Tomago
in Port Stephens Shire of New South Wales, Australia
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Canberra International Airport (9.293 mi) - Sydney Kingsford Smith International Airport (9.439 mi)
- Aeropelican Airport (9.501 mi)
- Cessnock Airport (9.502 mi)
- Singleton Airport (9.505 mi)
- Maitland Airport (9.512 mi)
- Scone Airport (9.517 mi)
- Newcastle Airport (9.522 mi)
- Forster (Wallis Is) Airport (9.578 mi)
- Taree Airport (9.595 mi)
- Greater Blue Mountains Area (Unesco heritage, 9.469 mi)
- Australian Convict Sites (Unesco heritage, 9.496 mi)
- Sydney Opera House (Unesco heritage, 9.528 mi)
- Pokolbin Golf Course & Country Resort (Golf course, 9.501 mi)
- Belmont Golf Club (Golf course, 9.502 mi)
- Waratah Golf Club (Golf course, 9.507 mi)
- Charlestown Golf Club (Golf course, 9.507 mi)
- Merewether Golf Club (Golf course, 9.511 mi)
- Beresfield Golf Course (Golf course, 9.514 mi)
- Newcastle Golf Club (Golf course, 9.517 mi)
- Pacific Dunes Golf Club (Golf course, 9.525 mi)
- Tanilba Bay Golf Club (Golf course, 9.531 mi)
- The Palms Golf Club (Golf course, 9.532 mi)
- Decimal Coordinates (Latitude, Longitude):
- 0.000 and 0.000 (Lat./Lng.)
- Coordinates by Time:
- N 0° 0' 0" and E 0° 0' 0"
- Currency and Currency Code:
- Dollar - AUD
- Spoken languages:
- English
- Local electricity:
- Mobile phone / cellular frequencies (MHz):
- Local Time: 07:41 PM (Thursday)
- Timezone: Australia/Sydney
- UTC/GMT offset: 9.5 hours
- Sunrise and Sunset:
- 7:52 am and 7:59 pm
- Antipode Coordinates:
- 36.950 and -25.167 (Lat./Lng.)
- Closest place to antipode coordinates:
Areias - References
- This place on Geonames.org
Explore Tomago
The district Tomago of in Port Stephens Shire (New South Wales) is located in Australia about 225 mi north-east of Canberra, the country's capital.
If you need a place to sleep, we compiled a list of available hotels close to the map centre further down the page.
Depending on your travel schedule, you might want to pay a visit to some of the following locations: Sydney, Parramatta, Katoomba, Canberra and Carrolls Creek. To further explore this place, just scroll down and browse the available info.
Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 20°C / 67 °F
| Morning Temperature | 15°C / 59 °F |
| Evening Temperature | 16°C / 60 °F |
| Night Temperature | 15°C / 58 °F |
| Chance of rainfall | 0% |
| Air Humidity | 61% |
| Air Pressure | 1030 hPa |
| Wind Speed | Light breeze with 5 km/h (3 mph) from West |
| Cloud Conditions | Clear sky, covering 1% of sky |
| General Conditions | Light rain |
Friday, 10th of May 2024
19°C (66 °F)
12°C (54 °F)
Light rain, light breeze, overcast clouds.
Saturday, 11th of May 2024
15°C (58 °F)
13°C (55 °F)
Light rain, calm, overcast clouds.
Sunday, 12th of May 2024
16°C (61 °F)
13°C (56 °F)
Light rain, light breeze, broken clouds.
Hotels and Places to Stay
Airport Motel Sir Francis Drake
NEWCASTLE AIRPORT MOTOR INN AND CONV
BLUEGUM APARTMENTS
Jesmond Executive Villas
Travellers Motor Village
Colonial Terrace Motor Inn
Bluegum Apartments
Sleepy Hill Motor Inn
Hotel Jesmond
Tomago Village - Aspen Workforce Parks
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
University of Newcastle (Australia)
The University of Newcastle (UoN, informally known as Newcastle University) is an Australian public university established in 1965. The University's primary campus is located at Callaghan, a suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales. The University also operates from campuses at Ourimbah, Port Macquarie, Singapore and the central business districts of Newcastle and Sydney.
