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Orange is a provincial city in New South Wales
New South Wales

New South Wales is Australia's oldest and most populous States and territories of Australia, located in the south-east of the country, north of Victoria and south of Queensland....
, Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
. It is located on the Mitchell Highway
Mitchell Highway

The Mitchell Highway is a major rural highway in central and northern New South Wales, Australia and South Central Queensland. The highway starts at Bathurst, New South Wales and links Orange, New South Wales, Molong, New South Wales, Wellington, New South Wales, Dubbo, New South Wales, Narromine, New South Wales, Nevertire, New South Wales,...
, west of Sydney
Sydney

Sydney is the List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 4.34 million . It is the List of Australian capital cities of New South Wales, and was the site of the first British Empire colony in Australia....
 at an altitude of . Orange presently has a population of 31,544 and the city is a major provincial centre.

Key industries include agriculture
Agriculture

Agriculture refers to the production of food and goods through farming and forestry. Agriculture was the key development that led to the rise of civilization, with the animal husbandry of domestication animals and plants creating food surpluses that enabled the development of more Population density and Social stratification societies....
, mining
Mining

Mining is the extraction of value minerals or other geology materials from the earth, usually from an ore body, vein or seam. Materials recovered by mining include base metals, precious metals, iron, uranium, coal, diamonds, limestone, oil shale, Sodium chloride and potash....
, health
Health

In 1948, the World Health Organisation defined health as ?a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.? ...
 services and education
Education

File:Inukshuk Monterrey 1.jpgEducation can be seen as a product or a process and considered in a broad sense or a technical sense. According to philosophy of education George F....
. A significant nearby landmark
Landmark

Originally, a landmark literally meant a geographic feature used by exploration and others to find their way back or through an area.In modern usage, a landmark includes anything that is easily recognizable, such as a monument, building, or other structure....
 is Mount Canobolas
Mount Canobolas

Mount Canobolas, at an altitude of above sea level, is the highest mountain in the central west region of New South Wales, Australia. The mountain is of volcano origin....
; at an altitude
Altitude

Altitude has multiple uses depending on the context in which it is used . As a general definition, altitude is a distance measurement, usually in the vertical or "up" direction, between a reference datum and a point or object....
 of it gives commanding views of the district. Orange is one of the few cities in Australia to receive reasonably frequent snowfalls in winter.

Orange is the birthplace of poets Banjo Paterson
Banjo Paterson

Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson was a famous Australian bush poet, journalist and author. He wrote many ballads and poems about Australian life, focusing particularly on the rural and outback areas, including the district around Binalong, New South Wales where he spent much of his childhood....
 and Kenneth Slessor
Kenneth Slessor

Kenneth Adolf Slessor was an Australian poet and journalist. He was one of Australia's leading poets, notable particularly for the absorption of modernist influences into Australian poetry....
, although Paterson only lived in Orange for a very short time as an infant.

The first Australian Touring Car Championship
Australian Touring Car Championship

The Australian Touring Car Championship is a touring car racing award held in Australia since 1960. The series itself is no longer contested, but the title lives on, with the winner of the V8 Supercar awarded the trophy and title of Australian Touring Car Champion....
, known today as V8 Supercar Championship Series
V8 Supercar

V8 Supercars is a touring car racing category operated under the regulations of the F?d?ration Internationale de l'Automobile . It is the most popular motorsport in Australia, has a considerable following in New Zealand, and is steadily growing in popularity across the world where television coverage allows....
, was held in at the Gnoo Blas circuit
Gnoo Blas circuit

Gnoo Blas circuit was a motor racing circuit at Orange, New South Wales, New South Wales, Australia. The circuit was formed from rural roads and highways outside of the town, around the grounds of Bloomfield Hospital and what is now known as Sir Jack Brabham Park....
 in 1960
1960 Australian Touring Car Championship

|The 1960 Australian Touring Car Championship was the inaugural running of the Australian Touring Car Championship. It was contested over a single race held on 1 February 1960 at the Gnoo Blas circuit near Orange, New South Wales in New South Wales....
.

822 Captain Percy Simpson drove into the Wellington District and established a convict settlement which was called "Blackman's Swamp" after .






