Description
Menai is a suburb in southern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia 29 kilometres south of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the Sutherland Shire.
Menai is a suburb in southern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia 29 kilometres south of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the Sutherland Shire.
History
Menai is named after Menai Bridge, a town on the Menai Strait in Wales.
The area now known as Menai was originally called Bangor in 1895 by the land's owner, a farmer named Owen Jones, after his birthplace Bangor in Wales. To avoid confusion with Bangor in Tasmania, the Postmaster General's Office changed the suburb name to Menai in 1910. Menai Bridge in Wales lies opposite Bangor on the Menai Strait. When Menai expanded, the eastern section became Bangor again.The suburb has been affected by bushfires on several occasions, including the 1994 Eastern seaboard fires and 2017–18 Australian bushfire season.
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Population: 10001-100000
Time zone: UTC +11:00
Area: 12.944 km2
Elevation: 51-200 metres
Town elevation: 114 m
Population number: 10,304
Local Government Area: Sutherland Shire Council
Attribution
This article contains content imported from the English Wikipedia article on Menai, New South Wales
