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1966: Harnessing the Power of "The Snowies" | Looking at Australia | BBC Archive
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19:37Now PlayingLooking at Australia is a geography series for twelve-to-fourteen-year-olds, this edition is about the Snowy Mountains in New South Wales. The Snowy Mountains are the highest mountain range in Australia, and - because they are the only part of Australia where snow reliably forms - a popular destination for skiing holidays in the winter. Each spring, the snow melts, creating vast quantities of that most valuable Australian commodity, water.
Keith Alexander looks at how this seasonal abundance of water is controlled and manipulated using a series of dams and tunnels, to provide irrigation and hydroelectric power.
Clip taken from Looking at Australia: The Snowy, originally broadcast on BBC One, 24 May, 1966.
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