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Wollongong, informally referred to as "The Gong", is a seaside city located in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia. [1]

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A-League

The A-League is a professional men's soccer league run by Football Federation Australia (FFA).

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Adit

An adit (from Latin aditus, entrance) is an entrance to an underground mine which is horizontal or nearly horizontal, by which the mine can be entered, drained of water, ventilated, and minerals extracted at the lowest convenient level.

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Albion Park Rail, New South Wales

Albion Park Rail is a suburb of Shellharbour, Australia situated in the Macquarie Valley (Shellharbour).

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Albion Park, New South Wales

Albion Park is a suburb situated in the Macquarie Valley in the City of Shellharbour, which is in turn one of the three local government areas that comprise the Wollongong Metropolitan Area, New South Wales, Australia.

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Alluvium

Alluvium (from the Latin alluvius, from alluere, "to wash against") is loose, unconsolidated (not cemented together into a solid rock) soil or sediments, which has been eroded, reshaped by water in some form, and redeposited in a non-marine setting.

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Anglo-Celtic Australians

Anglo-Celtic Australians are Australians whose ancestors originate wholly or partially in the countries of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland.

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Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.

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Aunty Jack Sings Wollongong

Aunty Jack Sings Wollongong is an album released in 1974, as a spin-off from the cult ABC Television show Aunty Jack.

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Australia national cricket team

The Australia national cricket team is the joint oldest team in Test cricket history, having played in the first ever Test match in 1877.

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Australian Bureau of Statistics

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is the independent statistical agency of the Government of Australia.

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Bald Hill (Australia)

Bald Hill is a hill on the Illawarra Range, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

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Bellambi, New South Wales

Bellambi is a suburb of Wollongong in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia.

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BHP

BHP, formerly known as BHP Billiton, is the trading entity of BHP Billiton Limited and BHP Billiton plc, an Anglo-Australian multinational mining, metals and petroleum dual-listed public company headquartered in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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BlueScope

BlueScope is a flat product steel producer with operations in Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Islands, North America, and Asia.

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Bomaderry, New South Wales

Bomaderry is a town in the Shoalhaven council district area of New South Wales, Australia.

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Bondi Icebergs Club

The Bondi Icebergs Swimming Club is an Australian winter swimmers club, located at the southern end of Bondi Beach in Sydney, New South Wales.

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Bosnian Australians

Bosnian Australians are Australian citizens of Bosnian ancestry or Bosnia and Herzegovina-born people who reside in Australia.

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Brett Lee

Brett Lee (born 8 November 1976) is a former Australian international cricketer, who played all three formats of the game.

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Brokers Nose

Brokers Point or Brokers Nose or Corrimal Peak or Brokers Peak, is a point on the Illawarra Range, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

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Bulli Pass

Bulli Pass is a mountain pass with an elevation of located northwest of, New South Wales, Australia.

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Bureau of Meteorology

The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) is an Executive Agency of the Australian Government responsible for providing weather services to Australia and surrounding areas.

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Central business district

A central business district (CBD) is the commercial and business centre of a city.

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Charles, Prince of Wales

Charles, Prince of Wales (Charles Philip Arthur George; born 14 November 1948) is the heir apparent to the British throne as the eldest child of Queen Elizabeth II.

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Chilean Australians

Chilean Australians are Australians of Chilean descent or Chileans who have obtained Australian citizenship.

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Chinese Australians

Chinese Australians are Australian citizens of Chinese ancestry.

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Church Street, Wollongong

Church Street is a main north-south running street in the city of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.

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City of Shellharbour

The City of Shellharbour is a local government area in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia.

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City of Wollongong

The City of Wollongong is a local government area in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia.

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Clifton, New South Wales

Clifton is a village on the coast of New South Wales, Australia, between Sydney and Wollongong.

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Coniston, New South Wales

Coniston is a suburb of Wollongong in New South Wales.

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Cringila, New South Wales

Cringila is a densely populated southern suburb in the city of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.

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Croatian Australians

Croatian Australians (Australski Hrvati) are Australian citizens of Croatian descent.

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Crown Street, Wollongong

Crown Street is the main street in the city of Wollongong, New South Wales.

