Adaminaby is the name of a town in southern New South Wales,
Australia. This town was sacrificed for the common good in the
1950's when the waters of what is now Lake Eucumbene submerged it
forever. This lake was created during the construction of the Snowy
Mountains Scheme, a vast project of tunnels and dams that diverted
rivers originally flowing east, westwards to water the arid
interior of Australia. The story personifies this place as a
beautiful, generous and kind woman of the same name. Her spiritual
and earthly duty was to ensure the well being of the valley of
which she was the caretaker. The story is somewhat sad, as
inevitably Adaminaby must accept the white man's definition of
progress. The narrative is expressed in a mythical manner and pays
homage to the long-standing Australian tradition of story-telling
that extends from the dreamtime to the present day.
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