Sussex Inlet is a town in the South Coast region of

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. The town lies on the west bank of the waterway called Sussex Inlet, which divides New South Wales from the

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. The town lies within the

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. As at the , the population of the Sussex Inlet-Berrara area was 4,694.

Geography

The town of Sussex Inlet is located on the west bank of Sussex Inlet, a narrow

inlet An inlet is a typically long and narrow indentation of a shoreline such as a small arm, cove, bay, sound, fjord, lagoon or marsh, that leads to an enclosed larger body of water such as a lake, estuary, gulf or marginal sea. Overview In ...

connecting Wreck Bay to the waterbody of St Georges Basin. The east bank of Sussex Inlet is the

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. Sussex Inlet is located roughly 150 km south of Sydney (203 km by road). Jervis Bay Airport is located about east of Sussex Inlet.

References

External links

SussexInlet.com

Sussex Inlet Info. WebsiteVISITNSW.com – Sussex-Inlet
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