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[[Category: Location in New South Wales ]]
Tea Gardens is a town in the Great Lakes Council in the state of New South Wales in Australia . It lies on the Myall River and is connected to the neighboring town of Hawks Nest by the Singing Bridge .
geography
location
Tea Gardens is located on the west bank of the Myall River in the north of the large natural harbor Port Stephens near the Tasman Sea . The village is located about 220 km north of Sydney and is connected to the Pacific Highway via a 10 km long road .
There are a number of protected natural spaces in the immediate vicinity of Tea Gardens. Corrie Island National Reserve is located on a small island just south of Tea Gardens . On the opposite side of the Myall River, about 8 km north of Hawks Nest, the southern part of the 44,000 hectare Myall Lakes National Park begins . Furthermore, large areas of the banks of the Myall River in the immediate vicinity of Tea Gardens have been declared nature reserves.
climate
Tea Gardens is located on the northern edge of Australia's temperate climate zone and already shows a tendency towards a subtropical climate. The mean monthly temperatures fluctuate between 8.4 ° C (July) and 27.3 ° C (January). The place is on the edge of an extensive wetland (the Myall Lakes) and has a relatively high annual precipitation for Australia of 1351.2 mm, which is evenly distributed over the seasons.
history
Tea Gardens (originally called "The Tea Gardens") was part of a large land concession from the Australian Agricultural Company from 1824. The exact origin of the place name is uncertain, but it is believed that it was after the company's (unsuccessful) attempts to make tea cultivated or so named after the many tea trees in the area.
The early settlers used the Myall Lakes river and lake system to ship wood. Areas of activity such as wood processing, boat building, agriculture, fishing and mining were added later. With the decline of the timber industry in the late 1880s, the population also fell.
In 1921 the first settlement areas in Tea Gardens and Hawks Nest were publicly designated. A ferry service between the two places began operating in 1928. However, it wasn't until the beginning of commercial sand mining in the area in the 1960s that the two places began to gain importance again. Tourist roads were built and in 1974 the Singing Bridge replaced the ferry service.
Today Tea Gardens has a population of around 2,300. The most important source of income is now tourism . The proximity to the beaches of Hawks Nest and the Myall Lakes National Park as well as the good fishing opportunities play a central role here. There are also ferry connections and tours to Nelson Bay on the south side of Port Stephens, where you can watch dolphins .
literature
- Brian A Engel, Jan Winn and John Wark: Tea Gardens, Hawks Nest and Northern Port Stephens . private publication, 2000, ISBN 0-9577641-1-1 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Australian Bureau of Statistics : Tea Gardens ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved February 7, 2020.
- ^ Tea Gardens. (No longer available online.) Spatial Information exchange, New South Wales Department of Lands, archived from the original on October 3, 2011 ; accessed on April 7, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Climate statistics for Nelson Bay. Australian Bureau of Meteorology, accessed April 7, 2009 .
- ^ A b c Narelle Marr: European History of the Great Lakes District. Great Lakes Council, 1993, archived from the original January 4, 2009 ; accessed on April 7, 2009 .
- ^ Tea Gardens Transport - Travel. Tea Gardens - Hawks Nest Community Information Service, accessed April 7, 2009 .
Web links
- Tea Gardens - Hawks Nest Community Information Service. Tea Gardens Community Technology Center, accessed April 7, 2009 .
- Myall Coast. Official tourist information website for the Great Lakes, accessed April 7, 2009 .