Illawarra escarpment
The Illawarra escarpment, or officially the Illawarra Range, is the fold-created cliffs and plateau-eroded outcrop mountain range west of the Illawarra coastal plain south of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Adam.J.W.C., CC BY 3.0.
- Type: Mountain range
- Description: mountain range in New South Wales, Australia
- Also known as: “Illawarra Escarpment”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Shellharbour Airport and Dapto railway station.
Shellharbour Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Bidgee, CC BY-SA 3.0 au.
Shellharbour Airport, formerly Illawarra Regional Airport, also referred as Albion Park Aerodrome or Wollongong Airport, is an airport located in Albion Park Rail, New South Wales, Australia.
Dapto railway station
Railway station
Photo: Abesty, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Dapto railway station is a heritage-listed railway station located on the South Coast railway line in the Wollongong suburb of Dapto, New South Wales, Australia.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Shellharbour and Horsley.
Shellharbour
Shellharbour is a coastal city of 76,271 in between Wollongong and the Shoalhaven, in the Illawarra region of New South Wales halfway between Wollongong and Kiama.
Horsley
Suburb
Photo: Graeme Bartlett, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Horsley is a suburb in Wollongong. It is the location of the new Dapto Primary school and a community centre. This suburb has expanded since 1999 and contains many newly developed houses.
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.
Illawarra escarpment
- Category: landform
- Location: City of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-34.5157° or 34° 30′ 57″ southLongitude
150.7848° or 150° 47′ 5″ eastOpen location code
4RQGFQMM+PWOpenStreetMap ID
way 889117003OpenStreetMap feature
natural=mountain_rangeWikidata ID
Q5998836
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Venetian—“Illawarra escarpment” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “伊拉瓦拉懸崖”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جرف ايلوارا”
- Japanese: “イラワラ絶壁”
- Ladin: “Illawarra escarpment”
- Spanish: “Escarpa de Illawarra”
- Venetian: “Escarpa de Illawarra”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Dapto and Lakelands Park.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include St Aidans and Mount Brown.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Illawarra escarpment”. Photo: Adam.J.W.C., CC BY 3.0.