Fitzroy Falls

Postcode: 2577

Fitzroy Falls is a village in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia, in Wingecarribee Shire. It was previously known as Yarrunga, and is now named after the 81 metre waterfall located there.

First discovered in the early 1800's by Charles Throsby, Fitzroy Falls (the waterfall), was named after the New South Wales Governor Fitzroy during his visit to the beautiful area in the 1850's. While a town was planned for the area in the 1860's little development occurred. With the production of motor vehicles Fizroy Falls became, and still remains, a popular stopping point for tourists traveling towards the Highlands.

The population is about 500 including the villages of Avoca and Myra Vale.

Morton National Park's features include rugged sandstone cliffs, deep and well-forested valleys, and the Clyde, Shoalhaven, Endrick, and Kangaroo Rivers - the waterways which supplied the water races of the old goldfields in the west of the park. The initial land was set aside in 1938 due to the work of Mark Morton.

Due to its size the park features a number of landforms, climatic circumstances and habitats - sedgeland, woodland, heath and rainforests. The transition from one to another can be quite dramatic. There is a diversity of flora and fauna. There are wildflowers in abundance on the plateaux, giant turpentine trees below the major cliffs, coachwood and black ash in abundance and true rainforest canopy where the soil is richest. The park has numerous birds of prey, including hawks, wedge-tailed and other eagles, plus parrots, honeyeaters, lorikeets, crimson rosellas, cuckoos, cormorants, grebes, lyrebirds and two threatened species - the swamp parrot and eastern bristle bird. There are also macropods, bandicoots, the dunnart, possums, echidnae and dingoes, plus the marsupial mice, snakes and lizards upon which the predators feed.

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