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Kogarah is a suburb of Sydney in New South Wales , Australia , with a population of about 15,000.
geography
The district is north of Kogarah Bay, 14 kilometers southwest of the Central Business District of Sydney and west of Botany Bay . It is the seat of the administrative area of Kogarah Council , but is also partly in Rockdale City .
Culture and sights
Buildings
Buildings worth seeing include the Kogarah School of the Arts on Bowns Road, the Kogarah Fire Station and Kogarah Court House on Montgomery Street, and the Kogarah Hotel on Princes Highway. Important churches are the Christ Greek Orthodox Church, the Kogarah Soldiers' Memorial Presbyterian Church, St Patricks Catholic Church, St Pauls Anglican Church, and the Grace Church Kogarah.
The Kogarah Town Center is the largest shopping mall in the city. There is a post office, a supermarket ( Woolworths ) together with a variety of retail outlets such as butchers , ecological grocery stores, delicatessen shops, bakeries, newsagents, hairdressers and pharmacies. The St. George Bank office building is on Montgomery Street. It has its national headquarters in Kogarah. The Darrell Lea Chocolate Factory is located on Rocky Point Road.
The Oki Jubilee Stadium (also Jubilee Oval or Kogarah Oval) on Princes Highway is the home of the rugby team St George Illawarra Dragons. The stadium has a capacity for 20,541 spectators (2006). The Kogarah Golf Club is located near Kingsford Smith Airport in the Sydney suburb of Arncliffe.
Regular events
The most popular events are the annual Kogarah Street Fair and the Charity Bed Race. Several teams compete on hospital beds on Kogarah's main street, the Railway Parade. The teams consist of five people, mostly employees from local businesses in the city.
The guidelines state that one member of the crew must be in a reclining position on the bed. The beds are usually decorated with the colors or badges of the business sponsoring the bed . The event serves charitable purposes. All winnings from the race go to St. George Hospital.
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
The Kogarah Railway Station is on the Illawarra Line and is part of the CityRail network. The railway company operates an extensive network of S-Bahn, regional and intercity lines in and around Sydney. The Illawarra Line runs from Bondi Junction via Central, Sydenham, Wolli Creek and Sutherland to Cronulla or Waterfall.
There are bus connections to Brighton-le-Sands, Monterey, Ramsgate Beach and Sans Souci. Until 1937 a steam tram ran the route between Kogarah and Sans Souci on Rocky Point Road. Trolleybuses ran on the route between July 3, 1937 and August 29, 1959 . These were then replaced by diesel-powered buses.
education
Major educational institutions in Kogarah include the Sydney Institute of TAFE: St. George Campus, Bethany College, Marist College Kogarah, James Cook Boys Technology High School, Moorefield Girls High School, Kogarah High School, St George Girls High School, St Patrick's Primary School, and Kogarah Public School.
Personalities
Born here
- Panagiotis "Panny" Nikas , Australian soccer player
literature
- Joan Lawrence: Pictorial Memories. ST. GEORGE: Rockdale, Kogarah, Hurstville , Kingsclear Books, 1996, ISBN 0-908272-45-6
- Frances Pollen: The Book of Sydney Suburbs , Angus & Robertson Publishers, 1990, ISBN 0-207-14495-8
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Australian Bureau of Statistics : Kogarah ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved April 30, 2020.