Belanglo is a locality around the

Belanglo State Forest Belanglo State Forest is a planted forest, of mainly pine but some native forestry around the edges, open to the public, in the Australian state of New South Wales; its total area is about 3,800 hectares. The Belanglo State Forest is located ...

in the Southern Highlands of

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, in

Wingecarribee Shire Wingecarribee Shire is the Local government in Australia, local government area of the Southern Highlands (New South Wales), Southern Highlands in the state of New South Wales, Australia. The Wingecarribee Shire is around southwest of Sydney a ...

History

The infamous

Backpacker murders The backpacker murders were a spate of serial killings that took place in New South Wales, Australia, between 1989 and 1993, committed by Ivan Milat. The bodies of seven missing young people aged 19 to 22 were discovered partially buried in t ...

occurred in the Belanglo State Forest in between the years of 1989–1993. The 7 victims were brutally murdered by the criminal

Ivan Milat Ivan Robert Marko Milat (27 December 1944 – 27 October 2019), commonly referred to in media as the Backpacker Murderer, was an Australian serial killer who abducted, assaulted, robbed and murdered two men and five women in New South Wales bet ...

, who was serving 7 life sentences in

Goulburn Correctional Centre The Goulburn Correctional Centre, (also known as the Circle), is an Australian Supermax prison, supermaximum security prison for males. It is located in Goulburn, New South Wales, three kilometres north-east of the central business district. The f ...

with a non-parole period up until his death from cancer in 2019. Ivan continued to claim his innocence against the killings of these several backpackers. Milat's great nephew, Matthew Milat was sentenced to 43 years in prison for murdering

Bargo Bargo is a town in the Macarthur Region of Greater Sydney in New South Wales, Australia, in the Wollondilly Shire. It is located approximately halfway between Campbelltown and Bowral, about 100 km south west of the Sydney CBD. It is sit ...

teenager David Auchterlonie in the Belanglo State Forest in 2010. Another person, Karlie Pearce-Stevenson was murdered and then dumped in the forest; her body was only found in 2010 and the body of her daughter was found next to a highway in 2015.

Population

At the 2021 census, 22 people were recorded living at Belanglo. According to the , there were 27 people living at Belanglo.

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