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Newcastle, also commonly referred to as Greater Newcastle (locally / ˈ nj uː k ɑː s əl / NEW-kah-səl; Awabakal: Mulubinba) [4] is a large metropolitan area and the second-most-populous such area of New South Wales, Australia.
The City of Newcastle is a local government area in the Hunter region of New South Wales, Australia. The City of Newcastle incorporates much of the area of the Newcastle metropolitan area . The Lord Mayor of the City of Newcastle Council is Councillor Dr. Ross Kerridge , an Independent Labor politician elected under the team campaign banner ...
The standardisation of time in Australia began in 1892, when surveyors from the six colonies in Australia met in Melbourne for the Intercolonial Conference of Surveyors. . The delegates accepted the recommendation of the 1884 International Meridian Conference to adopt Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) as the basis for standard t
Newcastle is the world's largest coal export port and Australia's oldest and second largest tonnage throughput port, with over 3,000 shipping movements handling cargo of 93,000,000 tonnes (92,000,000 long tons; 103,000,000 short tons) per annum, of which coal exports represented 88,880,000 tonnes (87,480,000 long tons; 97,970,000 short tons) in ...
Significant sections of South Australia and New South Wales are unincorporated, that is, have no defined local government, along with the ACT and smaller sections of Northern Territory and Victoria. Brisbane is the only state capital city with its respective LGA ( City of Brisbane ) covering a significant portion of its urban area.
Nobbys Head (Aboriginal and dual name: Whibayganba [1] [4]) is a headland located on the southern entrance to Newcastle Harbour, New South Wales, Australia.The headland is situated above the Hunter River and the Tasman Sea of the South Pacific Ocean.
Merewether (/ ˈ m ɛ r ɪ ˌ w ɛ ð ər /) is a former Municipality and today a suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, located 3 km (2 mi) from Newcastle's central business district with a population of around 11,000. [2] The suburb stretches 3 km (2 mi) from Merewether Beach in the east to Adamstown in the west.
Toodyay (/ ˈ t uː dʒ eɪ /, Nyungar: Duidgee), known as Newcastle between 1860 and 1910, is a town on the Avon River in the Wheatbelt [2] [3] region of Western Australia, 85 kilometres (53 mi) north-east of Perth. The first European settlement occurred in the area in 1836.