What national park in Australia hosts the continent's second oldest ski club, and its nearest village named Charlotte Pass?
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Kosciusko Alpine Club Kosciusko Alpine Club (KAC) is the second oldest ski club in Australia after the Kiandra Pioneer Ski Club (1861). It was founded in 1909, two months after the NSW Government opened the Hotel Kosciusko at Diggers Creek, the first hotel in the Kosciusko area. The Hotel Kosciusko became the winter home of KAC until 1930 when the Kosciusko Chalet opened at Charlotte’s Pass. KAC was the only ski club in the Kosciuszko area until 1920 when the Ski Club of Australia was formed.
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Charlotte Pass, New South Wales Charlotte Pass (often erroneously referred to as Charlotte's Pass), elevation 1837 m , is a location, snow resort and village in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales, Australia. The pass is located in the Kosciuszko National Park where the Kosciuszko Road crosses Kangaroo Ridge. Charlotte Pass is the closest village to Mount Kosciuszko.
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Mount Taylor (Australian Capital Territory) Mount Taylor is a prominent hill with an elevation of 856 m   that is located between the Woden Valley, Weston Creek district and Tuggeranong Valley, in Canberra, within the Australian Capital Territory, Australia. Mount Taylor is part of the Canberra Nature Park and is surrounded by the suburbs of Kambah , Fisher , Waramanga , Chifley , Pearce , and Torrens . There are walking tracks to the peak. While there is no public road access to the peak there is a fire trail up the mountain from the end of Waldock St, Chifley where there is also a car park and picnic tables. The fire trail (also known as the management trail) is normally closed to public vehicular access by locked gates, but the gates contain access points for walkers. The trail is especially popular with families and older walkers as it provides the easiest and most leisurely access to the peak. Originally a dirt road, it was partially sealed in 2009 on the steeper grades to make it safer for walkers and mountain bike riders.
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Telowie Gorge Conservation Park Telowie Gorge Conservation Park is a protected area located in the Australian state of South Australia about 7.5 km east of the town of Port Germein in the gazetted locality of Telowie. The conservation park was proclaimed under the "National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972" in 1972 in respect to an area of land already under statutory protection since 1970 as the Telowie Gorge National Park. As of 2010, the conservation park was reported as follows: Home to a colony of yellow-footed rock-wallabies, Telowie Gorge Conservation Park features some of the most dramatic scenery in the Southern Flinders Ranges. The gorge and its diverse landforms have been created by Telowie Creek, which over time has cut a deep gorge through the range. Today, the gorge creates a rich variety of habitats for animals and plants from both the southern temperate and arid regions. During winter, Telowie Creek flows from the gorge onto the plains. The conservation park includes the following services for visitors - two camping areas at the entrance on the western side on land which is part of the Mount Remarkable National Park and four trails including one dedicated for use by go-karts as well as access to the Heysen Trail which passes along part of the eastern side of the conservation park and two other local trails. The conservation park is classified as an IUCN Category III protected area.
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Bimberi Peak Bimberi Peak or Mount Bimberi with an elevation of 1913 m located within the Brindabella Ranges is the highest mountain in the Australian Capital Territory. It is located on the border between New South Wales and the ACT, the NSW portion in Kosciuszko National Park and the ACT portion in Namadgi National Park. It is accessible by bush walking trails and requires no specialised climbing skills, although there is no marked trail to the very summit. As the highest mountain in the ACT, it is a popular spot for tourists
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Mornington Peninsula National Park The Mornington Peninsula National Park is a national park located in the Greater Melbourne region of Victoria, Australia. The 2686 ha national park is situated approximately 90 km south of Melbourne on the Mornington Peninsula.
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Glass House Mountains National Park Glass House Mountains National Park is a heritage-listed national park at Glass House Mountains, Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. It is also known as Beerburrum Forest Reserve 1. It is 70 km north of Brisbane and consists of a flat plain punctuated by rhyolite and trachyte volcanic plugs, the cores of extinct volcanoes that formed 27 million to 26 million years ago. The mountains would once have had pyroclastic exteriors, but these have eroded away.
