Mount Pleasant, New South Wales

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Mount Pleasant
Wollongong, New South Wales

Population:

928 (2001)

Postcode:

2519

Area:

0.5 km²

Location:

6 km from Wollongong

LGA:

Wollongong

State District:

Keira

Federal Division:

Cunningham

Suburbs around Mount Pleasant
	Balgownie	Fairy Meadow
	Mount Pleasant	Mount Ousley
Mount Keira		Keiraville

This article is about a suburb of Wollongong. For an area in Penrith, see Cranebrook, New South Wales.

Mount Pleasant (34°23′S, 150°52′E) is a suburb in the city of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. It is situated in a part of the NSW South Coast known as the Illawarra.

[edit] History

John Dingwall owned land in the Mount Pleasant area. He named it after another estate which belonged to him. The village of Mount Pleasant, located on the mountainside, developed after the opening of the Mount Pleasant mine in 1861.^[1]