Tingira Heights, New South Wales

Tingira Heights
Greater Newcastle, New South Wales
Tingira Heights is located in the Hunter-Central Coast Region
Tingira Heights
Tingira Heights
Coordinates32°59′46″S 151°39′36″E / 32.996°S 151.660°E / -32.996; 151.660
Population2,043 (2021 census)[1]
 • Density486/km2 (1,260/sq mi)
Established1960s
Postcode(s)2290
Area4.2 km2 (1.6 sq mi)
Location
LGA(s)City of Lake Macquarie
ParishKahibah
State electorate(s)Charlestown
Federal division(s)Hunter
Suburbs around Tingira Heights:
Eleebana Mount Hutton Windale
Eleebana Tingira Heights Jewells
Croudace Bay Floraville Belmont North

Tingira Heights is a suburb of City of Lake Macquarie in New South Wales, Australia, 16 kilometres (10 mi) south-west of Newcastle's central business district on the eastern side of Lake Macquarie. It was developed in the 1960s.

History

The Awabakal are the traditional people of this area.[2]

Prior to 1965, the suburb was called Violet Town. A ship named after the Indigenous tribe Tingira (on the NSW/QLD border) was Australia's first naval training vessel in 1912 and was decommissioned in 1941. In 1965 the H.M.A.S Tingira Old Boys Association asked to have a town named after the ship, and the name was adopted by the Violet Town Progress Association. Tingara is an alternative spelling.[3]

References

  1. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Tingira Heights". 2021 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 21 July 2023. Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ "Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people". Lake Macquarie City Council. Retrieved 8 September 2020.
  3. ^ Pioneers & Settlers of Lake Macquarie, by the Lake Macquarie Family History Group Inc.Priner by LMCC2006


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