Industrial Port Kembla
Port Kembla is a suburb of Wollongong 8 km south of the CBD and part of the Illawarra region of New South Wales (NSW). The suburb comprises a seaport, industrial complex, a small harbour foreshore nature reserve, and a small commercial sector.
Wollongong, informally referred to as "The Gong", is a city located in the Illawarra region of NSW, Australia. The name is thought to be derived from the word woolyungah in the language of the Aboriginal inhabitants at the time of settlement, meaning five islands. Wollongong lies on the narrow coastal strip between the Illawarra Escarpment and the Pacific Ocean, 85 km south of central Sydney. Wollongong had an estimated urban population of 302,739 in June 2018, making it the third-largest city in New South Wales after Sydney and Newcastle and the 10th-largest city in Australia by population.
Heavy industry was attracted to the region by the ready availability of coal. In 1928, Hoskins, later Australian Iron & Steel, started a steelworks at Port Kembla. The steelworks has grown to become a world-class flat rolled steel producer, operating as a fully-integrated steel plant with a production of around five million tonnes per year. Other industries to have set up in the massive Port Kembla industrial complex - the largest single concentration of heavy industry in Australia - include a fertiliser plant, an electrolytic copper smelter, a locomotive workshop, a coal export shipping terminal, a grain export shipping terminal and an industrial gases manufacturing plant.
Seen from a viewpoint on the Illawarra Escarpment, this is an improved version of a much earlier posting.
Industrial Port Kembla
Port Kembla is a suburb of Wollongong 8 km south of the CBD and part of the Illawarra region of New South Wales (NSW). The suburb comprises a seaport, industrial complex, a small harbour foreshore nature reserve, and a small commercial sector.
Wollongong, informally referred to as "The Gong", is a city located in the Illawarra region of NSW, Australia. The name is thought to be derived from the word woolyungah in the language of the Aboriginal inhabitants at the time of settlement, meaning five islands. Wollongong lies on the narrow coastal strip between the Illawarra Escarpment and the Pacific Ocean, 85 km south of central Sydney. Wollongong had an estimated urban population of 302,739 in June 2018, making it the third-largest city in New South Wales after Sydney and Newcastle and the 10th-largest city in Australia by population.
Heavy industry was attracted to the region by the ready availability of coal. In 1928, Hoskins, later Australian Iron & Steel, started a steelworks at Port Kembla. The steelworks has grown to become a world-class flat rolled steel producer, operating as a fully-integrated steel plant with a production of around five million tonnes per year. Other industries to have set up in the massive Port Kembla industrial complex - the largest single concentration of heavy industry in Australia - include a fertiliser plant, an electrolytic copper smelter, a locomotive workshop, a coal export shipping terminal, a grain export shipping terminal and an industrial gases manufacturing plant.
Seen from a viewpoint on the Illawarra Escarpment, this is an improved version of a much earlier posting.