Lemon Tree Passage is a suburb of the Port Stephens Local Government Area in the Hunter Region of New South Wales

New South Wales

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, Australia

Australia

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, located at the end of the Tilligerry Peninsula and surrounded by the waters of Port Stephens

Port Stephens

Port Stephens is a large natural harbour located about north-east of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia. It lies wholly within the Port Stephens Local Government Area although its northern shoreline forms the boundary between the Port Stephens and Great Lakes LGAs...

. It is a haven for koala

Koala

The koala is an arboreal herbivorous marsupial native to Australia, and the only extant representative of the family Phascolarctidae....

s due to it being densely wooded. The town has a small marina

Marina

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 and the local industry is oyster farming

Oyster farming

Oyster farming is an aquaculture practice in which oysters are raised for human consumption. Oyster farming most likely developed in tandem with pearl farming, a similar practice in which oysters are farmed for the purpose of developing pearls...

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The suburb is separated from nearby Bulls Island by a small strait

Strait

A strait or straits is a narrow, typically navigable channel of water that connects two larger, navigable bodies of water. It most commonly refers to a channel of water that lies between two land masses, but it may also refer to a navigable channel through a body of water that is otherwise not...

which is also known as Lemon Tree Passage.