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Bunnings Group Limited, trading as Bunnings Warehouse or Bunnings, is an Australian household hardware and garden centre chain. [2] The chain has been owned by Wesfarmers since 1994, and has stores in Australia and New Zealand.
Bellambi (/ b ɛ l æ m b i /) is a suburb of Wollongong in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia. It has a railway station (opened 1889) [2] on the NSW TrainLink South Coast Line. Bellambi is situated directly north of Corrimal and east of Russell Vale. It has a beach, Bellambi Beach, on the Wollongong to Thirroul Bike Track.
The Illawarra region is characterised by three distinct districts: the north-central district, which is a contiguous urban sprawl centred on Lake Illawarra, the western district defined by the Illawarra escarpment, which leads up to the fringe of Greater Metropolitan Sydney including the Macarthur in the northwest, and to the Southern Highlands ...
Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, is Australia's tenth largest city 82 km south of Sydney, in a part of the NSW South Coast known as the Illawarra. Usage note: In Australia, "suburbs" are the official postal subdivisions of a city.
On early maps, it was originally known as Towroger, according to Henderson's Early Illawarra. On 26 March 1796, just south of Towradgi Point, George Bass and Matthew Flinders, along with their young helper Martin made an attempted landing on the coast. At the same time, European settlers became the first to set foot on the soil of the Illawarra.
Commercial developments here include many home furnishing retailers such as Nick Scali Furniture, large retailers including Bunnings, as well as home renovation showrooms. The main shopping centre is located close to Caringbah railway station and is centred on the intersections of President Avenue, The Kingsway and Port Hacking Road South.
ANL were involved in the 1975 Tasman Bridge disaster in Hobart, Tasmania, as the owner/operator of the Lake Illawarra, the bulk carrier which collided with the bridge, and consequently sank. ANL announced that Australian Trader would be withdrawn from service, being replaced by a new freight only ship named Bass Trader.
The Illawarra line commences at the Illawarra Junction just south of Redfern station. Here, a dive-under allows inter-city services from the Illawarra line to cross underneath the main suburban railway lines to access Sydney Terminal. [21] From the Illawarra junction, four tracks head south through the stations of Erskineville and St Peters to ...