Purrah Bay
Purrah Bay is a bay in City of Wollongong, New South Wales. Purrah Bay is situated nearby to the suburb Kanahooka, as well as near Berkeley.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Nan Tien Temple and Illawarra Sports High School.
Nan Tien Temple
Buddhist temple
Fo Guang Shan Nan Tien Temple is a Buddhist temple complex located in Berkeley, on the southern outskirts of the Australian city of Wollongong, approximately 90 kilometres south of Sydney. Nan Tien Temple is situated 3½ km north of Purrah Bay.
Illawarra Sports High School
School
Illawarra Sports High School is a government-funded co-educational comprehensive and specialist secondary day school, with speciality in sports, located in Berkeley, a southern suburb of Wollongong, in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia. Illawarra Sports High School is situated 2½ km northeast of Purrah Bay.
Tallawarra Power Station
Power station
Photo: Chongkian, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tallawarra Power Station is a 440-megawatt combined cycle natural gas turbine generator and a further 320 MW open cycle gas turbine in Yallah, New South Wales, Australia. Tallawarra Power Station is situated 4 km southwest of Purrah Bay.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kanahooka and Berkeley.
Kanahooka
Suburb
Kanahooka is a southern suburb in Wollongong City Council. It has a few shops and a playground. Situated on Lake Illawarra is a Park with a playground. It has a public school and a high school.
Berkeley
Suburb
Photo: Maksym Kozlenko, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Berkeley is a suburb of Wollongong, New South Wales. The suburb is located in Wollongong's southern suburbs, on the northern shore of Lake Illawarra, and is one of the city's most populous suburbs. At the 2021 census, it had a population of 7,798.
Koonawarra
Suburb
Koonawarra is a suburb of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. It is located on the western shore of Lake Illawarra. Koonawarra, or Exmouth, as it was then called, was one of the first five land grants located in the Illawarra. Koonawarra is situated 2½ km west of Purrah Bay.
Purrah Bay
- Type: Bay
- Category: body of water
- Location: City of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-34.49832° or 34° 29′ 54″ southLongitude
150.83634° or 150° 50′ 11″ eastElevation
1 metre (3 feet)Open location code
4RQGGR2P+MGGeoNames ID
2152376
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