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unusual facts about Hunter River



1804 in Australia

24 March – The settlement at the Hunter River, also known as the Coal River, is officially named Newcastle.

Helena Scott

In 1846 the family moved from Sydney to the remote Ash Island in the Hunter River estuary, near Hexham.

June 2007 Hunter Region and Central Coast storms

On the evening of Sunday 10 June, approximately 4,000 residents in riverside communities of central Maitland, South Maitland and Lorn were forced to evacuate their homes in anticipation that the Hunter River would breach its levee system.


see also

Sémillon

Sémillon is widely grown in Australia, particularly in the Hunter Valley north of Sydney, where for a long time it was known as "Hunter River Riesling".

Wallace Battery

Wallace Battery was an artillery battery located on the northern side of the entrance to the Hunter River at Stockton, New South Wales, Australia.