Bass Hill, () a

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, is located 23 kilometres

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of the

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, in the state of

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, and is a part of the

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region.

History

Bass Hill is named after

George Bass George Bass (; 30 January 1771 – after 5 February 1803) was a British naval surgeon and explorer of Australia. Early years Bass was born on 30 January 1771 at Aswarby, a hamlet near Sleaford, Lincolnshire, the son of a tenant farmer, George ...

, a surgeon and explorer who was granted land here in 1798. He had arrived in the colony in 1795 on HMS ''Reliance'' and became friendly with midshipman

Matthew Flinders Captain Matthew Flinders (16 March 1774 – 19 July 1814) was a British navigator and cartographer who led the first inshore circumnavigation of mainland Australia, then called New Holland. He is also credited as being the first person to u ...

and on arrival they decided to explore parts of the colony. In 1796 on a small boat called the ''Tom Thumb'' accompanied by a boy servant William Martin, they sailed into

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and explored the

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, twenty miles (32 km) beyond previous expeditions. They sailed as far as present day

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. For their exploration efforts Bass and Flinders were rewarded with land grants in this area by Governor Hunter. The area developed rapidly after the completion of

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in 1814. Originally known as Irish Town because of the Irish settlements, it later became known as Upper Bankstown. It became officially known as Bass Hill in October 1924. During

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, Bass Hill was the location for a small

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station that was owned and operated by the

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. It was located on the corner of Manuka Crescent & Johnston Road. This facility worked in conjunction with the

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on Black Charlies Hill in Condell Park, which also worked in conjunction with a remote receiving station that was located in Picnic Point.Bankstown Remote Receiving Building, Bankstown, New South Wales, during WW2
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Commercial area

Bass Hill Plaza is a , district size shopping centre at 753 Hume Highway. The shopping centre includes a Woolworths Supermarket, Kmart, Aldi, Medical Centre, Post Office and approximately 60 specialty stores. Adjacent to the centre a new residential housing estate, Viewpoint, is being developed on the former Bass Hill drive-in cinema.

Education

Bass Hill has three schools,

Bass Hill Public School Bass Hill, () a suburb of local government area City of Canterbury-Bankstown, is located 23 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the state of New South Wales, Australia, and is a part of the South-western Sydney ...

for years K-6, George Bass School for students with special needs and

Bass High School , motto_translation = , established = , type = Public coeducational high school , founder = , principal = Martin Toaetolu Bass Hill is home to many sporting fields and facilities which cater for sports such as

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, and

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. The Crest sporting complex contains the Dunc Gray Velodrome, which was home of the

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events for the

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and the Cycling World Cup, a state of the art athletics complex, soccer fields, hockey fields, and cricket fields. The Crest was home to the Sydney Bulls

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Rugby League Club, South West Strikers Soccer Club, Bankstown District Sports Club Hockey Club, Banksports Athletics, Bankstown Sports Cycling Club, and Bankstown Sports Gymnastics.

Population

In the 2016 census the population of Bass Hill was 9,069, 50.7% female and 49.3% male. The median age of the Bass Hill population was 34 years, 4 years below the national median of 38. 58.5% of people were born in Australia. The next most common countries of birth were Lebanon 8.2%, Vietnam 7.2%, Italy 1.4%, Iraq 1.3% and China 1.2%. 37.6% of people only spoke English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Arabic 27.6%, Vietnamese 9.6%, Greek 2.6%, Italian 2.1% and Cantonese 1.8%. The most common responses for religion in Bass Hill were Islam 27.7%, Catholic 26.0% and No Religion 9.2%.

References

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* {{City of Canterbury-Bankstown topics, state=collapsed Suburbs of Sydney City of Canterbury-Bankstown