title: Parish of Mulwaree
text: # Parish of Mulwaree
  
  The Parish of Mulwaree is a parish of Argyle County. It is located on the western shore of Lake Bathurst, New South Wales.
  
  ## History
  
  The area was traditional lands of the Ngunnawal people, but was also traversed by other tribes going to the coast or the Monaro during the Bogong moth season. Stone artefacts dating back 20,000 years have been found at nearby Lake George.
  
  The Lake Bathurst was discovered in April 1818 by an exploration commissioned by Governor Lachlan Macquarie to find a route from the inland to the settlement on the south coast at Jervis Bay that was headed by Surveyor General James Meehan. A village of Mulwaree was gazetted in the 19th century on the southern shore of Lake Bathurst, but failed to grow, moving 1½km to the west at the site of Tarago, on the main trainline.
  
  ## Geography
  
  Significant features in the parish include:
  
  * The Mulwaree River, a perennial river that is part of the Hawkesbury-Nepean catchment.
  * Lake Bathurst (New South Wales) on the northern boundary
  * Townships of Tarago and Lake Bathurst
  
  ## Ecology
  
  The area has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because it regularly supports significant numbers of
  
  * near threatened blue-billed ducks
  * Australasian shovellers.
  * freckled ducks,
  * black swans, chestnut teals and
  * sharp-tailed sandpipers.
  