Tongarra
- Local Government Area
- Shellharbour
- Postcode
- 2527
- Population
- 141
- Area
- 22.02 km²
- Coordinates
- -34.5824, 150.6945
- Data
- Based on Australian Bureau of Statistics ASGS boundaries, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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About Tongarra
Tongarra is a quiet rural locality in the City of Shellharbour, situated west of Albion Park in the Tongarra Valley. The area features rolling farmland along the Macquarie Rivulet near the Illawarra Escarpment, with a history of dairy farming and coal mining at the Tongarra Colliery operated intermittently from 1893 to 1965.
Nearby localities
- Macquarie Pass 4 km
- Calderwood 4 km
- Knights Hill 4 km
- Tullimbar 4 km
- Yellow Rock (Shellharbour - NSW) 5 km
- Marshall Mount 6 km