Kangaroo Valley
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Kangaroo Valley New South Wales |
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Main street of Kangaroo Valley, 2006
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 Kangaroo Valley
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| Coordinates | 34°44′S 150°32′E / 34.733°S 150.533°ECoordinates: 34°44′S 150°32′E / 34.733°S 150.533°E |
| Population | 844 (2011 census) |
| • Density | 3.297/km2 (8.539/sq mi) |
| Established | 1817 |
| Area | 256 km2 (98.8 sq mi) |
| Time zone | AEST (UTC+10) |
| • Summer (DST) | AEDT (UTC+11) |
| Location | 160 km (99 mi) S of Sydney |
| LGA(s) | City of Shoalhaven |
| Region | Southern Highlands |
| State electorate(s) | Kiama |
| Federal Division(s) | Gilmore |
Kangaroo Valley is a river valley along the Kangaroo River in the Shoalhaven region of New South Wales, Australia, located west of the seaside in the City of Shoalhaven. It is also the name of the small township within it, formerly known as Osborne, with a population of 844 in the 2011 census. The township is accessed by the Moss Vale Road, which links Moss Vale to the Princes Highway at Bomaderry a little north of Nowra.
As of 2013[update], the small town has a variety of arts and craft shops, restaurants and cafes, a hotel, club, post office, supermarket and other businesses, including an ambulance station, general practitioner and pharmacy.
Kangaroo Valley has a bus service to Nowra and Moss Vale. Priors Scenic Express also provides a long-distance coach service to Bowral, Mittagong, and Sydney as well as to the Shoalhaven and South Coast, as far as Narooma.
Events held in the town include the Kangaroo Valley Agricultural and Horticultural Show, Kangaroo Valley Folk Festival, and Kangaroo Valley Village Markets.
The first inhabitants of Kangaroo Valley were the Australian Aboriginal Wodi-Wodi people, who had reportedly occupied the land for around 20,000 years before the European settlement of Australia in 1788. An 1826 census indicated 79 Aborigines lived in the valley in five separate encampments. The first recorded European sighting of the valley was in April 1812, when surveyor-explorer George Evans passed through the area as he travelled north from his exploration of Jervis Bay. Evans reportedly claimed that the valley offered a view that "no painter could beautify."
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