Tomago is a combined industrial/semi-rural suburb of the Port Stephens Local Government Area in the Hunter Region of New South Wales

New South Wales

New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

, Australia

Australia

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. It is located just north of the Hunter River and west of the body of water known as Fullerton Cove. Tomago means "sweet water" in the local Aboriginal

Australian Aborigines

Australian Aborigines , also called Aboriginal Australians, from the latin ab originem , are people who are indigenous to most of the Australian continentthat is, to mainland Australia and the island of Tasmania...

 language.

Geography

Tomago is primarily flat with sandy soil and is surrounded on three sides by water. The Hunter River flows around the western and southern borders of the suburb. To the east is Fullerton Cove. There is no direct access to the land portion of the neighbouring suburbs of Tarro

Tarro, New South Wales

Tarro is a north-western suburb of the Newcastle City Council Local Government Area in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia. It, and parts of nearby Beresfield, was originally known as Upper Hexham, 'lower' Hexham being an older settlement located about to the east on the Hunter River...

, Kooragang or Fullerton Cove

Fullerton Cove, New South Wales

Fullerton Cove is a rural suburb of the Port Stephens Local Government Area in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia, located just north of Fern Bay and adjacent to Fullerton Cove, from which the suburb gets its name....

. Access to and from Hexham is only possible via the Hexham bridges, which are actually located in the suburb of Tarro.

Industry

Major industrial sites in the area are the Tomago aluminium smelter

Tomago aluminium smelter

The Tomago aluminium smelter is located at Tomago, New South Wales, Australia, approximately 13 km West of Newcastle. It is a major industrial site in the Port Stephens LGA. The smelter has a production capacity of 520,000 tonnes of aluminium per year...

, FORGACS Shipyard Tomago, Valley Longwall International and the Tomago Sandbeds water treatment works.