Mulwaree Parish

The Parish of Mulwaree is a parish of Argyle County and former village and local government area. It is located on the western shore of Lake Bathurst, New South Wales.

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.

Significant features in the parish include:

The area has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because it regularly supports significant numbers of

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