The Kiandra Snow Shoe Club was founded in an abandoned gold mining town that was earlier called Gibson's plains, named after who?
Kiandra Snow Shoe Club The Kiandra Snow Shoe Club was founded in the gold-mining district of Kiandra, New South Wales (NSW), Australia by three Norwegians—as early as 1861 by some accounts— and reportedly became the "world's longest continuously running ski club" as it evolved into the present-day Kiandra Pioneer Ski Club in Perisher Valley, NSW. Whether the club is the first of its kind has been subject to debate. In this case, "snow shoe" is an archaic term for "ski".
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).