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From: "Purified Honey Bee" <>
Subject: Re: Lake Illawarra
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 16:41:04 +1000
References: <015201c1a7a0$f7146740$3f4c8890@nsw.bigpond.net.au>


Can't say I know for sure, but I would imagine that that could very well be
correct. As with everything else, usually; the name has covered a very wide
area. Look at Joadja for example, it is a large area, but also referred to
as a town, even if the town is now a ghost town.

I looked up the following website http://www.lpi.nsw.gov.au/geog/search/

and have found this, which MIGHT be of assistance, but then again.

PLACENAME: LAKE ILLAWARRA
DESIGNATION: LAGOON
STATUS: ASSIGNED 7th September 1973
PREVIOUS NAME: ILLAWARRA LAKE
LOCAL COUNCIL: WOLLONGONG
APPROX. AGD66 LAT: -34 31 30
APPROX. AGD66 LONG: 150 50 00
APPROX. GDA94 LAT: -34 31 24
APPROX. GDA94 LONG: 150 50 04
AGD66 TOPO MAP: ALBION PARK
1:100000 MAP: KIAMA 9028
PARISH: WOLLONGONG
COUNTY: CAMDEN
DESCRIPTION: A lagoon about 5 km SE of Dapto and about 6 km SW by W of
Port Kembla.
ORIGIN: An adaptation of an Aboriginal word Elouera, Eloura or Allowrie
variously translated as pleasant place near the sea, or, high place near the
sea, or, white clay mountain. Wurra or Warra probably means mountain and
Illa may be white clay. (Reed, 1969).
HISTORY: George Bass and Matthew Flinders were the first to visit the
district. Flinders recorded the fact that it was called Alowrie by the
natives. It was whilethey were in the tiny 8ft craft the Tom Thumb in 1796.



PLACENAME: LAKE ILLAWARRA
DESIGNATION: SUBURB
STATUS: ASSIGNED 12th January 1996
PREVIOUS NAME: LAKE ILLAWARRA SOUTH
GNB FILE: GNB229,2535
LOCAL COUNCIL: SHELLHARBOUR
APPROX. AGD66 LAT: -34 32 40
APPROX. AGD66 LONG: 150 51 30
APPROX. GDA94 LAT: -34 32 34
APPROX. GDA94 LONG: 150 51 34
AGD66 TOPO MAP: ALBION PARK
1:100000 MAP: KIAMA 9028
PARISH: TERRAGONG
COUNTY: CAMDEN
DESCRIPTION: A suburb on the southern bank of the entrance to Lake
Illawarra. It is bounded on the east by the Tasman Sea and adjoins Warilla
on the south Boundaries and names in Shellharbour shown on map GNB2535. Old
boundaries shown on map GNB 229. Boundaries then shown on map marked GNB
2535C.

Lavinia

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