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Dapto, New South Wales

Dapto is a suburb of Wollongong in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia, located on the western side of Lake Illawarra and covering an area 7.15 square kilometres in size.

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Daylight saving time in Australia

The choice of whether to use daylight saving time (DST) in Australia is a matter for the individual states and territories.

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Diana, Princess of Wales

Diana, Princess of Wales (born Diana Frances Spencer; 1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997) was a member of the British royal family.

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Dion's Bus Service

Dion's Bus Service is an Australian bus company operating services in Wollongong.

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Division of Cunningham

The Division of Cunningham is an Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales.

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Division of Whitlam

The Division of Whitlam is an Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales.

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Edmund Rice College

Edmund Rice College is a Roman Catholic school located in Glengormley, County Antrim.

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Electricity generation

Electricity generation is the process of generating electric power from sources of primary energy.

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Figtree, New South Wales

Figtree is an inner western suburb of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.

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Filipino Australians

Filipino Australians (Filipino: Pilipino-Australyano) are Australians of Filipino ancestry.

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Fine art

In European academic traditions, fine art is art developed primarily for aesthetics or beauty, distinguishing it from applied art, which also has to serve some practical function, such as pottery or most metalwork.

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Five Islands Nature Reserve

The Five Islands Nature Reserve is a protected nature reserve located in the Tasman Sea, off the Illawarra east coast of the state of New South Wales, Australia.

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Flagstaff Hill Fort

Flagstaff Hill Fort is a former military fort at Flagstaff Point, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.

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George Bass

George Bass (30 January 1771 – after 5 February 1803) was a British naval surgeon and explorer of Australia.

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German Australians

German Australians (Deutsch-Australier) are Australian citizens of ethnic German ancestry.

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Grand Pacific Drive

The Grand Pacific Drive is scenic drive in Australia.

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Greek Australians

Greek Australians (Ελληνοαυστραλοί) comprise Australian citizens who have full or partial Greek heritage or people who sought asylum as refugees after the Greek Civil War or emigrated from Greece and reside in Australia.

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Group 7 Rugby League

South Coast Group 7 Rugby League (or Group 7 Rugby League for simplicity) is the divisional boundary drawn from the Southern Illawarra and South Coast regions (from the town of Warilla south to Batemans Bay) of New South Wales, Australia and is governed by the NSWCRL. The main competition, (named South Coast Group 7 VB First Grade for sponsorship reasons), comprises eight (10) teams from across the region. In 2011 the competition won't feature a team from central Shoalhaven for the first time in a long time. Group 7 Rugby League also administers Reserve Grade, Third Grade and Under-18's competitions, as well as looking over many junior competitions.

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Gwynneville, New South Wales

Gwynneville is an inner city suburb of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia located approximately 2 km north west of the city centre.

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Hail

Hail is a form of solid precipitation.

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Harold Matthews Cup

The NSWRL Harold Matthews Cup is a junior rugby league competition played in New South Wales between teams made up of players aged under 16.

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Helensburgh, New South Wales

Helensburgh is a small town in New South Wales, Australia.

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HMAS Wollongong

Three ships of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) have been named HMAS Wollongong, after the city of Wollongong, New South Wales.

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Hockey Dad

Hockey Dad is an Australian surf rock band from Windang, New South Wales, Australia.

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Humid subtropical climate

A humid subtropical climate is a zone of climate characterized by hot and humid summers, and mild to cool winters.

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Illawarra

Illawarra is a region in the Australian state of New South Wales.

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Illawarra escarpment

The Illawarra escarpment, or officially the Illawarra Range, is the fold-created cliffs and plateau-eroded outcrop mountain range west of the Illawarra coastal plain south of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

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Illawarra Grammar School

The Illawarra Grammar School (TIGS) is an independent, Anglican, co-educational day school located at Mangerton in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia.

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Illawarra Hawks

The Illawarra Hawks are an Australian professional basketball team based in Wollongong, New South Wales.

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Illawarra Highway

The Illawarra Highway is a state highway in New South Wales, Australia.

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Illawarra Institute of TAFE

TAFE NSW The Illawarra Institute (TII) now forms part of TAFE NSW, the largest training and education provider in Australia.

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Illawarra Regional Airport

Illawarra Regional Airport (or Wollongong Airport) is an airport located in Albion Park Rail, southwest of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.

