358:"John Brown of Brownsville: his manuscripts, letterbook and the records of Dapto Show Society 1857-1904" edited by Joseph Davis, deals with the man who did most to protect the vegetation of the Lake Islands. The second of these books, titled "Gooseberry & Hooka: the island reserves of Lake Illawarra 1829-1947" edited by Joseph Davis, records by John Brown and others", deals with the history of these two islands and how they have survived to become nature refuges rather than recreation reserves. Davis also did an earlier lavishly illustrated book for The Lake Illawarra Authority entitled "Lake Illawarra: an ongoing history (Davis, Joseph, 1956- vi, 175 p. : ill. maps, ports., facsims) in 2005.
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346:"The main plant of the smelting works consisted of three blast furnaces, roasting plant, refinery, sulphuric acid plant, steam engines, blowing engines, pumps and a foundry…The products from the works were Dore bullion (gold and silver conglomerate), soft lead and a high-grade copper matte containing gold silver and lead." (O'Malley, 1950, p. 8)
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Numbers of employees at the plant peaked at between four and five hundred. Half of the employee population lived in tents and there was a group of fifty in the clump of swamp oaks just north of the works. The success of the smelting works lead to Dapto being a boom town in the early 1900s. The report
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The Lake
Illawarra Authority has published two more books about the Lake in 2012 which focus on the suburb of Brownsville, its history and the role of John Brown in saving the islands known as Gooseberry and Hooka which lie not far from Kanahooka Point—though over towards Berkeley. The first book,
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In 1890 a parliamentary act was passed authorising the
Illawarra Harbour and Land Corporation to begin projects near Dapto that would involve an outlay of many hundreds of thousands of pounds. The scheme involved building a channel through Lake Illawarra to allow oceangoing vessels to come up to
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With the opening of the railway the
Smelting Company of Australia Ltd. had been formed and with the backing of overseas capital a large smelting works was established. "The site chosen for the works was an elevated one, contiguous to Mullet Creek and about half a mile from its mouth. The more
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northerly of "the Twins" - two similar hills - was decapitated, thus providing a series of levels to which the ores would gravitate, in the various processes from bins to crushing and roasting plants, then to the blast furnaces before being sent to the refinery." (O'Malley, 1950, p. 6)
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The establishment of the Dapto
Smelting Works was an important part of Kanahooka's history. The Dapto Smelting Works came about through the ill-fated "Lake Illawarra Harbour Scheme". This scheme gave a great impetus to the growth of the town of Dapto in the early 1900s.
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Quite suddenly in 1905 everything folded, competition cut off the supply of ore from
Western Australia and Broken Hill, an ambitious scheme for treating nickel from New Caledonia came to nothing and in 1905 the works closed. (McDonald, 1976; O'Malley, 1950)
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is a southern suburb in
Wollongong City Council. It has a few shops and a playground. Situated on Lake Illawarra is a Park with a playground. It has a public school (Hayes Park Public School) and a high school (Kanahooka High School).
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The works were operating at full production by 1899 and were prosperous for several years. They treated lead, silver, zinc, copper and gold from Broken Hill, Zeehan, Mount Morgan and
Western Australia.
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Elizabeth Point, a short distance north of
Kanahooka Point. A railway was also built at a cost of 42,000 pounds to allow coal to be brought from a local colliery to be loaded onto the ships.
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of the
Commissioner for Railways for 1903 declared Dapto the most valuable station on the Illawarra line, its goods transfer totalling 22,000 pounds.
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388:Australian Bureau of Statistics
146:95 km (59 mi) SSW of
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158:27 km (17 mi) N of
152:13 km (8 mi) SW of
1098:Five Islands Nature Reserve
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392:"Kanahooka (State Suburb)"
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916:Shellharbour City Centre
1088:Budderoo National Park
449:Suburbs and localities
396:2021 Census QuickStats
1155:Suburbs of Wollongong
971:Upper Kangaroo Valley
368:Kanahooka High School
136:4 m (13 ft)
1119:Illawarra escarpment
95:34.4917°S 150.8083°E
1134:Saddleback Mountain
1093:Royal National Park
894:Saddleback Mountain
656:Farmborough Heights
233:Federal division(s)
217:State electorate(s)
91: /
842:Mount Saint Thomas
174:City of Wollongong
100:-34.4917; 150.8083
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1033:Yellow Rock
996:Willow Vale
986:Werri Beach
921:Spring Hill
899:Scarborough
884:Rose Valley
873:Port Kembla
822:Mount Keira
762:Kiama Downs
749:Kemblawarra
702:Helensburgh
691:Gwynneville
542:Brownsville
469:Albion Park
259:Brownsville
124:Postcode(s)
116:2021 census
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73:Coordinates
1114:Bulli Pass
1018:Wongawilli
1007:Wollongong
936:Tarrawanna
904:Shell Cove
817:Minnamurra
777:Koonawarra
733:Keiraville
681:Gerringong
559:Calderwood
453:Wollongong
374:References
296:Koonawarra
226:Wollongong
210:Calderwood
154:Wollongong
111:Population
86:150°48.5′E
30:Wollongong
981:Warrawong
966:Unanderra
961:Tullimbar
951:Toolijooa
862:Oak Flats
807:Mangerton
728:Kanahooka
676:Foxground
636:Dombarton
619:Curramore
579:Coalcliff
569:Cleveland
527:Blackbutt
502:Balgownie
480:Austinmer
319:Kanahooka
278:Kanahooka
186:Illawarra
133:Elevation
83:34°29.5′S
60:Kanahooka
25:Kanahooka
1149:Category
1013:Wombarra
956:Towradgi
946:Tongarra
941:Thirroul
792:Lilyvale
718:Jamberoo
671:Flinders
661:Fernhill
609:Cringila
604:Corrimal
594:Cordeaux
589:Coniston
584:Coledale
522:Berkeley
517:Bellambi
496:Balarang
490:Avondale
362:See also
326:Smelting
267:Berkeley
263:Berkeley
141:Location
1023:Woonona
1001:Windang
976:Warilla
879:Primbee
723:Jerrara
713:Huntley
708:Horsley
666:Figtree
641:Dunmore
574:Clifton
401:29 July
250:Suburbs
238:Whitlam
32:,
1078:other
1028:Yallah
867:Otford
686:Gerroa
205:Parish
198:Camden
193:County
181:Region
169:LGA(s)
148:Sydney
756:Kiama
625:Dapto
614:Croom
548:Bulli
532:Bombo
291:Dapto
274:Dapto
160:Kiama
485:Avon
403:2024
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