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Illawarra is a region in the Australian state of New South Wales. It is a coastal region situated immediately south of Sydney and north of the Shoalhaven or South Coast region. It encompasses the cities of Wollongong, Shellharbour, the town of Kiama and the shire of Wingecarribee.
The Illawarra region is characterised by three distinct districts: the north-central district, which is a contiguous urban sprawl centred on Lake Illawarra; the western district defined by the Illawarra escarpment, which leads up to the south-west fringe of Greater Metropolitan Sydney including the Macarthur and Southern Highlands regions; and the southern district, which is historically semi-rural (area undefined), yet now defined by increasing urbanisation.
Illawarra may refer to:
- Illawarra, region in New South Wales, Australia
- Illawarra escarpment, south of Sydney, Australia
- Lake Illawarra, near Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
- MV Lake Illawarra, bulk carrier that collided with a pylon on Tasman Bridge in 1975
- Illawarra cattle, breed of dairy cattle
- Illawarra Mansion, home in Toorak, Victoria, Australia
- Illawarra Coke Company, in Coalcliff and Coledale, New South Wales, Australia
- Eastern Suburbs & Illawarra Line, a suburban railway line in Sydney, Australia
- South Coast railway line, New South Wales, an intercity railway line in New South Wales, Australia
- St George Illawarra Dragons, Australian rugby league football team
- Illawarra Steelers, the half of the St. George Illawarra Dragons (referred to above) joint venture that originates from the Illawarra region of New South Wales
- Ilawarra Flame Tree, a species of tree, Brachychiton acerifolius
- Illawarra (spider), a genus of spider
Usage examples of "illawarra".
Strings of tourist trains running over the Blue Mountains and the Great Zigzag, and up the coast to Gosford and Brisbane Water, and down the south coast to beautiful Illawarra, until after New Year.
Dorrigo, of the gullies of the Liverpool Range, in the Hunter River Valley, the tract of sub-tropical bush under the Illawarra Range, in the back country of Gippsland, and on the south-western corner of West Australia, must have attributed the falling of the leaves to some obscure agency-magical and fearful and at the command of the doctors or the priests-goes, I say, without question.
Plains in the days of their mastery, and from the edge of the Illawarra Range they saw the sight that we recognise as the most beautiful in the whole world.
Close on a thousand miles from Lake Illawarra to Adelaide, and in thirty-nine there were no roads-just wild bush.
His eldest son is to take his place and stand for election in one of the Illawarra seats.
She and her husband had ridden, in admittedly easy stages, from Sydney to the Illawarra, but, unaccustomed to such strenuous exercise, she was saddlesore and stiff, and the dray was comfortably cushioned, its occupants shielded by an awning from the glare of the sun.
It is the headquarters of the Bulli Mining Company, whose coal-mine on the flank of the Illawarra Mountains is worked by a tunnel, 2 m.
But there is an almighty difference between such land as this, and the rich lands on the coast rivers, down about Illawarra, and on the banks of the Hunter and Macleay.