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Pambula has a local cricket team, the
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Panboola, the
Pambula wetlands heritage project, is located between the south edge of town and the Pambula River. Panboola contains fresh water billabongs, saline areas around the former racecourse, saltmarsh and mangroves, plantings of thousands of trees, shrubs and ground covers, walking and cycle
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Pambula River flats in the 1830s. The village of Pambula situated on the flats near the river was planned in 1843 by surveyor Townsend and the first school and churches were built there, but frequent flooding led to the village being relocated to its present site on
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name, pronounced "panboola", meaning 'twin waters'. The name was also spelled 'Panbula' by colonial settlers, although
Pambula came to be used for postal purposes. Pambula had become the more commonly used name, by 1915. The official name, recorded by the Lands Department and
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Premiership. Located in between
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Pambula has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:
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42 Toallo St: Pambula Courthouse & Police Station
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964:"Oysters on the Sapphire Coast, New South Wales"
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940:. Bega valley community network. Archived from
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592:New South Wales Electoral Commission
415:Northview Drive: The Historic Grange
679:Angela George; Pat Raymond (2006).
813:"HISTORY OF PAMBALA [sic]"
29:Town in New South Wales, Australia
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847:. 1 September 1967. p. 3242
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412:Princes Highway: Roan Horse Inn
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839:"GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES ACT, 1966"
787:"ALTERING THE NAMES OF PLACES"
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174:15 km (9 mi) N of
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706:"BEGA POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS"
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284:on the far south coast of
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759:"Australian Place Names"
639:"Pambula (state suburb)"
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518:"Pambula Post Office"
470:Group 16 Rugby League
1398:Jervis Bay Territory
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1142:Fishermans Paradise
938:"Panboola Wetlands"
231:Federal division(s)
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944:on 22 October 2013
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1277:Rosedale
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1665:Wonboyn
1655:Wog Wog
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1605:Pambula
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1595:Nullica
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1484:Monga
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