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Illawarra RLFC

The Illawarra Rugby League Football Club were an Australian rugby league football club based in Illawarra formed in 2012.

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Illawarra Rugby League

The Illawarra Rugby League is a rugby league competition in Wollongong, NSW.

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Illawarra Sports High School

Illawarra Sports High School formerly Berkeley High School is a high school located in Berkeley, New South Wales, Australia.

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Illawarra Steelers

The Illawarra Steelers are an Australian Rugby league football club based in the city of Wollongong, New South Wales.

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Illawarriors

The Illawarriors are a rugby union franchise based in the Illawarra, New South Wales, Australia controlled by the Illawarra Rugby Union.

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Illowra Battery

Illowra Battery is a former Australian Army coastal-artillery battery located at Port Kembla, New South Wales in Australia, built and in service during World War II.

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Indian Australians

Indian Australians are Australians of Indian descent or heritage.

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Indigenous Australians

Indigenous Australians are the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia, descended from groups that existed in Australia and surrounding islands prior to British colonisation.

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Inner city

The inner city or inner town is the central area of a major city or metropolis.

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Intrust Super Premiership NSW

The Intrust Super Premiership NSW is a rugby league competition for clubs in New South Wales previously known as the New South Wales Cup, and NSWRL Premier League.

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Ireland cricket team

The Ireland cricket team represents all of Ireland.

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J. K. Rowling

Joanne Rowling, ("rolling";Rowling, J.K. (16 February 2007).. Accio Quote (accio-quote.org). Retrieved 28 April 2008. born 31 July 1965), writing under the pen names J. K. Rowling and Robert Galbraith, is a British novelist, philanthropist, film and television producer and screenwriter best known for writing the Harry Potter fantasy series.

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Kawasaki, Kanagawa

is a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

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Kiama, New South Wales

Kiama is a coastal town 120 kilometres south of Sydney in the Illawarra.

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Lake Illawarra

Lake Illawarra (Aboriginal Tharawal language: various adaptions of Elouera, Eloura, or Allowrie; Illa, Wurra, or Warra meaning pleasant place near the sea, or, high place near the sea, or, white clay mountain), an open and trained intermediate wave dominated barrier estuary or large coastal lagoon, is located in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, situated about south of Sydney, Australia.

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Lawrence Hargrave

Lawrence Hargrave, MRAeS, (29 January 18506 July 1915) was an Australian engineer, explorer, astronomer, inventor and aeronautical pioneer.

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Lawrence Hargrave Drive

Lawrence Hargrave Drive is a scenic coastal road and popular tourist drive connecting the northernmost suburbs of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia to both Wollongong and Sydney.

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Lightning

Lightning is a sudden electrostatic discharge that occurs typically during a thunderstorm.

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List of cities in Australia by population

This list of Australian cities by population provides rankings of Australian cities according to various systems defined by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

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List of tallest buildings in Wollongong

This is a list of the tallest buildings in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.

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List of Wollongong suburbs

This is listing of the suburbs and localities in the greater Wollongong metropolitan area in alphabetical order.

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Local government in Australia

Local government in Australia is the third tier of government in Australia administered by the states and territories, which in turn are beneath the federal tier.

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Longyan

Longyan (Hakka: Liùng-ngàm) is a prefecture-level city in southwestern Fujian province, People's Republic of China, bordering Guangdong to the south and Jiangxi to the west.

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MacCabe Park

MacCabe Park is a small park located in the City of Wollongong, Australia.

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Macedonian Australians

Macedonian Australians are Australians of ethnic Macedonian descent.

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Macquarie Pass

Macquarie Pass is an eight-kilometre-long section of the Illawarra Highway passing through Macquarie Pass National Park.

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Macquarie Rivulet

Macquarie Rivulet is a perennial river located in the Southern Highlands and Illawarra regions of New South Wales, Australia.

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Manildra Group

The Manildra Group is an Australian agribusiness based in Sydney.

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Matthew Flinders

Captain Matthew Flinders (16 March 1774 – 19 July 1814) was an English navigator and cartographer, who was the leader of the first circumnavigation of Australia and identified it as a continent.

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Mount Keira

Mount Keira is a suburb and mountain in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia.

