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| | Batemans Bay - New South Wales - Australia - Travel - smh.com.au |
 | | Located 279 km south of Sydney via the Princes Highway, Batemans Bay, at the mouth of the Clyde River, is both a tourist and retirement resort and a service and commercial centre for the local sawmilling, wattlebark production, dairying, cattle-rearing, agriculture, fishing and oyster-farming industries. |
 | | In 1892, the year gold was discovered at Batemans Bay, the population of the township was still only 200, with the same number at Mogo and some 500 at Nelligen. |
 | | Batemans Bay is surrounded by state forests - the Boyne, Benandrah, Mogo, Kioloa, Bolaro and Buckenbowra - and by Murramarang National Park. |
| www.smh.com.au /news/New-South-Wales/Batemans-Bay/2005/02/17/1108500192648.html (2536 words) |
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