Mount Kuring-Gai

Mount Kuring-Gai
Cascades on Calna Creek
State :  Australia State : New South Wales
Coordinates : 33 ° 39 ′  S , 151 ° 8 ′  E Coordinates: 33 ° 39 ′  S , 151 ° 8 ′  E
Residents : 1,708 (2016)
Time zone : AEST (UTC +10) Postal code : 2080 LGA : Hornsby Shire
Mount Kuring-Gai

Mount Kuring-Gai is a suburb of Sydney with 1,708 residents in New South Wales , Australia . Suburbs bordering Mount Kring-Gai are Berowra in the north and Mount Colah in the south. Surrounded by bushland, the place is located at the Ku-ring-gai-Chase National Park .

Ku-ring-Gai had been the land of the Guringai , an Aboriginal tribe , for thousands of years . The Kuring-gai railway station was built in the place in 1903 and in 1933 the place was named Mount Ku-ring-Gai.

The place is divided by traffic routes, the Pacific Highway , the F3, the Sydney-Newcastle Freeway and the parallel North Shore Railway .

In the east of the village there is a primary school, community hall and sports field, on the west side there are shopping centers, the Mount Kuring-gai Railway Station and a telephone company. The east and west sides are connected by a road and pedestrian bridge.

An industrial area and companies such as a hot air balloon factory and a book publisher in Mount Kuring-Gai provide jobs for the local population.

Hiking trails start in the suburb. The Great North Walk also goes along here, which leads from Sydney into the Hunter Valley , as well as a path to Apple Tree Bay .

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  Use of a Shania fire-fighting helicopter (type: N720HT) near Mount Kuring-gai in April 2007

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  Rock overhang at Lyrebird Gully , where Lyrebirds (German: Leierschwänze ) are occasionally seen

literature

• The Book of Sydney Suburbs , Compiled by Frances Pollen, Angus & Robertson Publishers, 1990, Published in Australia ISBN 0-207-14495-8

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Australian Bureau of Statistics : Mount Kuring-Gai ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved January 26, 2020.