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Orange is a provincial city in New South Wales
New South Wales

New South Wales is Australia's oldest and most populous States and territories of Australia, located in the south-east of the country, north of Victoria and south of Queensland....
, Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
. It is located on the Mitchell Highway
Mitchell Highway

The Mitchell Highway is a major rural highway in central and northern New South Wales, Australia and South Central Queensland. The highway starts at Bathurst, New South Wales and links Orange, New South Wales, Molong, New South Wales, Wellington, New South Wales, Dubbo, New South Wales, Narromine, New South Wales, Nevertire, New South Wales,...
, west of Sydney
Sydney

Sydney is the List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 4.34 million . It is the List of Australian capital cities of New South Wales, and was the site of the first British Empire colony in Australia....
 at an altitude of . Orange presently has a population of 31,544 and the city is a major provincial centre.

Key industries include agriculture
Agriculture

Agriculture refers to the production of food and goods through farming and forestry. Agriculture was the key development that led to the rise of civilization, with the animal husbandry of domestication animals and plants creating food surpluses that enabled the development of more Population density and Social stratification societies....
, mining
Mining

Mining is the extraction of value minerals or other geology materials from the earth, usually from an ore body, vein or seam. Materials recovered by mining include base metals, precious metals, iron, uranium, coal, diamonds, limestone, oil shale, Sodium chloride and potash....
, health
Health

In 1948, the World Health Organisation defined health as ?a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.? ...
 services and education
Education

File:Inukshuk Monterrey 1.jpgEducation can be seen as a product or a process and considered in a broad sense or a technical sense. According to philosophy of education George F....
. A significant nearby landmark
Landmark

Originally, a landmark literally meant a geographic feature used by exploration and others to find their way back or through an area.In modern usage, a landmark includes anything that is easily recognizable, such as a monument, building, or other structure....
 is Mount Canobolas
Mount Canobolas

Mount Canobolas, at an altitude of above sea level, is the highest mountain in the central west region of New South Wales, Australia. The mountain is of volcano origin....
; at an altitude
Altitude

Altitude has multiple uses depending on the context in which it is used . As a general definition, altitude is a distance measurement, usually in the vertical or "up" direction, between a reference datum and a point or object....
 of it gives commanding views of the district. Orange is one of the few cities in Australia to receive reasonably frequent snowfalls in winter.

Orange is the birthplace of poets Banjo Paterson
Banjo Paterson

Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson was a famous Australian bush poet, journalist and author. He wrote many ballads and poems about Australian life, focusing particularly on the rural and outback areas, including the district around Binalong, New South Wales where he spent much of his childhood....
 and Kenneth Slessor
Kenneth Slessor

Kenneth Adolf Slessor was an Australian poet and journalist. He was one of Australia's leading poets, notable particularly for the absorption of modernist influences into Australian poetry....
, although Paterson only lived in Orange for a very short time as an infant.

The first Australian Touring Car Championship
Australian Touring Car Championship

The Australian Touring Car Championship is a touring car racing award held in Australia since 1960. The series itself is no longer contested, but the title lives on, with the winner of the V8 Supercar awarded the trophy and title of Australian Touring Car Champion....
, known today as V8 Supercar Championship Series
V8 Supercar

V8 Supercars is a touring car racing category operated under the regulations of the F?d?ration Internationale de l'Automobile . It is the most popular motorsport in Australia, has a considerable following in New Zealand, and is steadily growing in popularity across the world where television coverage allows....
, was held in at the Gnoo Blas circuit
Gnoo Blas circuit

Gnoo Blas circuit was a motor racing circuit at Orange, New South Wales, New South Wales, Australia. The circuit was formed from rural roads and highways outside of the town, around the grounds of Bloomfield Hospital and what is now known as Sir Jack Brabham Park....
 in 1960
1960 Australian Touring Car Championship

|The 1960 Australian Touring Car Championship was the inaugural running of the Australian Touring Car Championship. It was contested over a single race held on 1 February 1960 at the Gnoo Blas circuit near Orange, New South Wales in New South Wales....
.

History

In 1822 Captain Percy Simpson drove into the Wellington District and established a convict settlement which was called "Blackman's Swamp" after . Percy had employed John Blackman as a guide because he had already accompanied an earlier explorer into that region.

