Currango Homestead
Australia / Kiandra, New South Wales
Location ID: #10239
Currango Homestead is the largest and most intact example of a permanent pastoral settlement above the snowline in Australia. It is situated on the eastern edge of the Currango plain, toward the northern end of the Kosciuszko National Park. It has over twenty-five remaining buildings and ruins, whose history spans 150 years of settlement in the Kosciuszko National Park.
Stockmen probably first brought their cattle to graze on the Gurrangorambla Plain in the summer of 1834. At first they stayed for the warmer months only, in simple slab huts. Then, as graziers brought their families up into the high country, some of these structures expanded into homesteads, with assorted outbuildings.