Port Kembla, New South Wales

Port Kembla
Wollongong, New South Wales
Port Kembla; Wollongong, New South Wales
	View of Port Kembla from Hill 60 Park looking North West at sunset
	Port Kembla
Coordinates	34°28′32″S 150°54′01″E / 34.47556°S 150.90028°E
Population	5,014 (2016 census)
Postcode(s)	2505
Elevation	19 m (62 ft)
Time zone	AEST (UTC+10)
• Summer (DST)	AEDT (UTC+11)
Location	94 km (58 mi) S of Sydney ; 10 km (6 mi) S of Wollongong ; 26 km (16 mi) N of Kiama ;
LGA(s)	City of Wollongong
State electorate(s)	Wollongong
Federal division(s)	Whitlam
	Suburbs around Port Kembla:

Port Kembla is a suburb of Wollongong 10 km south of the CBD and part of the Illawarra region of New South Wales. The suburb comprises a seaport, industrial complex (one of the largest in Australia), a small harbour foreshore nature reserve, and a small commercial sector. It is situated on the tip of Red Point: its first European sighting was by Captain James Cook in 1770. The name "Kembla" is an Aboriginal word meaning "plenty [of] wild fowl".^[2]

^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Port Kembla (State Suburb)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 16 July 2017. Material was copied from this source, which is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
^ "PLACE NAMES". The Australian Women's Weekly. National Library of Australia. 13 May 1964. p. 61. Retrieved 22 February 2011.

[census-1] Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Port Kembla (State Suburb)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 16 July 2017. Material was copied from this source, which is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

[2] "PLACE NAMES". The Australian Women's Weekly. National Library of Australia. 13 May 1964. p. 61. Retrieved 22 February 2011.

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