Avon Dam
The Avon Dam is a gravity dam across the Avon River, located at Avon, in the New South Wales Southern Highlands, Australia. It is one of four dams and weirs in the catchment of the Upper Nepean Scheme, providing water to the Macarthur and Illawarra regions, the Wollondilly Shire, and metropolitan Sydney.Photo: Knows, Public domain.
Avon Dam
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: dam in Wingecarribee LGA, New South Wales
- Categories: dam and tourism
- Location: Wingecarribee Shire, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-34.35114° or 34° 21′ 4″ southLongitude
150.64137° or 150° 38′ 29″ eastElevation
326 metres (1,070 feet)Open location code
4RQGJJXR+GGOpenStreetMap ID
node 6594368785OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Urdu—“Avon Dam” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Avon Dam (alihan sa tubig sa Awstralya)”
- Cebuano: “Avon Dam”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سد افون”
- French: “Barrage d’Avon”
- German: “Avon-Talsperre”
- Italian: “diga di Avon”
- Swedish: “Avon Dam (dammbyggnad i Australien)”
- Swedish: “Avon Dam”
- Urdu: “ایوان ڈیم”
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