Tarrawanna is a northern suburb of

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, Australia, extending westward from the

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over the

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. Tarrawanna's main street Meadow Street has a few shops including cafes, a brewery, a Thai restaurant, a post office, a fish and chips shop and a grocer.

Education

Tarrawanna has a primary school, Tarrawanna Public School on Kendall Street.

Culture

Seminal Australian grunge band

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named its 2003 anthology "Rocket To Tarrawanna" in honour of the suburb where its members lived and met.

References

External links

*http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/resources/cultureheritage/illawarraAboriginalHistoryPoster.pdf *https://web.archive.org/web/20080721031255/http://www.southerncouncils.nsw.gov.au/vegetation/p579.html vegetation *https://web.archive.org/web/20080720061453/http://southerncouncils.nsw.gov.au/vegetation/bellambi.htm map with vegetation marked *https://web.archive.org/web/20080606182717/http://www.wollongong.nsw.gov.au/Residents/1048.asp Tarrawanna Community Hall *http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20090519005046/http://wcc.wollongong.nsw.gov.au/PolicyRegister/TP%2095.6%20Foothills%20View%20Estate%20Tarrawanna.pdf Suburbs of Wollongong {{Wollongong-geo-stub