Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2021L01306:reg:8:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2021L01306
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 8 (pt 2/2)
Character Range: 35855–38090

this feature is important. The rehabilitation of the northern section of this waterway for natural water filtering is also considered to be an important proposal.
    4. Acton Ridge is part of a track that connected a series of important landmarks: Mount Rogers, Black Mountain and Capital Hill—the latter being a sacred site.
    5. Surrounding features with associative cultural significance:
     >        Black Mountain is an important landscape feature with connections to other landscape features.
       –        In particular the connection between Mount Rogers, Black Mountain and Capital Hill is very important.

       –        Black Mountain with Mount Ainslie formed a pair of landmarks also used for navigation and landscape recognition. They were seen as being representative of women's breasts.
      >        More than one corroboree site was identified during this process: one where the entrance to the Botanic Gardens now stands (noted above), one just to the south of Black Mountain Drive and one further to the south, now submerged under the lake. None of these are directly affected by works on campus.
      >        Black Mountain was part of a longer and more substantial walking/tracking route up the east coast of Australia. Now parts of that walking track have been incorporated into the 'National Trail'.

  Archaeological evidence has shown that the Molonglo River, Ginninderra Creek and Murrumbidgee River corridors were important Indigenous resource zones that attracted a considerable level of hunter-gatherer occupation. The importance of these zones has been demonstrated by archaeological surveys where several hundred Aboriginal sites including open camps sites, stone quarries, scarred trees and ceremonial sites have been recorded. The proliferation of stone artefact sites, their geographical locations and densities have indicated that human activities were focused on the gentle slopes, spurs and alluvial flats bordering the riverine corridors where access to water and food sources were readily available. The NFSA site, is located in such an area on high ground above the former Molonglo River and would have been a focal area of subsistence activities and movement for several millennia.