What is Adaminaby?
{{Infobox Australian place | type = town | name = Adaminaby | state = nsw | image = Adaminaby_main_street.jpg | caption = Main street of Adaminaby, New South Wales | lga = Snowy Monaro Regional Council | postcode = 2629 | pop = 301 | pop_year = {{CensusAU|2016}} | pop_footnotes= <ref name=Census>{{Census 2016 AUS|id=SSC10015|name=Adaminaby (State Suburb)|accessdate=6 July 2017|quick=on}}</ref> | elevation= 1017 | coordinates = {{coord|35|59|46|S|148|46|26|E|display=inline,title}} | established = | county = [[Wallace County, New South Wales|Wallace]] | stategov = [[Electoral district of Monaro|Monaro]] | fedgov = [[Division of Eden-Monaro|Eden-Monaro]] | dist1 = 402 | location1= [[Sydney, New South Wales|Sydney]] | dist2 = 140 | location2= [[Canberra]] | dist3 = 52 | location3= [[Cooma, New South Wales|Cooma]] <ref>[http://www.travelmate.com.au/MapMaker/MapMaker.asp Distances calculated using Travelmate Map Maker] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070325000000/http://www.travelmate.com.au/MapMaker/MapMaker.asp |date=25 March 2007 }}</ref> }} '''Adaminaby''' ({{coord|35|59|S|148|46|E|type:city(200)_region:AU-NSW}}) is a [[town]] in southeast [[New South Wales]], [[Australia]] on the [[Snowy Mountains Highway]]. The first town of Adaminaby was in the way of a new dam built on the [[Eucumbene River]] as part of the [[Snowy Mountains Scheme]]. In 1957 more than 100 buildings were relocated to a new site 10 kilometres away where they would not be [[flood]]ed.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.snowymountains.com.au/Adaminaby.html |title=Adaminaby |publisher=www.snowymountains.com.au |access-date=2009-04-28 |archive-date=2007-04-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070430063619/http://www.snowymountains.com.au/Adaminaby.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> The name, Adaminaby is an [[Indigenous Australian|Aboriginal]] word meaning a camp, or a resting place.<ref name=gnb/> The town first started during the gold rush to Kiandra, New South Wales|Kiandra in 1860. It