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Port Kembla is located on the New South Wales Leisure Coast in the Illawarra region, and is a southern suburb of Wollongong.

The town is host to the BHP steelworks and plays a major role in seabound shipping between Australia and overseas. The town is the main heavy industrial hub of the Illawarra region.

The town is home to quite a large mix of cultural backgrounds due to families flocking to the area after World War 2 seeking to set up a new life for themselves. Port Kembla is services by heavy passenger rail and a number of bus routes and features a mix of private and public housing and offers a beautiful beach to the south of the town centre as well as a lookout at Hill 60 which was once used in defence efforts.

• Population: 5014 1
• Postcode: 2505
• Location: 93 km south of Sydney and 9 km south of Wollongong
• Main Roads: Springhill Rd B65, Five Islands Rd B65 and Shellharbour Rd B65
• Radio Stations: FM: 2KY Racing Radio (103.7 MHz), 2MM (99.3 MHz), 2RPH (93.3 MHz), ABC Classic (95.7 MHz), ABC Illawarra (97.3 MHz), ABC News on Radio (90.9 MHz), Faith FM (87.6 MHz), Kix Country (105.3 MHz), i98 (98.1 MHz), Mac FM (88.0 MHz), Power FM (94.9 MHz), Pulse 94.1 (94.1 MHz), Radio Hertz (100.7 MHz), Triple J (98.9 MHz), Vox FM (106.9 MHz) and Wave FM (96.5 MHz). AM: 2KY Racing Radio (1314 kHz), 2ST (999 kHz), ABC Radio Sydney (702 kHz), ABC RN (1431 kHz), Rete Italia (1575 kHz) and SBS Radio (1035 kHz)

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	Port Kembla Beach: View of Port Kembla Beach from Hill 60, April 2011. Image © Paul Rands
	The Five Islands: Some of the Five Islands that dot the Port Kembla coastline, of which an arterial road is named after, April 2011. Image © Paul Rands
	The Five Islands: Some of the Five Islands that dot the Port Kembla coastline, of which an arterial road is named after, April 2011. Image © Paul Rands
	Port Kembla: View of the Port Kembla town centre and industrial zone, April 2011. The smelter stack in the centre of the photo was demolished recently. Image © Paul Rands
	Port Kembla: View of Port Kembla from Mount Nebo on the Illawarra Escarpment, April 2011. Image © Paul Rands

1 Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census Quickstats 2016, Port Kembla SSC

Last updated: 21-Aug-2020 21:26

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