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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.
The Wyong River is a perennial river that is located in the Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia. ... "Lake Macquarie & Tuggerah Lakes catchments" (map).
The name derives from the aboriginal words, "Yarraman," meaning horse, and "long" meaning place. [4] Yarraman is thought to be derived from the word "yira" or "yera" which means large teeth, possibly from one of the Sydney languages. The Yarramalong Valley was first permanently settled by in 1856 by the Stinson and Waters families of Maitland.
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 ...
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 ...
Wyong Shire was a local government area located in the Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia.The incorporation of the Wyong area dates back to 7 March 1906 when the entire area of the Brisbane Water Police District outside of the Town of Gosford was proclaimed as the Erina Shire.
Wyong Creek is a suburb of the Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia. It is part of the Central Coast Council local government area . In the 2021 census , Wyong Creek had a population of 476 people.