Bogangar is a town in the
Tweed Shire located in north-eastern
New South Wales, Australia, and includes Cudgen Lake, Norries Headland and the locality of
Cabarita Beach on the east. Locally, the names Bogangar and Cabarita Beach are interchangeable, with more residents choosing to use the latter. In the 2016 Census, Bogangar had a population of 3,060.
Bogangar takes its name from the
Bandjalang-Yugambeh dialect chain word `bobingah' meaning a highland.
[J Evans, Science of Man 21.3.1903]
History
The word Bogangar is of
Aboriginal
Aborigine, aborigine or aboriginal may refer to:
*Aborigines (mythology), in Roman mythology
* Indigenous peoples, general term for ethnic groups who are the earliest known inhabitants of an area
*One of several groups of indigenous peoples, see ...
origin and literally means "a place of many pippies" and tiny molluscs were once encountered along the shorelines of the Pacific.
Bogangar Public School was opened on 16 February 2004.
See also
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Cabarita Beach, New South Wales
Cabarita Beach is a town in northeastern New South Wales which occupies a thin strip of beach-side land along the Coral Sea coast, east of Tweed Coast Road, in the Tweed Shire town of Bogangar. Locally, the names Cabarita Beach and Bogangar ...
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Northern Rivers
References
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Towns in New South Wales
Suburbs of Tweed Heads, New South Wales
Coastal towns in New South Wales