Mount Pleasant, New South Wales
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| Mount Pleasant Wollongong, New South Wales |
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| Population: | 928 (2001) | ||||||||||||
| Postcode: | 2519 | ||||||||||||
| Area: | 0.5 km² | ||||||||||||
| Location: | 6 km from Wollongong | ||||||||||||
| LGA: | Wollongong | ||||||||||||
| State District: | Keira | ||||||||||||
| Federal Division: | Cunningham | ||||||||||||
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This article is about a suburb of Wollongong. For an area in Penrith, see Cranebrook, New South Wales.
Mount Pleasant () is a suburb in the city of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. It is situated in a part of the NSW South Coast known as the Illawarra.
[edit] History
John Dingwall owned land in the Mount Pleasant area. He named it after another estate which belonged to him. The village of Mount Pleasant, located on the mountainside, developed after the opening of the Mount Pleasant mine in 1861.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ City of Wollongong. Place Names of Wollongong. Retrieved on October 30, 2006.
[edit] External links
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- Street map from Street Directory, MSN Maps and Multimap.
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