Hexham, New South Wales
Hexham is a suburb of the city of Newcastle, about 15 kilometres inland from Newcastle in New South Wales, Australia on the bank of the Hunter River. Settlement occurred at Hexham in the 1820s when the land was granted to Edward Sparke.
2HD
2HD is an Australian radio station, serving the lower Hunter Region. It operates at 1143 kHz on the AM band, from its studios along the Pacific Highway in the Newcastle suburb of Sandgate. Its power output is 2 kW. The station also has a translator in Port Stephens, on 97.5 MHz in the FM band. It is owned by Broadcast Operations Group (itself owned by Bill Caralis), and is a sister station to New FM.
Division of Newcastle
The Division of Newcastle is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. The Division is centred around the city of Newcastle, after which it is named. The Division was proclaimed in 1900, and was one of the original 75 divisions to be contested at the first Federal election. The Division was named after the city of Newcastle, around which the Division is centred.
Warabrook railway station
Warabrook railway station (also called Warabrook) is a station on the Hunter line, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. It is one of the newest stations built on the line and consists of an island platform. The station serves the nearby University of Newcastle, and was opened on 23 October 1995, after a campaign by the Newcastle University Students' Association.
Sandgate railway station, New South Wales
Sandgate is a railway station on the Hunter line section of the Main North railway line, north of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. The station was opened in 1881 and the construction was originally called Grant's Creek. It serves the suburb of Sandgate, and once had a branch line which served Sandgate Cemetery. However, trains to Sandgate Cemetery did not stop at Sandgate station—the previous station was Waratah.
Hexham railway station, New South Wales
Hexham is a railway station on the Main North railway line, (which CityRail markets as the Hunter Line), in the western suburbs of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. Hexham is mainly a commercial and industrial area located north of the station. A large swamp is located to the south. It originally had a substantial brick platform building, however this was demolished in the 1990s and replaced with a lightweight bus-shelter type structure.
Tarro railway station
Tarro is a railway station on the Hunter Line, in the city of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. It serves the small suburb of Tarro. Tarro is served by CityRail's diesel Railcars to Newcastle, Maitland and Telarah.
Beresfield railway station
Beresfield is a railway station on the Main North railway line, (which CityRail markets as the Hunter Line), in the western suburbs of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. In 2002 Beresfield was fully redeveloped and includes new easy access facilities, station signage and booking office. Beresfield was the site of a major rail accident when on 23 October 1997, a coal train collided into the rear of another coal train standing on the same tracks. The cause was a failure to stop at a signal.
Sandgate, New South Wales
Sandgate is a suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, located 11 kilometres from Newcastle's central business district. It is part of the City of Newcastle local government area. It has a railway station on the Hunter Line. Sandgate is also home to the largest cemetery in Newcastle, including a now-derelict rail-head station, formerly used by funeral trains.
Kooragang Island
Kooragang Island is located in the Hunter River of New South Wales, Australia and is the site of a deep water port for the export of coal. In 2007, 84.8 million metric tons of coal were exported from the port, making it one of the busiest in the world. The infrastructure is being improved, for example with the Sandgate Flyover, this will allow the port to export 140 million tons of coal a year after 2010. The port first opened in about 1984.
Tarro, New South Wales
Tarro is a north-western suburb of the Newcastle City Council local government area in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia. It, and parts of nearby Beresfield, was originally known as Upper Hexham, "lower" Hexham being an older settlement located about 5 kilometres to the east on the Hunter River. The name "Tarro" reportedly means "stone" in an Aboriginal language.
Warabrook, New South Wales
Warabrook is a north-western suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, located 8 kilometres from Newcastle's central business district. It is part of the City of Newcastle local government area. It has a railway station (opened in 1997 to serve the nearby University of Newcastle in Callaghan and Warabrook) on CityRail's Hunter line. The railway line is part of the Newcastle-Maitland line, the first section of the Main North line from Sydney to the New England region, opened in 1857.
