Berrima Gaol 2009
Berrima may refer to: * Berrima, New South Wales, a village in the Southern Highlands district on the old Hume Highway between Canberra and Sydney, Australia. * Berrima Correctional Centre, an Australian female prison located at Berrima, New South Wales, Australia. * Berrima Parish, a parish of the County of Camden in the Southern Highlands region of New South Wales, Australia. * Berrima railway line, partly closed private railway line in New South Wales, Australia * HMAS Berrima See also * Berrimah (other) * New Berrima, New South Wales New Berrima is a village in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Austr ...

Berrima, New South Wales
Berrima () is a historic village in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia, in Wingecarribee Shire. The village, once a major town, is located on the Old Hume Highway between Sydney and Canberra. It was previously known officially as the Town of Berrima. It is close to the three major towns of the Southern Highlands: Mittagong, Bowral and Moss Vale. Etymology The name ''Berrima'' is believed to derive from an Aboriginal word meaning either "southward" or "black swan". History The area around Berrima was once occupied by the Dharawal Aborigines. The region and Wingecarribee River was first visited by Europeans during the late 1790s, including a 1798 expedition led by an ex-convict, John Wilson. However, John and Hamilton Hume rediscovered the area in 1814. The area was explored by Charles Throsby in 1818. Runs were taken up soon after, including by one by Charles Throsby. Harper's Mansion, which is on a hill overlooking the town, was built from 1829 to 1 ...
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Berrima Correctional Centre
The Berrima Correctional Centre is an Australian prison, located at Berrima, New South Wales. The Centre was operational between 1839 and 2011 with a number of breaks in between, and was re-opened in September 2016. Initially established as Berrima Gaol, the facility closed in 1909 and reopened in 1949 as the Berrima Training Centre. The Centre is the oldest Australian correctional facility in operation. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999. History The old Berrima Gaol was built in 1835-9 of local sandstone at a cost of £5,400. Convicted London joiner and carpenter James Gough (1790-1876) who arrived on the Earl Spencer in 1813 and gained his conditional pardon in 1821, was awarded the construction of Berrima Gaol in partnership with John Richards in 1834; much of the construction work was done by convicts in irons. It initially comprised 34 cells accommodating 66 prisoners. The design was adopted by the Governor, Richard Bourke, from t ...
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Berrima Parish
The Parish of Berrima is a parish of the County of Camden in the Southern Highlands region of New South Wales. Berrima is the largest town in the parish, and the parish includes the land to the north and north-east of this town. The Wingecarribee River forms part of the boundary of the parish in the south, although some of the land near Berrima that is to the south of the river is also included in the parish. Both the old and new Hume Highway pass through the parish from the south-west to the north-east. Gibraltar creek is part of the boundary in the north-east. Bowral and Mittagong are located just to the east of the parish, along with the Southern Highlands railway line The Southern Highlands Line is an Intercity rail service operated by NSW TrainLink that services the Macarthur, Southern Highlands and Southern Tablelands regions of New South Wales. First operating in 1869, the service runs from across the .... Mandemar is located in the north-west of the pari ...
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Berrima Railway Line
The Berrima railway line is a partly closed private railway line in New South Wales, Australia. It was a short branch from the Main South line to serve the Berrima Colliery. Early history The line originally began as a coal railway, built by the Berrima Coal Mining and Railway Company in 1881. That company opened a coal mine in the gorge of the Wingecarribee River, about west of Moss Vale and built a standard gauge line to a point above the gorge. It joined the Main Southern Railway at a point north of Moss Vale, then known as Austermere and later as Bong Bong. The railway crossed the Great Southern Road, later Hume Highway, on the level. At the colliery end, coal was brought up an incline from the mine which laid across the Wingecarribee River. Motive power on the railway was a locomotive hired from the NSWGR and it was driven by the company's driver. After the loss of contracts to Victorian Railways, the company went into liquidation about 1889.''The Railways of Berrim ...
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HMAS Berrima
HMAS ''Berrima'' was a passenger liner which served in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) during World War I as an armed merchantman and troop transport. Launched in 1913 as the P&O liner SS ''Berrima'', the ship initially carried immigrants from the United Kingdom to Australia via Cape Town. In August 1914, ''Berrima'' was requisitioned for military use, refitted and armed, and commissioned into the RAN as an auxiliary cruiser. The ship transported two battalions of the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force to the German New Guinea colonies in September. Paid off from naval service in October 1914, ''Berrima'' then sailed as part of the second ANZAC troop convoy; in addition to carrying soldiers to the Middle East, the ship towed the submarine . ''Berrima'' continued to work under the liner requisition scheme until 18 February 1917, when she was torpedoed. She was towed ashore and repaired, then requisitioned by the Shipping Controller as a stores and munitions ferry. ...
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Berrimah (other)
Berrimah may refer to: * Berrimah, Northern Territory, suburb * Electoral division of Berrimah * Berrimah Power Station * Berrimah Prison See also * Berrima (other) Berrima may refer to: * Berrima, New South Wales, a village in the Southern Highlands district on the old Hume Highway between Canberra and Sydney, Australia. * Berrima Correctional Centre, an Australian female prison located at Berrima, New Sout ...