The Kiandra Snow Shoe Club was founded in an abandoned gold mining town that was earlier called Gibson's plains, named after who?
Kiandra, New South Wales Kiandra is an abandoned gold mining town and the birthplace of Australian skiing. The town is situated in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales, Australia, in the Snowy Monaro Regional Council inside the Kosciuszko National Park. Its name is a corruption of Aboriginal 'Gianderra' for 'sharp stones for knives'. It was earlier called Gibson's Plains, named after Dr. Gibson, a settler in the district in 1839. For a century (until the establishment of Cabramurra), Kiandra was Australia's highest town.
Cudal, New South Wales Cudal is a town in the Central West region of New South Wales, Australia. Cudal is in the Cabonne Shire Council local government area, 296 km west of the state capital, Sydney. The town was first surveyed in 1867. Running through the town is "Boree Creek". The place name, "Cudal", could have derived from an Aboriginal word meaning 'flat'. At the 2011 census , Cudal had a population of 339. Industry and commerce in Cudal is a mixture of retail, government services, and agriculture (sheep, canola).