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Mount Kembla

Mount Kembla is a suburb and a mountain in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia.

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Mount Murray (New South Wales)

Mount Murray is a mountain in New South Wales, Australia with an elevation of 780 metres above sea level.

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Mount Ousley, New South Wales

Mount Ousley is a residential suburb situated on the foothills of Mount Keira about four kilometres northwest from the city of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.

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Municipality of Kiama

The Municipality of Kiama is a local government area in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia.

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Nan Tien Temple

Nan Tien Temple is a Buddhist temple complex located in Berkeley, on the southern outskirts of the Australian city of Wollongong, approximately south of Sydney.

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National Basketball League (Australia)

The National Basketball League (NBL) is the pre-eminent professional men's basketball league in Australia and New Zealand.

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National Premier Leagues NSW

The National Premier Leagues NSW are semi-professional soccer competitions in New South Wales, Australia.

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National Rugby League

The National Rugby League (NRL) is a league of professional men's rugby league teams in Australasia.

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New South Wales

New South Wales (abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.

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New South Wales cricket team

The New South Wales cricket team (currently named NSW Blues) are an Australian men's professional first class cricket team based in Sydney, New South Wales.

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New South Wales Rugby League premiership

The New South Wales Rugby League premiership was the first rugby league football club competition established in Australia and predecessor to today's National Rugby League.

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Newcastle, New South Wales

The Newcastle metropolitan area is the second most populated area in the Australian state of New South Wales and includes most of the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie local government areas.

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Norfolk Island

Norfolk Island (Norfuk: Norf'k Ailen) is a small island in the Pacific Ocean located between Australia, New Zealand, and New Caledonia, directly east of mainland Australia's Evans Head, and about from Lord Howe Island.

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Norman Gunston

Norman Gunston was a satirical TV character performed by Australian actor and comedian Garry McDonald.

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North Wollongong, New South Wales

North Wollongong is the immediate northern coastal suburb of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.

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Nowra, New South Wales

Nowra is a town in the South Coast region of New South Wales, Australia.

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Oak Flats, New South Wales

Oak Flats is a suburb of Shellharbour, New South Wales, Australia situated on the south western shores of Lake Illawarra and within the South Coast region of New South Wales.

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Oceanic climate

An oceanic or highland climate, also known as a marine or maritime climate, is the Köppen classification of climate typical of west coasts in higher middle latitudes of continents, and generally features cool summers (relative to their latitude) and cool winters, with a relatively narrow annual temperature range and few extremes of temperature, with the exception for transitional areas to continental, subarctic and highland climates.

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Ohrid

Ohrid (Охрид) is a city in the Republic of Macedonia and the seat of Ohrid Municipality.

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Orographic lift

Orographic lift occurs when an air mass is forced from a low elevation to a higher elevation as it moves over rising terrain.

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Port Kembla, New South Wales

Port Kembla is a suburb of Wollongong 8 km south of the CBD and part of the Illawarra region of New South Wales.

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Portuguese Australians

Portuguese Australians refers to Australians of Portuguese descent or Portuguese-born people living in Australia.

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Post-war immigration to Australia

Post-war immigration to Australia deals with migration to Australia since the end of World War II.

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Princes Highway

The Princes Highway is a major road in Australia, extending from Sydney to Port Augusta via the coast through the states of New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia.

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Princes Motorway

The Princes Motorway, formerly known as the Southern Freeway is a predominately dual carriage untolled motorway that links Sydney to Wollongong and further south through the Illawarra region to.

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Protectionism

Protectionism is the economic policy of restricting imports from other countries through methods such as tariffs on imported goods, import quotas, and a variety of other government regulations.

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Puckeys Estate Reserve

Puckey's Estate Reserve is a coastal nature reserve in Wollongong, Australia.

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Qantas

Qantas Airways is the flag carrier of Australia and its largest airline by fleet size, international flights and international destinations.

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Quidditch (sport)

Quidditch is a sport of two teams of seven players each mounted on broomsticks played on a hockey rink-sized pitch.

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Quidditch Australia

Quidditch Australia, formerly the Australian Quidditch Association, is the governing body of quidditch in Australia, and affiliated with the International Quidditch Association.

