Tingira Heights
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  Tingira Heights | |||||||||||||
| Coordinates: 32°59′46″S 151°39′36″E / 32.996°S 151.660°E | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | New South Wales | ||||||||||||
| City | Greater Newcastle | ||||||||||||
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| Established | 1960s | ||||||||||||
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• Total | 4.2 km2 (1.6 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
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| • Total | 2,043 (2021 census)[2] | ||||||||||||
| • Density | 486/km2 (1,260/sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 2290 | ||||||||||||
| Parish | Kahibah | ||||||||||||
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Tingira Heights is a suburb of City of Lake Macquarie in New South Wales, Australia, 16 kilometres (10 mi) south-west of Newcastle's central business district on the eastern side of Lake Macquarie. It was developed in the 1960s.
History
[edit]The Awabakal are the traditional people of this area.[3]
Prior to 1965, the suburb was called Violet Town. A ship named after the Indigenous tribe Tingira (on the NSW/QLD border) was Australia's first naval training vessel in 1912 and was decommissioned in 1941. In 1965 the H.M.A.S Tingira Old Boys Association asked to have a town named after the ship, and the name was adopted by the Violet Town Progress Association. Tingara is an alternative spelling.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Tingira Heights (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Tingira Heights". 2021 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 21 July 2023.
- ^ "Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people". Lake Macquarie City Council. Retrieved 8 September 2020.
- ^ Pioneers & Settlers of Lake Macquarie, by the Lake Macquarie Family History Group Inc.Priner by LMCC2006
External links
[edit]- History of Tingira Heights (Lake Macquarie City Library)
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