Tarrawanna, New South Wales
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 Overlooking Tarrawanna (bottom right) and surrounding suburbs from the west. | |||||||||||||
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| Coordinates: 34°22.7′S 150°53.3′E / 34.3783°S 150.8883°E | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | New South Wales | ||||||||||||
| City | Wollongong | ||||||||||||
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| Elevation | 21 m (69 ft) | ||||||||||||
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| • Total | 2,184 (2021 census)[2] | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 2518 | ||||||||||||
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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]The Australian stoner rock band Tumbleweed was formed in Tarrawanna in 1990.[3]
Seminal Australian punk rock 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 (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Tarrawanna (State Suburb)". 2021 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 30 July 2024.
- ^ "Whammo Homepage". www.whammo.com.au. Archived from the original on 28 August 2004. Retrieved 14 September 2025.
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
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