In the late 1820s surveyor J. B. Richards worked on a survey of the Macquarie River
Macquarie River

The Macquarie River is one of the main inland rivers in New South Wales. It headwaters rise in the central highlands of New South Wales near the town of Oberon, New South Wales....
 below Bathurst
Bathurst, New South Wales

Bathurst is a regional centre in the state of New South Wales, Australia approximately 200km west of Sydney and is the seat of the Bathurst Regional Council Local Government Areas in Australia....
 and also of the road to Wellington
Wellington, New South Wales

Wellington is a town in inland New South Wales, Australia located at the junction of the Macquarie River and Bell Rivers. The town is the administrative centre of the Wellington Shire Local Government Areas of Australia....
. On a plan dated 1829, he indicated a village reserve, in the parish of Orange. It is thought that Sir Thomas Mitchell may have named the parish, as he had been an associate of the Prince of Orange in the Peninsular War
Peninsular War

The Peninsular War or Spanish War of Independence was a contest between First French Empire and the allied powers of Spain, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and Kingdom of Portugal for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars....
, when both were aides-de-camp
Aide-de-camp

An aide-de-camp is a personal assistant, secretary, or adjutant to a person of high rank, usually a senior military officer or a head of state....
 to the Duke of Wellington
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Order of the Garter, Order of St Patrick, Order of the Bath, Royal Guelphic Order, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, Royal Society , was an Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman, and one of the leading military and political figures of the nineteenth century....
, whose title was bestowed on the valley westward, by Oxley.

Legal occupation by graziers began late in 1829, and tiny settlements grew up on the properties and in connection with the road. In 1844 surveyor Davidson was sent to check on encroachments onto the land reserved for a village, and to advise on the location for a township; the choice being Frederick's Valley, Pretty Plains or Blackman's Swamp.

Blackman's Swamp was decided upon and proclaimed a village and named Orange by Major Thomas Mitchell
Thomas Mitchell

Major Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell , Surveyor and European exploration of Australia of south-eastern Australia, was born at Grangemouth in Stirlingshire, Scotland....
 in 1846 in honour of Prince William of Orange
William I of the Netherlands

William I Frederick, born Willem Frederik Prins van Oranje-Nassau , was a Prince of Orange and the first King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg....
. At nearby Ophir
Ophir, New South Wales

Ophir is the name of a locality in New South Wales, Australia in Cabonne Shire, New South Wales.Ophir is located near the Macquarie River northeast of the city of Orange, New South Wales....
 the first payable discovery of gold
Gold

Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au and atomic number 79. It is a highly sought-after precious metal, having been used as money, as a store of value, in jewelry, in sculpture, and for ornamentation since the beginning of recorded history....
 in Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
 was made in 1851 which led to the Australian gold rush. Subsequent discoveries of gold in nearby areas led to the establishment of Orange as a central trading centre for the gold. This is contrary to the popular belief that gold was first discovered close to the nearby regional town of Bathurst.

The growth of Orange continued as the conditions were well suited for agriculture, and in 1860 it was proclaimed a municipality. The railway from Sydney
Sydney

Sydney is the List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 4.34 million . It is the List of Australian capital cities of New South Wales, and was the site of the first British Empire colony in Australia....
 reached Orange in 1877. In 1946, 100 years after first being established as a village, Orange was proclaimed a city
City

A city is an urban area with a high population density and a particular administrative, legal, or historical status.Large industrialized cities generally have advanced systems for sanitation, utilities, land usage, house, and transportation and more....
.

Industries

Orange is a well known fruit
Fruit

The term fruit has different meanings dependent on context, and the term is not synonymous in food preparation and biology. In botany, which is the scientific study of plants, fruits are the ripened Ovary of flowering plants....
 growing district, and produces apple
APPLE

This article is about the satellite APPLE. For the fruit apple, see Apple. For other uses see Apple .The Ariane Passenger PayLoad Experiment , was an experimental communication satellite with a C-Band transponder launched by Indian Space Research Organisation satellite on June 19, 1981 by Ariane 1, a launch vehicle of the European Spac...
s, pear
Pear

The pear is an edible pome fruit produced by a tree of genus Pyrus . The pear is classified within Maloideae, a subfamily within Rosaceae. The apple , which it resembles in floral structure, is also a member of this subfamily....
s, and many stone fruits such as cherries, peach
Peach

The peach is known as a species of Prunus native to China that bears an edible juicy fruit also called a peach. It is a deciduous tree growing to 5?10 m tall, belonging to the subfamily Prunoideae of the family Rosaceae....
es, apricot
Apricot

The Apricot is a species of Prunus, classified with the plum in the subgenus Prunus. The native range is somewhat uncertain due to its extensive prehistoric cultivation, but most likely in northern and western China and Central Asia, possibly also Korea and Japan....
s and plum
Plum

A plum or gage is a drupe tree in the genus Prunus, subgenus Prunus. The subgenus is distinguished from other subgenera in the shoots having a terminal bud and the side buds solitary , the flowers being grouped 1-5 together on short stems, and the fruit having a groove running down one side, and a smooth stone....
s. Somewhat ironically, oranges
Orange (fruit)

