Research Catalog

Title

Struggle for the Snowy; the background of the Snowy Mountains Scheme.

Author

Wigmore, Lionel.

Publication

Melbourne, New York Oxford University Press, 1968.

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Details

Description

xx, 215 pages illustrations, maps, portrait; 22 cm

Summary

Australia is the driest continent in the world and long droughts cause devistation and financial losses to the whole county. Since the early days of settlement men of vision have brought forward ideas for making use of the water which is held in natural storage during winter in the great snofields in the south-east corner of the continent. Their plans to catch the melting snows and divert them to the dry inland where welcomed, but the problems of reconciling the diverse agricultural, industrial and political needs of the time, of meeting the growing need for power, and of surmounting the technical difficulties involved, took many years of discussion and planning. The ideas and the blueprints gradually crystallized into what is now known throughout the world as the Snowy Mountain Scheme. It is today an undertaking far greater than was at first thought possible, and the huge dams and miles of pipeline, which store the waters and divert them through the granite of the mountains to the farms and irrigation settlements, also provide the means of generating great quantities of electricity for use in three of Australia's largest cities, Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne. Struggle for the Snowy was written at the request of the Snowy Mountains Authority, the administratiors of the Scheme, and those who imagination has been caught by the vision of the undertaking will find in this book the full story of how the Scheme came into existence. (Inside Cover).

Subject

• Snowy Mountains Hydroelectric Authority
• Water resources development > Australia
• Water resources development
• Snowy River (N.S.W. and Vic.)
• Australia
• Australia > Snowy River

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 195-204.

Contents

Preface -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. New Pastures -- 2. To The Mountains -- 3. Gold -- 4. Water -- 5. New Nation -- 6. From the Heights -- 7. Struggle for the Snowy -- 8. A Time to go Forward -- 9. Over the Hump -- 10. Under Way -- 11. Battling Through -- 12. Achievement -- Principal Sources -- Glossary -- Index.

ISBN

• 0195502892
• 9780195502893

LCCN

77462297

OCLC

• ocm00071865
• 71865
• SCSB-471853

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library