Sulphur Creek is a locality and small rural community in the local government area of Central Coast, in the North West region of

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. It is located about south-east of the town of

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Bass Strait Bass Strait () is a strait separating the island state of Tasmania from the Mainland Australia, Australian mainland (more specifically the coast of Victoria (Australia), Victoria, with the exception of the land border across Boundary Islet). The ...

forms the northern boundary of the locality. The 2021 census determined a population of 631 for the state suburb of Sulphur Creek.

History

A watercourse named Sulphur Creek flows through the locality to Bass Strait. It is likely that the locality was named for the creek, which is believed to have been so named due to a

sulphur Sulfur (American spelling and the preferred IUPAC name) or sulphur (English in the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth spelling) is a chemical element; it has Symbol (chemistry), symbol S and atomic number 16. It is abundance of the chemical ...

-like smell in the area when first explored by Europeans.

Road infrastructure

The C118 route (Nine Mile Road) intersects with the Bass Highway at the north-western extremity of the locality, from where it runs south through

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before passing through the locality and providing access to many others.

References

{{authority control Localities of Central Coast Council (Tasmania) Towns in Tasmania