An orange?specifically, the sweet orange?is the citrus Citrus sinensis and its fruit. The orange is a Hybrid of ancient cultivated origin, possibly between pomelo and tangerine ....
 are not grown in the area, as the climate is too cool. In recent years, a large number of vineyard
Vineyard

A vineyard is a plantation of grape-bearing vines, grown mainly for winemaking, but also raisins, table grapes and non-alcoholic grape juice. The science, practice and study of vineyard production is known as viticulture....
s have been planted in the area for a rapidly expanding wine
Wine

Wine is an alcoholic beverage often made of fermentation grape juice. The natural chemical balance of grapes is such that they can ferment without the addition of sugars, acids, enzymes or other nutrients....
 production industry. The growth of this wine industry, coupled with the further development of Orange as a gourmet food capital, has ensured Orange's status as something of a tourism capital.

Other large industries include the Cadia gold mine
Cadia mine

Cadia Mine is a large Open-pit mining Gold mine and copper Mining located about 20 kilometres south of the regional city of Orange, New South Wales, Australia....
 and an Electrolux
Electrolux

The Electrolux Group is a Sweden manufacturer of home and professional appliances. According to the company, it sells more than 40 million products to customers in 150 countries annually....
 white goods factory. Orange is also the location of the New South Wales Department of Primary Industries
New South Wales Department of Primary Industries

NSW Department of Primary Industries is part of the Government of New South Wales and is responsible for agriculture, fisheries, aquaculture, state forests, minerals and petroleum in the state....
 head office, and a campus of Charles Sturt University
Charles Sturt University

Charles Sturt University is an Australian multi-campus university in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. It has campuses at Bathurst, New South Wales, Albury, New South Wales, Dubbo, New South Wales, Orange, New South Wales and Wagga Wagga....
 (formerly part of University of Sydney
University of Sydney

The University of Sydney is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation in Australia. It was established in Sydney in 1850. It is a member of Australia's "Group of Eight " universities that are highly ranked in terms of their research performance....
). Orange High School
Orange High School (New South Wales)

Orange High School is a co-educational, Secondary school, Public school, day school located in Orange, New South Wales, a provincial city of New South Wales, Australia, 260 kilometres west of Sydney, New South Wales....
 is the largest school in the city. Other secondary schools located within the city are Canobolas Rural Technology High School, Kinross Wolaroi School and James Sheahan Catholic High School.

Climate

 align="bottom" style="padding:0 0;margin:0 0;"| Source: Averages for ORANGE AIRPORT, 1968–2008,
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Notes: Temperature
Temperature

In physics, temperature is a physical property of a Physical system that underlies the common notions of hot and cold; something that feels hotter generally has the greater temperature....
s are in degrees Celsius
Celsius

Celsius is a temperature scale that is named after the Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius , who developed a similar temperature scale two years before his death....
. Precipitation
Precipitation (meteorology)

File:MeanMonthlyP.gifIn meteorology, precipitation is any product of the condensation of Atmosphere water vapor that is deposited on the earth's surface....
 is in millimetres. Orange Airport Latitude: -33.38S Longitude: 149.12E Elevation: 948 m ASL


Media

Orange has several radio stations, such as 105.1 2GZFM
2GZ

2GZ is an Australian radio station, licensed to Orange, New South Wales. It is owned and operated by Macquarie Regional RadioWorks, and transmits on 105.1 megahertz on the Frequency modulation band....
, 105.9 Star FM
Star FM (Australian radio network)

Star FM is an Australian radio network, consisting of stations in New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia.The brand was created in 1999 by DMG Radio Australia....
, , 103.5 Rhema FM
Rhema FM

Rhema FM is the name of a number of Christian radio radio station formerly affiliated with United Christian Broadcasters in Australia. Each is run and programmed locally, with predominantly local announcing....
 and 1089AM — a commercial station that gets most of its programming from 2SM
2SM

2SM is an Australian radio station, licensed to and serving Sydney, New South Wales, broadcasting on 1269 kilohertz on the AM radio band. It is owned and operated by Broadcast Operations Group....
 in Sydney. Recently a new radio station, HIT Country 88, opened and broadcasts on 88.0FM.

