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Eastlakes

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Bayside Council NSW, PO Box 21, Eastlakes, NSW 2018
1300 581 229

Description

Eastlakes is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

Eastlakes is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Eastlakes is located 8 kilometres south of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the Bayside Council, Eastlakes is mostly residential with a shopping centre located at Evans Avenue. There is a new shopping centre being built across the road from the current shopping centre, when the new one is complete the current one will be redeveloped. Golf courses also take up part of the suburb.

History

Eastlakes takes its name from the extensive lake system on its southeast and its location in the Eastern Suburbs. The area was once known as Botany Swamps. This was Sydney's third source of water when water was pumped from here to a reservoir in Paddington from 1859.The lakes were partly reclaimed from the swamp to create the Lakes Golf Course and Sydney Airport extensions. Part of the suburb is on the former site of the Rosebery Racecourse, which was redeveloped in the 1960s into a residential and commercial area. Part of the racecourse area is now the site of a park with a memorial to local soldiers and lighthorses who trained on that site during both world wars.

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Type: Suburbs

Population: 1001-10000

Time zone: UTC +11:00

Area: 2.003 km2

Elevation: 11-50 metres

Town elevation: 22 m

Population number: 6,912

Local Government Area: Bayside Council

Location

Bayside Council NSW, PO Box 21, Eastlakes, NSW 2018

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This article contains content imported from the English Wikipedia article on Eastlakes, New South Wales

Eastlakes - Localista

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