Tralee is a suburb in the Queanbeyan–Palerang Regional Council local government area, abutting the border with the

Australian Capital Territory The Australian Capital Territory (ACT), known as the Federal Capital Territory until 1938, is an internal States and territories of Australia, territory of Australia. Canberra, the capital city of Australia, is situated within the territory, an ...

and south west of the city of

Queanbeyan Queanbeyan ( ) is a city in south-eastern New South Wales, Australia, located adjacent to the Australian Capital Territory in the Southern Tablelands region. Located on the Queanbeyan River, the city is the council seat of the Queanbeyan-Pale ...

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. It is immediately south of Environa, the site of a city planned during the 1920s that was later sold off as undeveloped land. The suburb is named after

Tralee Tralee ( ; , ; formerly , meaning 'strand of the River Lee') is the county town of County Kerry in the south-west of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. The town is on the northern side of the neck of the Dingle Peninsula, and is the largest town in ...

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. The residential site, which falls under the flight path of

Canberra Airport Canberra Airport is an international airport situated in the district of Majura, Australian Capital Territory. It serves Australia's capital city, Canberra, as well as the nearby city of Queanbeyan and regional areas of the Australian Capital ...

was strongly opposed by airport authorities. However, despite the concerns, the New South Wales State Planning Minister

Kristina Keneally Kristina Marie Kerscher Keneally (born 19 December 1968) is an American-born Australian politician who served as the first female Premier of New South Wales from 2009 to 2011 and was later a Labor Senator for New South Wales from February 2018 u ...

initially approved Queanbeyan City Council's plan for the development of 5000 residential blocks in 2008. In November 2012 the

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announced that it had approved the rezoning of the land. Protests have continued by the airport, federal Labor politicians and the ACT Government.

Geography

Tralee lies on the lower slopes of the Pemberton Hill to the south. It is

above sea level Height above mean sea level is a measure of a location's vertical distance (height, elevation or altitude) in reference to a vertical datum based on a historic mean sea level. In geodesy, it is formalized as orthometric height. The zero level ...

. The rocks are acid volcanics,

rhyodacite Rhyodacite is a volcanic rock intermediate in composition between dacite and rhyolite. It is the extrusive equivalent of those plutonic rocks that are intermediate in composition between monzogranite and granodiorite. Rhyodacites form from rapid ...

and

rhyolite Rhyolite ( ) is the most silica-rich of volcanic rocks. It is generally glassy or fine-grained (aphanitic) in texture (geology), texture, but may be porphyritic, containing larger mineral crystals (phenocrysts) in an otherwise fine-grained matri ...

from the Deakin Volcanics. These rocks solidified 414±9 Mya.

Tralee Speedway

Between 1970 and 1997, Tralee Speedway was a motorsports venue that hosted a number of Australian Championships. The Speedway sat idle for many years until it was demolished to make way for a regional sports complex, opened when residential development began in the South Jerrabomberra district, including Tralee and surrounds.

References

{{authority control Towns in New South Wales Suburbs of Queanbeyan