Tarrawanna
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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 | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | New South Wales | ||||||||||||
| City | Wollongong | ||||||||||||
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| Elevation | 21 m (69 ft) | ||||||||||||
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| • Total | 2,184 (2021 census) | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 2518 | ||||||||||||
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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 barber shop, a fish and chips shop and a grocer.
Education
Tarrawanna has a primary school, Tarrawanna Public School on Kendall Street.
Culture
The Australian stoner rock band Tumbleweed was formed in Tarrawanna in 1990.
Seminal Australian punk rock band The Proton Energy Pills named its 2003 anthology "Rocket To Tarrawanna" in honour of the suburb where its members lived and met.
References
- ↑ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Tarrawanna (State Suburb)". 2021 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 30 July 2024.
- ↑ "Whammo Homepage". www.whammo.com.au. Archived from the original on 28 August 2004. Retrieved 14 September 2025.
External links
- 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
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