Wambrook, New South Wales
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Wambrook Location in New South Wales | |||||||||||||
| Coordinates: 36°12′37″S 148°57′02″E / 36.21028°S 148.95056°E | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | New South Wales | ||||||||||||
| Region | Monaro | ||||||||||||
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| Elevation | 865 m (2,838 ft) | ||||||||||||
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| • Total | 44 (2016 census)[2] | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 2630 | ||||||||||||
| County | Wallace | ||||||||||||
| Parish | Wambrook | ||||||||||||
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Wambrook is a locality in the Snowy Monaro Region, New South Wales, Australia.[3][4] It is located in grasslands mainly to the northeast of the Snowy Mountains Highway, about 30 km southeast of Adaminaby and 25 km northwest of Cooma, situated at the foot of the ranges at an altitude of 865 m above mean sea level. It is about 140 km south of Canberra. At the 2016 census, it had a population of 44.[2]
It had a school from 1892 to 1903 and from 1912 to 1928, described as a "provisional" school until March 1916 and subsequently as a "half-time" school.[5]
References
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Wambrook (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
- ^ a b Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Wambrook". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
- ^ "Wambrook". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
- ^ "Wambrook". OpenStreetMap. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
- ^ "Wambrook school in the school history database search". New South Wales Department of Education. Retrieved 3 April 2018.