Callaghan, New South Wales
Callaghan is a suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia 10 kilometres from Newcastle's central business district. It contains the main campus of the University of Newcastle. It is served by Warabrook station on CityRail's Hunter line. The suburb was named after Sir Bede Callaghan (1912-1993), Chancellor of the University of Newcastle from 1977 to 1988.
Woodberry, New South Wales
Woodberry is one of the eastern-most suburbs of the City of Maitland in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia. Most of the population lives in residential subdivisions while almost 84% of the suburbs land is rural in nature. It lies to the west of the Hunter River, 2.4 kilometres of which forms the suburb's eastern border, separating it from Heatherbrae and Tomago in the Port Stephens local government area.
Tomago, New South Wales
Tomago is a combined industrial/semi-rural suburb of the Port Stephens local government area in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia. It is located just north of the Hunter River and west of the body of water known as Fullerton Cove. Tomago means "sweet water" in the local Aboriginal language.
Mayfield North, New South Wales
Mayfield North is a suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. It is basically an industrial estate, which extends north to the south arm of the Hunter River, west to Tourle Street, and south to Industrial Drive. Originally the estate comprised CSR Chemicals, Titans, Koppers, and part of the BHP Steelworks (No2 Merchant Mill, Rod Mill, Limestone Kiln and Spares Yard).
Mayfield West, New South Wales
Mayfield West is a suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, located 8 kilometres from Newcastle's central business district. It is part of the City of Newcastle local government area.
Maryland, New South Wales
Maryland is a suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, located 14 kilometres from Newcastle's central business district. It is part of the City of Newcastle local government area. Maryland has two public and one private school, a skatepark and a shopping complex. Maryland lies on the 230 government bus route
Shortland, New South Wales
Shortland is a suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, located 12 kilometres from Newcastle's central business district. It is part of the City of Newcastle local government area and was named after Lt. John Shortland, master's mate of the Sirius, the escorting vessel to the First Fleet.
Tomago aluminium smelter
The Tomago aluminium smelter is located at Tomago, New South Wales, Australia, approximately 13 km West of Newcastle. It is a major industrial site in the Port Stephens LGA. The smelter has a production capacity of 520,000 tonnes of aluminium (ingot, billet and slab) per year. It is operated by Tomago Aluminium Company, a joint venture owned by: Rio Tinto Alcan, 51.55% Gove Aluminium Finance Ltd, 36.05% (owned 70% by CSR Limited and 30% by AMP Limited) Hydro Aluminium, 12.40%
Heatherbrae, New South Wales
Heatherbrae is a suburb of the Port Stephens local government area in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia. The suburb lies to the east of the Hunter River and to the south of the town of Raymond Terrace. It is bisected by the Pacific Highway. At the 2011 census it had a population of 492. Most of the population lives to the west of the Pacific Highway in a housing subdivision while some residents live to the east of the highway in a semi-industrial area.
Hunter Estuary Wetlands
The Hunter Estuary Wetlands comprise a group of associated wetlands at and near the mouth of the Hunter River in the city of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. Some 30 km of the wetlands has been recognised as being of international importance by designation under the Ramsar Convention. It was listed on 21 February 1984 as Ramsar site 287. A larger area of the wetlands has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA).
Newcastle Motordrome
Newcastle Motordrome was a Dirt track racing venue located on the Old Punt Road in Tomago, New South Wales, just north of the Hunter River and 12 kilometres north of the city of Newcastle. The ¼-mile speedway operated from its opening in 1977 until it was sold in 2002. The site of the Motordrome is now warehouses and light industrial factories.
Forgacs Shipyard Tomago
Forgacs Shipyard is a shipbuilding company located at Tomago, New South Wales on the Hunter River. The shipyard was opened in 1957 by John Laverick at Carrington and was known as Carrington Slipways. By 1972, the business required larger premises and moved to Tomago. The shipyard was bought by Forgacs Engineering in 1997.
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