Maroubra, New South Wales
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Maroubra Sydney, New South Wales |
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Maroubra Beach
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 Maroubra
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| Coordinates | 33°56′58″S 151°14′37″E / 33.94944°S 151.24361°ECoordinates: 33°56′58″S 151°14′37″E / 33.94944°S 151.24361°E | ||||||||||||
| Population | 29,594 (2011 census) | ||||||||||||
| Established | 1910 | ||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 2035 | ||||||||||||
| Time zone | AEST (UTC+10) | ||||||||||||
| • Summer (DST) | AEDT (UTC+11) | ||||||||||||
| Location | 10 km (6 mi) south of Sydney CBD | ||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | City of Randwick | ||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Maroubra | ||||||||||||
| Federal Division(s) | Kingsford Smith | ||||||||||||
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Maroubra is a beachside suburb in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is 10 kilometres south of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Randwick. Maroubra is the largest suburb in the area governed by Randwick City Council in both area and population.Maroubra Junction is a locality in the centre of the suburb.
Maroubra is a local Aboriginal word meaning place of thunder. In 1861, the first house was built in the area by Humphrey McKeon. A number of other settlers arrived on the land in the 1870s to work on the wool scouring works located at the northern end of the bay.
The suburb first made headlines on 6 May 1898, when the Hereward, a fully rigged iron ship weighing 1,513 tons, was caught by the gale force winds and shipwrecked at the northern end of Maroubra Beach while heading north toward Newcastle. The shipwreck remained on the beach for a number of years until a failed attempt to refloat it was made by building a coffer dam around the wreck. Hereward Street in Maroubra is named after the event.
Major residential development only began in the 1910s after Herbert Dudley, a real estate developer, subdivided the land into residential blocks. Herbert Dudley also lobbied for the extension of the tramline to Maroubra Junction in 1912, where he had built Dudley's Emporium which has just recently been redeveloped. More crown land was released for residential use in the 1920s and the tram line was extended to Maroubra Beach in 1921.
Between 1925 and 1934, the Olympia Motor Speedway was located in South Maroubra at the corner of Anzac Parade and Fitzgerald Avenue. However, due to the dangerous nature of the concrete track, a number of deaths occurred and it was closed after only nine years of operation. Coral Sea Park and surrounding estates was announced on the site in 1947 and formally completed in 1961. The estates and park was given its namesake from the 1942 battle; The battle of the Coral Sea.
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