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Promotion of on-line history book "The History of Tuncurry, NSW".
at Great Lakes Museum, Tuncurry, NSW, Australia.
, Australia, Tuncurry
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The Great Lakes Museum is promoting the on-line history book "The History of Tuncurry (New South Wales, Australia), which was compiled by Elva Carmichael. The book tell of the Aboriginal people coming to Australia, some of their customs, European exploration and settlement, timber, shipbuilding, fishing, shipwrecks, floods and the lives of some of the people that make up the history of the beautiful, subtropical, coastal Australian town of Tuncurry.
The web site is: http://greatlakeshistorical.museum.com/welcome.html
Tuncurry sits on the northern side of the ocean entrance to Wallis Lake (New South Wales' largest coastal lake) about three and a half hours drive north of Sydney (between Newcastle and Port Macquarie). It is linked to its twin town of Forster by a bridge across the lake.
Also included in the book is some history of the villages of Darawank, Failford, Nabiac, Wang Wauk, Coolongolook and Krambach.
Histories of other nearby towns and villages (Forster, Tiona, Pacific Palms, Smith's Lake, Coomba and Bungwahl)can be found in the museum's other on-line book "The History of Forster" at http://greatlakesmuseum.com
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