nome timor na austrália nsw

What is the story behind the naming of Timor Rock, west of Coonabarrabran, on the way to Siding Spring Observatory along Timor road? The local government parish is also named Timor. Timor Rock, a dominant feature of the parish is the remains of a volcanic plug – one of three ancient long extinct volcanoes that make up the Warrumbungle Mountains.

(In another region of NSW, east of Murrurundi, along another Timor road, there is the “virtually non-existent village of Timor which has an attractive little timber church, St Peters, built of pit-sawn timber by voluntary labour in 1883” . Located close by are the Timor Caves, a series of unguided limestone caverns which are estimated to be around 73.5 million years old.)