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Wyong (/ ˈ w aɪ ɒ ŋ /) is a town on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia. It is located approximately 63 km SSW of Newcastle and 93 km NNE of the state capital Sydney . Established in 1888, it is one of the two administrative centres for the Central Coast Council local government area .
Satellite view of Australia's capital city, Canberra, whose name comes from a Ngunawal language word meaning "meeting place". Welcome sign from Murwillumbah, New South Wales. The name derives from the Bandjalang word meaning "camping place". Aboriginal names of suburbs of Brisbane, derived from the Turrbal language.
1982 – Gosford to Wyong; 1984 – Wyong to Newcastle; 1985 – Waterfall to Port Kembla. 1985 – Macarthur station opened; 1991 – Riverstone to Richmond; 1996 – Coniston to Dapto; 2002 – Dapto to Kiama [22] New electrified suburban and metro lines were built: 1926 – line from Central to St James station and Museum opened; 1931 ...
A pair of passing loops were added south of the station in 1948. In the 1950s, a new bridge was built over Wyong Creek immediately south of the station, with the old railway bridge becoming part of the Pacific Highway. [4] Between April 1982 [5] and June 1984, Wyong was the northern extremity of the electrified network. [6]
The main infrastructure achievements over the 180 years that connected Boorowa to the rest of the Colony included the first Post Office and mail service in 1835, the electric telegraph in 1866, voice telephone in 1906, electric street lighting in the 1920s by the towns own generator, later the town and consumers were connected to the Burrinjuck Hydro electricity system in 1938.
The Wallarah 2 Coal Project (or W2CP) is a proposal by the Korea Resources Corporation or KORES (owned by the South Korean government and other Korean and Japanese mining companies that comprise the Wyong Areas Coal Joint Venture) to construct a longwall mine near Wyong, New South Wales, Australia. The underground mine is now being considered ...
The latest study findings may feel a little unnerving, but Dr. Russo points out that this doesn’t mean the flu has suddenly changed. “This is something that’s been going on forever—we’re ...
Although many [who?] believed the name's origin was Aboriginal, with the old Wyong Shire council originally claiming it meant "hills surrounded by water", since Watanobbi was almost entirely surrounded by wetlands, the Geographic Names Board later confirmed there was no Aboriginal significance to the name, with the two most likely sources being a corruption of the Japanese surname Watanabe ...