Picnic Ground, one of the most remote and scenic picnic grounds in the Blue Mountains, is in the same vicinity. Also nearby are Sunset Lookout and McMahon’s Lookout, both of which provide long views as far south as Lake Burragorang.

There are many natural lookouts in the area including Breakfast Point Lookout, Princes Rock Lookout, Wentworth Falls Lookout and Rocket Point Lookout. A track through the Valley of the Waters leads to Empress Falls, Sylvia Falls, Lodore Falls, Flat Rock Falls and, near the junction of Jamison and Valley of the Waters Creeks, the sheltered Vera Falls. One of the most popular w

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