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Quidditch Through the Ages

Quidditch Through the Ages is a 2001 book written by British author J. K. Rowling using the pseudonym of Kennilworthy Whisp about Quidditch in the ''Harry Potter'' universe.

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Register of the National Estate

The Register of the National Estate was a heritage register that listed natural and cultural heritage places in Australia that was closed in 2007.

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Republic of Macedonia

Macedonia (translit), officially the Republic of Macedonia, is a country in the Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe.

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Robertson, New South Wales

Robertson is a large village in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia, in Wingecarribee Shire.

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Royal National Park

The Royal National Park is a protected national park that is located in Sutherland Shire in the Australian state of New South Wales, just south of Sydney.

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Rugby league

Rugby league football is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field.

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Rugby union

Rugby union, commonly known in most of the world as rugby, is a contact team sport which originated in England in the first half of the 19th century.

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Saddleback Mountain (New South Wales)

Saddleback Mountain is a mountain near Kiama in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia.

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Sclerophyll

Sclerophyll is a type of vegetation that has hard leaves, short internodes (the distance between leaves along the stem) and leaf orientation parallel or oblique to direct sunlight.

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Scott Chipperfield

Scott Kenneth Chipperfield (born 30 December 1975 in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian football (soccer) player who played as a midfielder for Wollongong Wolves, FC Basel, FC Aesch and Australia.

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Sea Cliff Bridge

The Sea Cliff Bridge is a balanced cantilever bridge located in the northern Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia.

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Selective school (New South Wales)

Selective schools in New South Wales, Australia are government high schools operated by the New South Wales Department of Education and Communities that have accepted their students based upon their academic merit.

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Serbian Australians

Serbian Australians are citizens of Australia who are of Serbian birth or descent.

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Shane Lee

Shane Lee (born 8 August 1973) is a former Australian first-class cricketer.

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Shell Cove, New South Wales

Shell Cove is a seaside suburb in the Shellharbour area located just south of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.

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Shellharbour, New South Wales

Shellharbour (also known as Shellharbour Village) is a suburb located in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia.

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Shute Shield

The Shute Shield is a rugby union competition in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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Sister city

Twin towns or sister cities are a form of legal or social agreement between towns, cities, counties, oblasts, prefectures, provinces, regions, states, and even countries in geographically and politically distinct areas to promote cultural and commercial ties.

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Smith's Hill High School

Smith's Hill High School is the only academically selective school in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.

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South Coast A-League Bid

A-League expansion in the South Coast and Illawarra regions of New South Wales has been proposed since the establishment of the A-League in 2005.

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South Coast railway line, New South Wales

The South Coast railway line (also known as the Illawarra railway line) is a commuter and goods railway line in New South Wales, Australia.

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Southern Highlands (New South Wales)

The Southern Highlands, also locally referred to as the Highlands, is a geographical region and district in New South Wales, Australia and is 110 km south-west of Sydney.

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St. George Dragons

The St George Dragons was an Australian Rugby league football club in St George, Sydney, New South Wales playing in the then-top-level New South Wales competition from 1921 until 1998 when, in 1999, they formed a joint venture with the Illawarra Steelers, creating the St George Illawarra Dragons team which competes in the National Rugby League.

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St. George Illawarra Dragons

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Sublime Point

Sublime Point is a feature of the Illawarra Escarpment west of Austinmer.

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Sydney Basin

The Sydney Basin is an interim Australian bioregion and is both a structural entity and a depositional area, now preserved on the east coast of New South Wales, Australia and with some of its eastern side now subsided beneath the Tasman Sea.

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Symbio Wildlife Park

Symbio Wildlife Park is a zoo situated in Helensburgh, New South Wales, Australia.

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Tasman Sea

The Tasman Sea (Māori: Te Tai-o-Rehua) is a marginal sea of the South Pacific Ocean, situated between Australia and New Zealand.

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Temperate rainforest

Temperate rainforests are coniferous or broadleaf forests that occur in the temperate zone and receive heavy rainfall.

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The Aunty Jack Show

The Aunty Jack Show was a Logie Award–winning Australian television comedy series that ran from 1972 to 1973.

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The X Factor (Australia season 7)

The X Factor was an Australian television reality music competition, based on the original UK series, to find new singing talent; the winner of which received a Sony Music Australia recording contract.

