Wallaroo is a rural locality in

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close to the

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. It lies north of the Australian Capital Territory border, north west of

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, west of the

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, and east of the

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. It is approximately 19 kilometres north-west of the Australian city of

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. At the , it had a population of 576. The cadastral unit in the area is known as Wallaroo Parish. Between 1981–1990, the

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constructed the St. Sava

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at Wallaroo. Established as the headquarters of the

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, the church is modeled on the

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, built in the 15th century.

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