Hunter
Hunter is a region in New South Wales directly to the north of Sydney. It is also often referred to as the "Hunter Valley", though it only forms a specific part of the region.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Newcastle and Newcastle.
Newcastle
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Newcastle is a city at the mouth of the Hunter River, approximately 150 km north of Sydney in the Hunter region of New South Wales. The city is the focal point for the diverse Hunter region that encompasses beaches and mountains, restaurants and wineries.
Maitland
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Maitland is a city in the Lower Hunter Valley region of New South Wales. It's sometimes considered a part of Greater Newcastle, or even a northwestern suburb of Newcastle.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Cessnock and Port Stephens.
Cessnock
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Cessnock is adjacent to Australia's oldest wine growing region, the Lower Hunter Valley vineyards. The city has a strong working-class feel, which contrasts markedly with the nearby tourist's playground that is the Lower Hunter wine country.
Port Stephens
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Port Stephens is a coastal area surrounding the Port Stephens Bay, just north of Newcastle in New South Wales.
Lake Macquarie
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Lake Macquarie is a satellite city of Newcastle with the largest permanent saltwater lake in the Southern Hemisphere. It is a contemporary coastal city and natural adventure playground.
Muswellbrook
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Muswellbrook is a town in the Upper Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia, about 243 km north of Sydney and 127 km north-west of Newcastle. Geologically, Muswellbrook is situated in the northern parts of the Sydney basin, bordering the New England region.
Singleton
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Singleton is a city of 24,577 in the Hunter region of New South Wales. It is 77 km northwest of Newcastle.
Scone
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Scone is a town of 3400 people in the Upper Hunter Valley and is known as the horse capital of Australia.
Kurri Kurri
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Kurri Kurri is in the Hunter region of New South Wales, and can be considered the mural capital of Australia due to the sheer amount of murals.
Dungog
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Dungog is at one of the two northern terminuses of the Hunter Line in the Hunter region of New South Wales, with a population of a little over 2,000. The town also serves as a base for exploring the Central section of Barrington Tops National Park.
Barrington Tops National Park
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Barrington Tops National Park is in the Hunter region of New South Wales, Australia, with sections creeping into the Mid-North Coast. It's the southernmost of all the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia.
Aberdeen
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Aberdeen is a small town in the upper Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia, in Upper Hunter Shire. It is 12 kilometres north of Muswellbrook on the New England Highway.
Werakata National Park
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Werakata National Park is a national park in the Hunter region of New South Wales. In the 1800s when European settlers came, most of this park was destroyed due to the large scale timber industry.
Pokolbin
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The Pokolbin district, in the Lower Hunter Valley in New South Wales, is one of Australia's premier wine regions. Viticulture in the region has a long history, the first vineyards being established in the 1850s.
Yengo National Park
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Yengo National Park is in the Hunter region of New South Wales. It protects 1,543 km2 of Greater Blue Mountains Area, which was added to the UNESCO World Heritage list because of its remarkable geographic, botanic and cultural values.
Paterson
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Paterson is a small township of 900 in the Hunter region of New South Wales. It harboured a busy inland port in the 1800s meaning it's one of the Hunter's oldest towns.
Murrurundi
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Murrurundi is a rural town in the Upper Hunter region of New South Wales. The town is located on the Pages River, at the base of the Liverpool Range.
Clarence Town
Clarence Town is both a primarily rural locality and a township in the Dungog Shire local government area in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia.Wollombi
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Wollombi is a village located at the edge of the Hunter Valley wine country and located at the intersection of Tourist Drive 33, in New South Wales, Australia. While it's in the Central Coast, Wikivoyage covers it in the Hunter region for practical purposes.
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Hunter
- Type: valley with 621,000 residents
- Description: region of New South Wales, Australia
- Also known as: “Hunter Region” and “Hunter Valley”
- Category: region
- Location: New South Wales, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude of center
-32.3823° or 32° 22′ 56″ southLongitude of center
151.2103° or 151° 12′ 37″ eastPopulation
621,000Wikidata ID
Q1638164
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Welsh—“Hunter” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “亨特地區”
- Chinese: “獵人谷”
- Esperanto: “Hunter Region”
- Esperanto: “Valo Hunter”
- French: “Hunter Valley”
- French: “Hunter”
- French: “Région de l’Hunter”
- French: “Vallee Hunter”
- French: “vallée Hunter”
- German: “Hunter Valley”
- Hebrew: “אזור האנטר וואלי”
- Hebrew: “אזור האנטר”
- Hebrew: “האנטר ואלי”
- Indonesian: “Wilayah Hunter”
- Japanese: “ハンター・ヴァレー”
- Japanese: “ハンター・バレー”
- Japanese: “ハンターヴァレー”
- Japanese: “ハンターバレー”
- Japanese: “ハンター地区”
- Japanese: “ハンター地域”
- Korean: “헌터밸리”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hunter Valley”
- Norwegian: “Hunter Valley”
- Persian: “منطقه هانتر”
- Persian: “هانتر”
- Polish: “Hunter”
- Portuguese: “Hunter Region”
- Spanish: “Hunter Valley”
- Spanish: “Valle de Hunter”
- Swedish: “Hunter”
- Welsh: “Hunter Valley”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Hunter”. Photo: Tiimta, CC BY-SA 3.0.