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FORSTER / TUNCURRY AREA

GREAT LAKES, New South Wales, Australia: [Showcases the Great Lakes area, including Forster, Tuncurry, Hawks Nest, Pacific Palms, Bulahdelah, Stroud, Tea Gardens, Smiths Lake, Coomba Park and Nabiac.]

HISTORY SITES

HISTORY OF TUNCURRY, DARAWANK, FAILFORD, NABIAC, WANG WAUK, COOLONGOLOOK and KRAMBACH, New South Wales, Australia: [Aboriginal people coming to Australia, some customs, European exploration and settlement, a tribe (the Biripi people) poisoned, timber, missionaries, shipbuilding, fishing, sharks, shipwrecks, floods and lives of people that built this beautiful, subtropical, coastal area.]

HISTORY of PLACES in AUSTRALIA: [Index of many cities, towns, suburbs and places in Australia with links to Web pages giving a locations' histories.]

DATABASE OF HISTORICAL MATERIALS RELATING TO THE ABORIGINES OF THE NEWCASTLE-LAKE MACQUARIE REGION New South Wales, Australia: [100s of digitised documents and materials about the Awabakal people and language]

FAMILY HISTORIES

FROM THE ISLAND OF LIPARI (ITALY) TO TUNCURRY, New South Wales, Australia: [Phillipo Sciacca arrived in Australia in 1889. He and his heirs founded a prosperous fishing industry at Forster/ Tuncurry. His sons started the Sydney Fish Markets. This is their story.]

MUSEUMS

Great Lakes Museum: [Forster / Tuncurry and Great Lakes Region of New South Wales]

Australian War Memorial, Canberra: [Australia's National War Museum]

National Museum of Australia, Canberra

Australian Museum, Sydney

Powerhouse Museum, Sydney

Jeath Museum, Kanchanaburi, Thailand: [Is on site of one of the Camps. Has replicas of the "attaps" (bamboo huts)]

LIBRARIES

National Library of Australia, Canberra

New South Wales State Library, Sydney

Great Lakes Library, Forster

 

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