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Thunderstorm

A thunderstorm, also known as an electrical storm, lightning storm, or thundershower, is a storm characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere, known as thunder.

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Tim Cahill

Timothy Filiga Cahill (born 6 December 1979) is an Australian professional footballer who last played for club Millwall and is currently playing for the Australian national team.

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Time in Australia

Australia uses three main time zones: Australian Western Standard Time (AWST; UTC+08:00), Australian Central Standard Time (ACST; UTC+09:30), and Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST; UTC+10:00).

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Trent Johnston

David Trent Johnston (born 29 April 1974), usually known as Trent Johnston, is a former Irish cricketer.

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Tumbleweed (band)

Tumbleweed is an Australian rock group formed in 1990 in Tarrawanna.

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Turkish Australians

Turkish Australians or Australian Turks (Avustralya Türkleri) are Turkish people who have immigrated to Australia.

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Turuwal

The Turuwal people were an Aboriginal sub-group of the Dharuk language nation based in New South Wales, Australia.

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Unanderra–Moss Vale railway line

The Unanderra–Moss Vale railway line is a cross country railway line in New South Wales, Australia.

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University of New South Wales

The University of New South Wales (UNSW; branded as UNSW Sydney) is an Australian public research university located in the Sydney suburb of Kensington.

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University of Wollongong

The University of Wollongong (abbreviated as UOW) is an Australian public research university located in the coastal city of Wollongong, New South Wales, approximately 80 kilometres south of Sydney.

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Warrawong, New South Wales

Warrawong is a suburb of Wollongong, in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia.

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Westfield Group

Westfield Group was an Australian shopping centre company that existed from 1960 to 2014, when it split into two independent companies: Scentre Group, which now owns and operates the Australian and New Zealand Westfield shopping centre portfolio; and Westfield Corporation, which owns and operates the American and European center portfolio.

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White Australia policy

The term White Australia policy comprises various historical policies that effectively barred people of non-European descent from emigrating into Australia.

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WIN Entertainment Centre

WIN Entertainment Centre (formally Wollongong Entertainment Centre and commonly WEC) is a multi-purpose indoor arena, located in downtown Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.

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Wollongong

Wollongong, informally referred to as "The Gong", is a seaside city located in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia.

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Wollongong Botanic Garden

The Wollongong Botanic Garden is located in the Wollongong suburb of Keiraville at the foot of Mount Keira in New South Wales, Australia.

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Wollongong Breakwater Lighthouse

Wollongong Breakwater Lighthouse, also known as Wollongong Harbour Lighthouse, is a historic lighthouse situated on the southern breakwater of the heritage-listed Wollongong Harbour, in Wollongong, a coastal city south of Sydney, New South Wales in Australia.

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Wollongong Central

Wollongong Central is a major shopping centre in the Illawarra region, located in the CBD of Wollongong, New South Wales approximately 90 kilometres south of Sydney.

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Wollongong Conservatorium of Music

Wollongong Conservatorium of Music is a centre for music education and performance serving the city of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.

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Wollongong Head Lighthouse

The Wollongong Head Lighthouse, also known as Flagstaff Lighthouse or Flagstaff Point Light, is an active lighthouse located adjacent to the heritage-listed Wollongong Harbour precinct in Wollongong, a coastal city south of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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Wollongong High School of the Performing Arts

Wollongong High School of the Performing Arts is a specialist co-educational, public secondary school located in Fairy Meadow, a suburb of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, run by the New South Wales Department of Education and Training.

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Wollongong Hospital

Wollongong Hospital is the major tertiary referral hospital located in the Wollongong Metropolitan area, New South Wales, Australia.

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Wollongong railway station

Wollongong railway station is located on the Illawarra line in New South Wales, Australia.

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Wollongong Showground

Wollongong Showground, known as WIN Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a multi-purpose stadium located in Wollongong, Australia.

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Wollongong Warriors

The Wollongong Warriors Quidditch Club (WWQC) is the muggle quidditch club of the University of Wollongong, in New South Wales, Australia.

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Wollongong Wolves FC

Wollongong Wolves Football Club is an Australian semi-professional football club based in Wollongong, in the Illawarra region of New South Wales.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wollongong

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