Mount Kembla is a mountain in the volcanic fold of the Illawarra Escarpment, near Wollongong, Australia. Wollongong is an industrial city located on the eastern coast of Australia in the state of New South Wales. ...
The mountain is shaped like a wizard/witches pointed hat, and had a famous mining disaster at 2pm on July 31, 1902, when 96 men and boys were killed in the Mount Kembla mining disaster. July 31 is the 212th day (213th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 153 days remaining, as the final day of July. ... 1902 (MCMII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...
The most famous hangout in Mount Kembla is the Mount Kembla hotel, frequented by bikies and "the Doc".
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Mount Kembla, New South Wales - a suburb of the same name
Picturesque MountKembla situated in attractive bushland just one and a half hours from Sydney was sighted by Matthew Flinders in 1796 and founded in early 1800 as a farming and orchard district.
Kembla School was built in 1895 and Mt. Kembla Hotel in 1890.
Kembla is the home of painters, potters and poets in a setting of beautiful bushland and wonderful scenery and can be reached by the map shown on the left.
The coastal plain is widest in the south and narrowest in the north—to the north of Wollongong it becomes so narrow that the coastal road precariously hugs a cliffline and the Illawarra Railway must go through several tunnels to reach the Sydney metropolitan area.
A large coastal saltwater lagoon called Lake Illawarra[?] is in the southern part of the city, separated from the Tasman Sea by a long sandy spit.
Just to the north of the lake is Port Kembla[?], a natural harbour that has been considerably expanded by human-made excavation and reclamation works.
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