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Tarrawanna, New South Wales 
Summary
Tarrawanna is a northern suburb of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, extending westward from the Princes Highway over the Illawarra Escarpment. Tarrawanna's main street Meadow Street has a few shops including cafes, a brewery, a Thai restaurant, a post office, a fish and chips shop and a grocer.
| Tarrawanna Wollongong, New South Wales | |||||||||||||||
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 Overlooking Tarrawanna (bottom right) and surrounding suburbs from the west. | |||||||||||||||
  Tarrawanna | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 34°22.7′S 150°53.3′E / 34.3783°S 150.8883°E | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 2,069 (2016 census)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 2518 | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation | 21 m (69 ft) | ||||||||||||||
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| LGA(s) | City of Wollongong | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Keira | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Cunningham | ||||||||||||||
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Education edit
Tarrawanna has a primary school, Tarrawanna Public School on Kendall Street.
Culture edit
Seminal Australian grunge band The Proton Energy Pills named its 2003 anthology "Rocket To Tarrawanna" in honour of the suburb where its members lived and met.
References edit
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Tarrawanna (State Suburb)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
External links edit
- http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/resources/cultureheritage/illawarraAboriginalHistoryPoster.pdf
- https://web.archive.org/web/20080721031255/http://www.southerncouncils.nsw.gov.au/vegetation/p579.html vegetation
- https://web.archive.org/web/20080720061453/http://southerncouncils.nsw.gov.au/vegetation/bellambi.htm map with vegetation marked
- https://web.archive.org/web/20080606182717/http://www.wollongong.nsw.gov.au/Residents/1048.asp Tarrawanna Community Hall
- http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20090519005046/http://wcc.wollongong.nsw.gov.au/PolicyRegister/TP%2095.6%20Foothills%20View%20Estate%20Tarrawanna.pdf