Wyee, New South Wales

Wyee
New South Wales
Wyee
Coordinates 33°10′55″S 151°29′06″E / 33.182°S 151.485°E / -33.182; 151.485Coordinates: 33°10′55″S 151°29′06″E / 33.182°S 151.485°E / -33.182; 151.485
Population 2,588 (2011 census)[1]
Postcode(s) 2259
Location
LGA(s) City of Lake Macquarie
Parish Morisset
State electorate(s) Lake Macquarie
Federal Division(s) Charlton
Localities around Wyee:
Mandalong Morisset Yee Point
Mandalong Wyee Mannering Park
Jilliby Bushells Ridge Doyalson

Wyee is a small town in the Lake Macquarie region of New South Wales, Australia, in the City of Lake Macquarie. It is near the Sydney-Newcastle Freeway and has a railway station (opened 1892)[2] on NSW TrainLink's Central Coast & Newcastle Line. It had a population of 1,487 in 2001, which significantly increased to 2,588 in 2011.

Wyee is said to be derived from an Awabakal Aboriginal term for "fire" or "place of bushfires".[3][4]

Wyee is part of the City of Lake Macquarie but it lacks a connection to sewer system; there are the Hunter Water Sewage Treatment Plant and the Wyong Shire Treatment Plant in the area.

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