Teaching Activty - Creating a physical time line

1820s First recorded visit to alpine area, by Major

Currie and his companions Ovens and Wild

1935 a further 400,000ha was proposed for

conservation, but it didnt occur. This was the
Kosciuszko State Park Act was already being
planned.

1830s grazing era beings in the alps after word is

spread of lush vegetation

1944 - Kosciuszko State Park Act enacted.

1840 - The first successful climb of Kosci was

headed by a Polish explorer, Count Pawe Edmund
Strzelecki, in 1840. He also gave the mountain its
name-Kosciuszko. Pawe Strzelecki named the
mountain after Tadeusz Kociuszko, as a part of the
mountain resembled the tomb of the brave General
in Krakw, Poland.
1906 First move of conservation in the alpine
region.
An area of 160km2 from the base of Mount
Kosciusko, known as the Snowy Mountains
National Chase was reserved under the
Crown Lands Act 1861 for the use of public
recreation and preservation of game.
1932 - Baldur Byles, who was a forester, reported
on the impacts of grazing in the alps. From this the
Snowy Mountains were declared an erosion zone.

1976 - The park was renamed Kosciuszko National

Park in ____after the responsibilities were
transferred to the National Parks and Wildlife
Service.
1987 The Wilderness Act 1987; breaks the park
up into 6 areas of management;
Wilderness Zone - Wilderness areas declared
under the Wilderness Act 1987;
Back Country Zone - Those parts of the park
without public road access and not within
declared wilderness areas;
Minor Road Corridors - Corridors along minor
public roads and associated visitor
developments;
Major Road Corridors - Corridors along major
sealed and unsealed public roads and
associated visitor developments; and
Visitor Services Zone - Alpine resorts,
development nodes and operational centre

2016 - Kosciuszko National Park today is part of the

1.6 million hectare chain of national parks and
reserves across the Australian alpine area