Electronic media is represented by the ABC, and television by Prime
Prime Television

Prime Television is an Australian Television broadcasting in Australia owned by Prime Television Limited. Prime Television launched on 17 March 1962 as CBN in Orange, New South Wales and Dubbo, New South Wales, and has since expanded to cover regional New South Wales, Victoria and the Australian Capital Territory as a Seven Network affi...
, WIN
WIN Television

WIN Television is an Australian Australian television broadcasting owned by the WIN Corporation that is based in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia....
 and Southern Cross Ten
Southern Cross Ten

Southern Cross Ten is an Australian television channel broadcast by the Macquarie Media Group in Queensland, New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, Victoria and South Australia....
.

The local newspapers are the Central Western Daily
Central Western Daily

The Central Western Daily newspaper was founded in 1945 in Orange, New South Wales. It is a paid daily newspaper sold six mornings per week, from Monday to Saturday and is of strong repute in the local community....
,the Midstate Observer and Orange Photo News

Transport

Orange is situated on the Mitchell Highway
Mitchell Highway

The Mitchell Highway is a major rural highway in central and northern New South Wales, Australia and South Central Queensland. The highway starts at Bathurst, New South Wales and links Orange, New South Wales, Molong, New South Wales, Wellington, New South Wales, Dubbo, New South Wales, Narromine, New South Wales, Nevertire, New South Wales,...
, linking the city to Bathurst
Bathurst, New South Wales

Bathurst is a regional centre in the state of New South Wales, Australia approximately 200km west of Sydney and is the seat of the Bathurst Regional Council Local Government Areas in Australia....
 to the East, and through to Molong, Wellington, Dubbo
Dubbo, New South Wales

Dubbo is a city in the Central West, New South Wales of New South Wales, Australia. It is the largest population centre in the Orana region with a population of 30,574 at the time of the 2006 census, and serves an estimated catchment of 130,000....
 and Bourke
Bourke, New South Wales

Bourke is a town and Local Government Areas in Australia in the north of New South Wales, Australia. The town is located approximately 800 kilometres north-west of Sydney, on the south bank of the Darling River....
 to the north west. Due west are Parkes
Parkes, New South Wales

Parkes is a town in New South Wales, Australia. It has a population of approximately 11,700 . It is the main settlement in the Local Government Areas of Australia of Parkes Shire Council....
  and Forbes , which is midway along the Newell Highway
Newell Highway

The Newell Highway is the longest highway in New South Wales, Australia. It runs parallel to the eastern coast about 400 kilometres inland, and is the main inland direct road link from Victoria to Queensland, bypassing the more congested coastal areas of New South Wales....
, running from Brisbane
Brisbane

Brisbane is the state List of Australian capital cities of Queensland and its most populous city. It is also the List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, behind southern rivals Sydney and Melbourne....
 to Melbourne
Melbourne

Melbourne is the more common name for the geographic region and Census in Australia of the Greater Melbourne metropolitan area. It is the second List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, with a population of approximately 3.8 million and serves as the List of Australian capital cities of Victoria ....
. In 2007 a bypass road, known as the northern distributor road, was opened for use after decades of planning. Orange is also serviced by a regional-class airport, Orange Airport
Orange Airport

Orange Airport is an airport in Orange, New South Wales, New South Wales, Australia....
.

Railways

Orange has two railway stations. The main station, on the Main Western Line
Main Western railway line, New South Wales

The Main Western Railway is a major railway in New South Wales, Australia. It runs through the Blue Mountains , Central West, New South Wales, North West Slopes, New South Wales and the Far West, New South Wales regions....
 to Bourke
Bourke, New South Wales

Bourke is a town and Local Government Areas in Australia in the north of New South Wales, Australia. The town is located approximately 800 kilometres north-west of Sydney, on the south bank of the Darling River....
, was opened in 1877 and is served by the daily Countrylink
CountryLink

CountryLink is the operator of passenger rail services in country New South Wales, Australia and from New South Wales into Queensland and Victoria, Australia....
 XPT service between Sydney and Dubbo
Dubbo, New South Wales

Dubbo is a city in the Central West, New South Wales of New South Wales, Australia. It is the largest population centre in the Orana region with a population of 30,574 at the time of the 2006 census, and serves an estimated catchment of 130,000....
 and the weekly Xplorer service between Sydney and Broken Hill
Broken Hill, New South Wales

Broken Hill is an isolated mining city and Local Government Areas of Australia in the far west of outback New South Wales, Australia. The world's largest mining company, BHP Billiton, has roots in the town....
. A smaller station, opened in 1970, known as Orange East Fork, lies on the branch line to Broken Hill
Broken Hill railway line, New South Wales

