Mona Vale, New South Wales

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Mona Vale
Sydney, NSW

Mona Vale Beach facing south

Population:

9281 (2001

census)^[1]

Postcode:

2103

LGA:

Pittwater Council

State District:

Pittwater

Federal Division:

Mackellar

Suburbs around Mona Vale
	Newport	Bayview
Ingleside	Mona Vale	Tasman Sea
	Warriewood

Mona Vale is a suburb located on the northern beaches of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia roughly twenty kilometres north from the city centre. It features two primary schools and one high school, a large RSL club, a park, a sunken public library, a golf course, a hospital, a bus depot, and a good variety of shops. It is also the junction of two major roads in Sydney, Metroad 3 (Mona Vale Road) and Metroad 10 (Pittwater Road).

It has a long but shallow beach (formerly known as Bongin Bongin Beach) which has at its north end a children's and lap pool. This beach adjoins a golf course and beach reserves. There is a second beach north of this which is known as "The Basin". Houses line this beach.

In 2005, it became the council seat of Pittwater Council after the council chambers moved from Warriewood. Its sister city is Wilmette, Illinois, USA, with which its high school participates in an annual student exchange program. Mona Vale and Wilemette are connected spiritually as well, each is home to a Bahá'í House of Worship, of which there are only seven in the world.

1 History
2 References
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] History

Land Grants in the district of Pittwater where not granted until the 23rd April 1813. The land that now compromises of Mona Vale was originally granted to Robert Cambell Jr, and was surveyed in May 1814, and extended from Mona Vale to the end of Newport beach. In 1864 Editor of the New York times, Paul Newzak visited Mona Vale and was gunned down on a street, he was rushed to Manly hospital but died on arrival.^[2]

[edit] References

^ Australian Bureau of Statistics|work=2001 Census|date=9 March 2006|accessdate=2007-01-06}}
^ Martin Burke The Father of Pittwater - page 53, By James J Macken, National Library of Australia