Wangi Wangi is a suburb of the City of Lake Macquarie in 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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, which forms a peninsula jutting eastwards into Lake Macquarie

Lake Macquarie (New South Wales)

Lake Macquarie is Australia's largest coastal salt water lake, covering an area of in the Hunter Region of New South Wales with most of the City of Lake Macquarie's residents living near its shores. It is connected to the Tasman Sea by a short channel. Lake Macquarie is twice as large as Sydney...

. It is well known as the former home of artist William Dobell

William Dobell

Sir William Dobell, OBE was an Australian artist .The electoral Division of Dobell is named after him.- Life :...

. The suburb is also home to the Wangi Power Station, which operated from 1956 to 1986.

Wangi Wangi has an

• RSL,
• Bowling club,
• Workers Club,
• Caravan Park,
• Chemist
  Chemist
  A chemist is a scientist trained in the study of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties such as density and acidity. Chemists carefully describe the properties they study in terms of quantities, with detail on the level of molecules and their component atoms...
  
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• Parks,
• Church,
• Butcher
  Butcher
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• IGA
  IGA (Australian supermarket group)
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   Supermarket/Liquor store,
• Scout
  Scouting
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   group
• Primary School,
• Hardware store,
• Peter Pan Pre-school,
• Netball
  Netball
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   Courts,
• Athletics club,
• Sporting field,
• Newsagent
  Newsagent
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• Real Estate Agents,
• Post Office
  Post office
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• Petrol station/mechanical workshop,
• Hairdressers, and
• Takeaway Hot food.

Wangi Wangi has also had its own Rugby League

Rugby league

Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...

 team over the years being the Wangi Warriors.
There is also a number of bushwalking tracks around the bushland. Some of which are host to gun emplacements, during the course of World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

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External links

• Travel guide to Wangi Wangi Sydney Morning Herald
• Wangi Wangi RSL http://www.wangirsl.com.au/ - Great display of War memorabilia.
• Wangi wangi Workers http://www.wangiworkers.com.au/
• Wangi Wangi Pub http://www.wangihotel.com.au/ - Also offers Accommodation.
• Gun Emplacement Bunker Picture http://www.flickr.com/photos/eyeweed/2323925032/