Tarrawanna, New South Wales
Appearance
Tarrawanna Wollongong, New South Wales | |||||||||||||||
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Overlooking Tarrawanna (bottom right) and surrounding suburbs from the west. | |||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 34°22.7′S 150°53.3′E / 34.3783°S 150.8883°E | ||||||||||||||
Population | 2,184 (2021 census)[1] | ||||||||||||||
Postcode(s) | 2518 | ||||||||||||||
Elevation | 21 m (69 ft) | ||||||||||||||
Location |
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LGA(s) | City of Wollongong | ||||||||||||||
State electorate(s) | Keira | ||||||||||||||
Federal division(s) | Cunningham | ||||||||||||||
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Tarrawanna is a northern suburb of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, extending westward from the Princes Highway over the Illawarra Escarpment. Tarrawanna's main street Meadow Street has a few shops including cafes, a brewery, a Thai restaurant, a post office, a fish and chips shop and a grocer.
Education
[edit]Tarrawanna has a primary school, Tarrawanna Public School on Kendall Street.
Culture
[edit]Seminal Australian grunge band The Proton Energy Pills named its 2003 anthology "Rocket To Tarrawanna" in honour of the suburb where its members lived and met.
References
[edit]- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Tarrawanna (State Suburb)". 2021 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 30 July 2024.
External links
[edit]- http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/resources/cultureheritage/illawarraAboriginalHistoryPoster.pdf
- https://web.archive.org/web/20080721031255/http://www.southerncouncils.nsw.gov.au/vegetation/p579.html vegetation
- https://web.archive.org/web/20080720061453/http://southerncouncils.nsw.gov.au/vegetation/bellambi.htm map with vegetation marked
- https://web.archive.org/web/20080606182717/http://www.wollongong.nsw.gov.au/Residents/1048.asp Tarrawanna Community Hall
- http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20090519005046/http://wcc.wollongong.nsw.gov.au/PolicyRegister/TP%2095.6%20Foothills%20View%20Estate%20Tarrawanna.pdf