Wamoon, New South Wales

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Wamoon
New South Wales

Wamoon Public School
Location: km (5 mi) from Leeton
LGA: Leeton Shire Council
County: Cooper
State District: Murrumbidgee
Federal Division: Riverina

Wamoon is a small town in Leeton Shire in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. Wamoon is located 8km from Leeton along the Irrigation Way to the Leeton CBD and Henry Lawson Drive to the Leeton suburb of Wattle Hill. Wamoon provides a village of homes to the farmers of northern Leeton and there is a small primary school known as Wamoon Public School.

In 1993 Geographical Names Board of New South Wales deleted Wamoon when the village was removed from official government publication of locality names. In May 2006 the Geographical Names Board of New South Wales approved the reinstatement of Wamoon as a village[1][2].

[edit] Notes and References

  1. ^ NSW Government Gazette (pdf). New South Wales Government. Retrieved on 2006-08-06.
  2. ^ "After 12 Years Wamoon is once again a village", Weekend Advertiser, 2006-08-05, pp. 8. 
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Coordinates: 34°31′S, 146°19′E

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