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SydneyCity Library Broken Hill City Library The public libraries in New South Wales are operated by local councils, in some cases cooperatively as "regional libraries". [ 9 ] There are 89 library services which operate more than 350 public libraries across the state. [ 10 ]
History of Wollongong Post and Telegraph Service and the 149 year old building at 11 Market Street, Wollongong. Howard, Rod (2001). North Beach Surf Club Management Plan. Kass, Terry (2010). A Thematic History of the City of Wollongong. Organ, Michael (1993). Illawarra and South Coast Aboriginies 1770-1900. Rogers, Brian (1988).
Wollongong (/ ˈ w ʊ l ə n ɡ ɒ ŋ / WUUL-ən-gong; Dharawal: Woolyungah) is a city located in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia.The name is believed to originate from the Dharawal language, meaning either 'five islands/clouds', 'ground near water' or 'sound of the sea'. [3]
This is listing of the suburbs and localities in the greater Wollongong metropolitan area in alphabetical order. Suburbs are listed here if they are inside the Wollongong metropolitan area and are listed in the Geographical Names Register as suburbs or localities, with some exclusions. (Excl.) For this list the Wollongong metropolitan area is considered to be the Australian Bureau of ...
It has received major funding from the University of Melbourne Library, the University of Wollongong Library, the UNSW Library and Flinders’ Central Library, but as of 2018 it needed to raise A$200,00 per annum to maintain the resource, so additional donations by university libraries and individual donors were being sought.
The name Tertangala was thought to mean "smoke signals" in an Indigenous language. [1] The name originated when the University of Wollongong was a campus of UNSW, and was chosen to correspond with its then-sister paper Tharunka, whose name was thought to mean "message stick" [1] However, an investigation in 2000 found that Tertangala was simply a nonsense word and had no roots in any recorded ...
The earliest reference to Wollongong was in 1826, in a report written by John Oxley, about the local cedar industry. The area's first school was established in 1833, and just one year later the Surveyor-General arrived from Sydney to lay out the township of Wollongong on property owned by Charles Throsby-Smith.
Wongawilli is a southern suburb of Wollongong, Australia at the foot hills of the Illawarra escarpment. The word "Wonga" is a native Aboriginal word meaning native pigeon. [2] It contains a mixture of small rural properties and family homes.