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Mount Remarkable National Park Mount Remarkable National Park is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located about 238 km north of the state capital of Adelaide and 25 km east of Port Augusta. It is also the name of the highest peak in the Park, with a height of 960 m .
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Lake Albina Ski Lodge Lake Albina Ski Lodge was built overlooking Lake Albina in the Kosciuszko National Park of Australia, by The Ski Tourers Association, (later renamed The Australian Alpine Club). In 1952 the first Albina Summer Slalom Cup was held, taking advantage of the seasonally unusual snow conditions. Summer time ski events continued for at least another 3 years on either Mount Kosciuszko or Mount Townsend. The National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) required the club to vacate the lodge in 1969, and it gradually became a ruin. It was finally demolished by NPWS in 1983 .
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Bittangabee Bay Bittangabee Bay is a tiny, picturesque bay on the rugged and remote stretch of coastline south of Eden in New South Wales, Australia. The bay is located in Ben Boyd National Park, and there is a campground nearby. The facilities are maintained by National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS), Merimbula office. It can be reached by an unsealed road from the Princes Highway. The bay is the only haven between Twofold Bay and Mallacoota Inlet, and passing yachts are seen anchored for the night there most evenings. It is fed by Bittangabee Creek.
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Kosciuszko Road The Kosciuszko Road is a road in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales, Australia which runs from Pine Valley , to the ski resort of Charlotte Pass . It passes through the towns of Berridale and Jindabyne before entering Kosciuszko National Park. Within the national park it provides access to Smiggin Holes and Perisher Valley and Charlotte Pass ski resorts, and terminates just past the entry to the latter.
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Eurimbula National Park Eurimbula is a national park in Queensland, Australia, 411 km north of Brisbane. The nearest town is Agnes Water.
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Marramarra National Park Marramarra National Park is a protected national park that is located in the Hawkesbury region of northwestern Sydney, New South Wales, in eastern Australia. The 11785 ha national park is situated approximately 40 km northwest of the Sydney central business district.
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Edmund Kennedy National Park Edmund Kennedy is a national park in Queensland, Australia, 1269 km northwest of Brisbane. The national park is part of the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area. It was named after Edmund Kennedy, a mid-nineteenth century explorer.
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Coalstoun Lakes National Park Coalstoun Lakes is a national park in Queensland, Australia, 236 km northwest of Brisbane. It features a volcano, Mount Le Brun, which has two craters that contain intermittent crater lakes. Coalstoun Lakes is Queensland's smallest national park.
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Camooweal Caves National Park Camooweal Caves is a national park in Queensland, Australia, 15 km southeast of Camooweal and 1720 km northwest of Brisbane.
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Single National Park Single is a national park in New South Wales, Australia, 432 km north of Sydney.
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Brindabella National Park Brindabella National Park is an 18454 ha national park in New South Wales, Australia, that is located approximately 267 km southwest of Sydney central business district in the Brindabella Range. Much of the eastern boundary of the national park forms part of the western border of the Australian Capital Territory with New South Wales.
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Goonengerry National Park Goonengerry is a small village in New South Wales, Australia, 626 km northeast of Sydney. It is known for its horse riding and National Park.
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Mount Sugarloaf (New South Wales) Mount Sugarloaf, also known as "Great Sugar Loaf", is a mountain in the lower Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia, overlooking the cities of Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, Cessnock and Maitland. The summit of the mountain is in the Lake Macquarie suburb of West Wallsend and access to the summit is gained via this suburb. However, the mountain itself is also part of the city of Cessnock suburbs Mulbring and Richmond Vale. It is home to television transmitters that broadcast to the lower Hunter region. On 18 and 19 July 1965, the mountain received 10 cm of snow. It also snowed on the summit in the winter of 1975.
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Booti Booti National Park Booti Booti National Park is a national park in New South Wales, Australia, 282 km , by road, north-north-east of Sydney. The holiday town of Forster-Tuncurry lies immediately to the north.
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Noosa National Park Noosa National Park is a national park in Queensland, Australia, 121 km north of Brisbane. It is situated near Noosa Heads between the Pacific Ocean and the Sunshine Coasts's northern area of urban development and extends southwards, past Lake Weyba to Coolum.