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Vincentia is a town in New South Wales, Australia in the City of Shoalhaven, on the shores of Jervis Bay. It is roughly 25 kilometres (16 mi) southeast of Nowra , and approximately 200 kilometres (120 mi) south of Sydney .
The land south of Moona Moona Creek—now Vincentia—was the site of the settlement of South Huskisson, founded in 1841 as a seaport and terminus of The Wool Road. South Huskisson lay on land originally owned by Edward Deas Thompson [ 17 ] and was a ‘private town’.
Vincentia High School is a government-funded co-educational comprehensive secondary day school, located in the town of Vincentia in the South Coast region of New South Wales, Australia. The school is located adjacent to Jervis Bay .
Vincentia, New South Wales, town in ... Vicenza, city in northern Italy; Organisms. Vincentia, a genus of fishes; Vincentia, ... Wikipedia® is a registered ...
The Wool Road (also later known as 'The Old Wool Road') was a historic road in New South Wales, Australia, that ran from Nerriga to what is now called Vincentia on Jervis Bay. It was constructed privately in 1841, using convict labour. Its purpose was to provide a shorter route to a seaport for wool grown at Braidwood and beyond.
Category includes towns on or near the coast of New South Wales south of the Shoalhaven River (note that the Electoral district of South Coast includes all of the City of Shoalhaven south of the Shoalhaven River).
The Illawarra Steam Navigation Company serviced the South Coast and Illawarra by ship transporting passengers and goods from the 1850s to the 1950s.. The NSW TrainLink Illawarra railway line services Berry before it terminates at Bomaderry, situated approximately 123 km south of Sydney on the northern side of the Shoalhaven River.
Banksia vincentia is known from a single population of plants—14 at time of discovery and now down to 12 individual shrubs. [3] Some of the threats faced by the plant include: impact of road maintenance on highly restricted population, degradation of habitats from increasing urbanization, poor knowledge of the species' distribution and potential abundance, habitat invasion by weeds and ...