Orient Point, New South Wales
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Orient Point is a small village in the Shoalhaven area of New South Wales
, Australia
. It is located on the southern side of the mouth of the Shoalhaven River and adjoins the village of Culburra
to the south. The Jerringa Aboriginal
Mission is located near the village. At the 2006 census
, Orient Point had a population of 504 people.
, was probably the first to establish a farm at Orient Point.
New South Wales
New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
. It is located on the southern side of the mouth of the Shoalhaven River and adjoins the village of Culburra
Culburra Beach, New South Wales
Culburra Beach, commonly referred to as Culburra, is in the Shoalhaven region of New South Wales, Australia. It is 18 km east-southeast of Nowra on the South Coast...
to the south. The Jerringa Aboriginal
Australian Aborigines
Australian Aborigines , also called Aboriginal Australians, from the latin ab originem , are people who are indigenous to most of the Australian continentthat is, to mainland Australia and the island of Tasmania...
Mission is located near the village. At the 2006 census
Census in Australia
The Australian census is administered once every five years by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The most recent census was conducted on 9 August 2011; the next will be conducted in 2016. Prior to the introduction of regular censuses in 1961, they had also been run in 1901, 1911, 1921, 1933,...
, Orient Point had a population of 504 people.
History
A shepherd named Patrick Caffey, who worked for Alexander Berry, the man who gave his name to the nearby town of BerryBerry, New South Wales
Berry is a small Australian town in the Shoalhaven region of the NSW South Coast in the state of New South Wales, located south of the state capital, Sydney. The indigenous people of the area were the Wodi Wodi people. In the 1810s, George William Evans, Government Surveyor, reported on the Berry...
, was probably the first to establish a farm at Orient Point.