Tralee is a future planned suburb of Queanbeyan, New South Wales

Queanbeyan, New South Wales

Queanbeyan is a regional centre in the Southern Tablelands in south-eastern New South Wales adjacent to the Australian Capital Territory. The city's mixed economy is based on light construction, high technology, manufacturing, service, retail and agriculture. It is the council seat of the...

. It lies south of Jerrabomberra and the site once planned for the future city of Environa

Environa, New South Wales

Environa was a failed real estate development on the border of the ACT and New South Wales .It has long been abandoned, however the original street designs can still be seen on local maps and online sources such as Google Maps.The land itself was originally a subdivision of the grazing...

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The residential site, which falls under the flight path of Canberra Airport was strongly opposed by airport authorities. However, despite the concerns, the New South Wales State Planning Minister Kristina Keneally

Kristina Keneally

Kristina Kerscher Keneally MP, is an Australian politician and was the 42nd Premier of New South Wales. She was elected leader of the Australian Labor Party in New South Wales and thus Premier in 2009, but went on to lose government to the Liberal/National Coalition at the March 2011 state election...

 initially approved Queanbeyan City Council's plan for the development of 5000 residential blocks in 2008. The New South Wales Government is currently in the process of rezoning the land, despite continuing protest.

Geography

Tralee lies on the lower slopes of the Pemberton Hill to the south. It is 600–620 m (1,968.5–2,034.1 ft) above sea level

Above mean sea level

The term above mean sea level refers to the elevation or altitude of any object, relative to the average sea level datum. AMSL is used extensively in radio by engineers to determine the coverage area a station will be able to reach...

. The rocks are acid volcanics, rhyodacite

Rhyodacite

Rhyodacite is an extrusive volcanic rock intermediate in composition between dacite and rhyolite. It is the extrusive equivalent of granodiorite. Phenocrysts of sodium rich plagioclase, sanidine, quartz, and biotite or hornblende are typically set in an aphanitic to glassy light to intermediate...

 and rhyolite

Rhyolite

This page is about a volcanic rock. For the ghost town see Rhyolite, Nevada, and for the satellite system, see Rhyolite/Aquacade.Rhyolite is an igneous, volcanic rock, of felsic composition . It may have any texture from glassy to aphanitic to porphyritic...

 from the Deakin Vocanics. These rocks solidified 414±9 Mya.