Mount Kembla

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Mount Kembla is a suburb and a mountain in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia. Mount Kembla is 6 kilometres (4 miles) west of Wollongong and 72 kilometres (45 miles) south of Sydney in the City of Wollongong. The suburb is a semi-rural township of Wollongong. It is named after the adjacent Mount Kembla, which is located on the Illawarra escarpment. The summit has an elevation of 534 metres (1, 752 ft) above sea level. The name Mount Kembla is derived from an Aboriginal word, kembla, meaning "plenty of game". The satellite localities of Kembla Heights, Windy Gully, Cordeaux Valley and Kembla Village are also parts of the suburb of Mount Kembla, which at the time of the 2021 census, had a population of 1,083. The area surrounding Mount Kembla is a coal mining area, notable for the Mount Kembla Mine disaster of 1902 in which 96 people died.

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