Gerringong   NSW  2534
Population: 2,900
Height above sea level: 18,  
Latitude: 34.4456,   Longitude: 150.4934
Location:  115km south of Sydney
Highway: Princes Hwy (1) 
Nearest Major Town: Kiama
Nearest Airport: Wollongong
Touring Area: Southern Highlands - Illawarra
First settled in the 1820s by timber cutters who reaped the plentiful cedar trees,it is now a large dairy area.Nearby seven Mile Beach is where aviator Sir Charles Kingsford Smith took of for his flight to New Zealand in 1933 and a monument marks the spot. Surfing, fishing,swimming.


  
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