Tambar Springs is a town in the North West Slopes

North West Slopes (New South Wales)

The North West Slopes region of New South Wales, Australia refers generally to the area west of the Northern Tablelands, to the north of the Central West region and to the east of the Far West region. The region corresponds generally to the Australian Bureau of Meteorology's forecast area of...

 region of New South Wales

New South Wales

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, Australia. The town is in the Gunnedah Shire Council

Gunnedah Shire Council

Gunnedah Shire is a local government area in the North West Slopes region of New South Wales, Australia. The Shire is situated 264 metres above sea level on the Liverpool Plains in the Namoi River valley. It is traversed by the Oxley Highway and the Kamilaroi Highway.The Shire is very flat;...

 Local Government area, 417 kilometres (259.1 mi) north west of the state capital, Sydney

Sydney

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. At the 2006 census

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, Tambar Springs and the surrounding area had a population of 201.

Tambar Springs was opened up for grazing in the 1830s. Closer settlement began in 1868 and the village was proclaimed twenty years later in 1888. Tambar Springs claims to have the earliest memorial to World War I servicemen in Australia. The memorial was erected in December 1918 at a total cost of ₤

Australian pound

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400.

In addition, Tambar Springs also had the largest number of men per capita enlisted in the army in the commonwealth, over both world wars.

Nearby Tambar Springs is a significant palaeontology site; a typical Pleistocene

Pleistocene

The Pleistocene is the epoch from 2,588,000 to 11,700 years BP that spans the world's recent period of repeated glaciations. The name pleistocene is derived from the Greek and ....

 assemblage. Between 1979 and 1984, the Australian Museum

Australian Museum

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 excavated a complete Diprotodon

Diprotodon

Diprotodon, meaning "two forward teeth", sometimes known as the Giant Wombat or the Rhinoceros Wombat, was the largest known marsupial that ever lived...

skeleton as well as a pelvis and femur.