The Broken Hill railway line is now part of the transcontinental railway from Sydney to Perth, Western Australia.New South Wales's first line opened from Sydney to Parramatta Junction in 1855 and was extended as the Main Western railway line, New South Wales in stages to Orange, New South Wales in 1877....
 and is served by the twice-weekly Indian Pacific
Indian Pacific

|}The Indian Pacific is a twice-weekly passenger Rail transport service running between Perth, Western Australia and Sydney, Australia operated by Great Southern Railway , with locomotives provided by Pacific National, usually led by an NR class....
 service to Perth
Perth, Western Australia

Perth is the List of Australian capital cities and largest city of the Australian States and territories of Australia of Western Australia. With a population of 1,554,769 , Perth ranks fourth amongst the nation's cities, with a growth rate consistently above the national average....
.

Sister cities

Orange is a sister city to: Mount Hagen
Mount Hagen

Mount Hagen is third largest city in Papua New Guinea. It is the capital of the Western Highlands, Papua New Guinea and is located in the large fertile Wahgi Valley in central mainland Papua New Guinea, at an elevation of ....
, Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea , officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands ....
 Timaru
Timaru

Timaru is a major port city in the southern Canterbury, New Zealand region of New Zealand, located 160 kilometres south of Christchurch, New Zealand and about 200 kilometres north of Dunedin on the eastern Pacific Ocean coast of the South Island....
, New Zealand
New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
 Ushiku, Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
 Orange, California
Orange, California

The City of Orange is located in Orange County, California, United States. It is approximately 3 miles north of the county seat, Santa Ana, California....
, United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...


Notable citizens

  • Billy Bevan
    Billy Bevan

    Billy Bevan , was an Australia film actor. He appeared in 254 films between 1916 in film and 1950 in film.Bevan broke into films with the Sigmund Lubin studio in 1916....
    , actor
  • Sir Charles Cutler
    Charles Cutler

    Sir Charles Benjamin Cutler, Order of the British Empire, Efficiency Decoration was an Australian politician, holding office for 28 years as an elected member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, who served as NSW Deputy Premier of New South Wales for 10 years and National Party of Australia leader for 16 years....
     (politician)
  • Tim Gartrell
    Tim Gartrell

    Tim Gartrell is the former National Secretary of the Australian Labor Party of the Australian Labor Party.Born and raised in Orange, New South Wales in Central Western NSW, he worked as an advocate and researcher for the Australian Services Union and the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union while studying politics part-time at the...
     Australian Labor Party
    Australian Labor Party

    The Australian Labor Party is an List of political parties in Australia.Known as the Australian Labor Party#Etymology for short, the party is the current governing party of Australia, since the Australian federal election, 2007....
  • Sir Neville Howse VC
    Neville Howse

    Major General Sir Neville Reginald Howse Victoria Cross, Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, Order of St Michael and St George was an Australian soldier and politician....
     (military service - Australia's first Victoria Cross recipient, physician, politician)
  • Frederick Hanson
    Frederick Hanson

    Frederick John Hanson , was the Commissioner of the New South Wales Police from 15 November 1972 until his retirement in 1976....
     (New South Wales Police Commissioner)
  • Banjo Paterson
    Banjo Paterson

    Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson was a famous Australian bush poet, journalist and author. He wrote many ballads and poems about Australian life, focusing particularly on the rural and outback areas, including the district around Binalong, New South Wales where he spent much of his childhood....
     (poet)
  • Mark Furze
    Mark Furze

    Mark Furze is an Australian actor who is best known for his role as Eric "Ric" Dalby on the popular soap opera Home and Away. Mark has been playing Ric from late 2004- 2008....
     (actor)
  • Kenneth Slessor
    Kenneth Slessor

    Kenneth Adolf Slessor was an Australian poet and journalist. He was one of Australia's leading poets, notable particularly for the absorption of modernist influences into Australian poetry....
     (poet)
  • Murray Cook
    Murray Cook

    Murray Cook is an Australian vocalist, songwriter and guitarist. He is best known as one of the founding members of the children's band The Wiggles....
     (Red Wiggle
    The Wiggles

    The Wiggles are a children's music formed in Sydney, Australia in 1991. Their original members were Anthony Field, Murray Cook, Greg Page, Jeff Fatt and Phillip Wilcher....
    )


See also



External links

  • from the Australian Bureau of Statistics
    Australian Bureau of Statistics

    File:ABS House.jpgThe Australian Bureau of Statistics is Australia's national statistics government agency. It came into being, as the Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics, on 8 December 1905, when the Census and Statistics Act 1905 was given Royal assent....
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