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Bowral is a town located in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia, in Wingecarribee Shire. It was previously known by the name Bowrall. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 533 pixelsFull resolution (1728 × 1152 pixel, file size: 1. ...
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The Southern Highlands is a geographical area in New South Wales, Australia, southwest of Sydney. ...
Capital Sydney Government Constitutional monarchy Governor Professor Marie Bashir Premier Morris Iemma (ALP) Federal representation - House seats 50 - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2004-05) - Product ($m) $305,437 (1st) - Product per capita $45,153/person (4th) Population (End of March 2006) - Population 6,817,100 (1st) - Density 8. ...
Wingecarribee is a Local Government Area (LGA) southwest of Sydney named after the Wingecarribee River, which flows through it. ...
Bowral is perhaps the best known of the towns and villages that comprise the Southern Highlands, and in recent years has become the commercial centre of the Wingecarribee Shire. Bowral is home to the world famous Bradman Museum which celebrates not only the achievements of Bowral's favourite son, Sir Donald Bradman, but also a wealth of world sporting information and memorabilia. Bowral is also the setting for "Tulip Time", a Spring celebration where over 100,000 tulips and 25,000 flowers are planted in the town centre. Held every September to October, Tulip Time has become one of Australia's leading floral festivals. Bowral lies at the heart of the Southern Highlands BOOKtrail, Australia's first booktown project. Sir Donald George Bradman AC (August 27, 1908 — February 25, 2001), often called The Don, was an Australian cricketer who is universally acknowledged to be the greatest batsman of all time. ...
The population of Bowral is 7431 (Census 2001) and growing rapidly due to the completion of the M5 freeway from Sydney and linking to Canberra. It has a station on CityRail's Southern Highlands line. Metroad 5 (M5) is a main arterial route linking Sydneys city centre to its south western suburbs and beyond. ...
The Sydney Opera House on Sydney Harbour Sydney (pronounced ) is the most populous city in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of over 4,200,000 people, and 151,920 within the city centre. ...
For other uses, see Canberra (disambiguation). ...
Bowral Railway Station is a station on the Southern Highlands line of the CityRail intercity network, serving the large town of Bowral, New South Wales, Australia. ...
The waiting area at Central Railway Station, the main station on the CityRail network CityRail is an operating division of RailCorp, a publicly owned corporation of the government of the state of New South Wales, Australia. ...
On this line only Xplorers , XPTs and Endeavours operate on this line. ...
The population swells during winter, when thousands of visitors book into the local hotels and B&Bs to enjoy romantic fires and secluded winter getaways. Spring is also very popular with gardening enthusiasts who come to view some of the world's most beautiful formal gardens designed by landscape luminaries such as Paul Sorensen who designed the gardens of Invergowrie. Tourists of various nationalities chatting over breakfast at a B&B in Quebec City. ...
Bowral is overshadowed by Mount Gibraltar which is 861m above sea level. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
References
- AusStats : UCL112600 Bowral (Urban Centre/Locality)
External links Coordinates: 34°30′S, 150°24′E Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...
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