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Maroubra Sydney, New Due south Wales
Maroubra Beach
Population	xxx,688 (2016 demography)[1]
Established	1910[2]
Postcode(southward)	2035
Top	5 m (sixteen ft)
Time zone	AEST (UTC+x)
• Summertime (DST)	AEDT (UTC+xi)
Location	10 km (6 mi) south-east of Sydney CBD
LGA(s)	Metropolis of Randwick
State electorate(south)	Maroubra
Federal segmentation(s)	Kingsford Smith
Suburbs effectually Maroubra: Kingsford Randwick South Coogee Pagewood Maroubra Coogee Hillsdale Matraville Malabar

Maroubra is a beachside suburb in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is 10 kilometres south-east of the Sydney fundamental business district in the local government expanse of the Metropolis of Randwick.

Maroubra is the largest suburb within Randwick City Council by both area and population;.^[2] Maroubra Junction is a locality in the centre of the suburb.

History [edit]

1800s [edit]

Maroubra is a local Ancient word meaning identify of thunder. In 1861, the beginning firm was built in the area by Humphrey McKeon.^[three] A number of other settlers arrived on the country in the 1870s to work on the wool scouring works located at the northern end of the bay.^[four]

The Hereward [edit]

Maroubra Beach, Kerry and Co., c.1900

The Hereward wrecked on Maroubra Beach, May 1898

The suburb first made headlines on 6 May 1898, when the Hereward, a fully rigged iron ship weighing ane,513 tons was caught by the gale-strength winds and shipwrecked at the northern finish of Maroubra Beach while heading north toward Newcastle.^{[5] [6] [7]} The shipwreck remained on the beach for a number of years until a failed try to refloat information technology was fabricated by building a coffer dam effectually the wreck.

The wreck was slowly washed out to sea later on; and by 1937 but a triangle dorsal fin was visible higher up sea level.^[8] In 1950, Randwick Council feared the danger that the remains posed, especially to surfers and swimmers, and had the remains blasted; such that past 1967 it appeared that at that place was nothing left of the ship.^[ix]

In recent times, on diverse occasions, due to big swells and sweeping currents, large amounts of sand had moved off the sea floor and had exposed extensive portions of the Hereward which were once idea to be destroyed and lost forever. In March 2013 after large seas, extensive portions of the send'due south metal hull, along with mast and engine pieces were exposed to a greater extent than they always had been before.^{[10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15]}

Hereward Street in Maroubra is named after the consequence.

1900s [edit]

Maroubra subdivision plan, 12 January 1918, Z/SP/M8

Major residential evolution only began in the 1910s after Herbert Dudley, a real estate developer, subdivided the land into residential blocks. Herbert Dudley as well lobbied for the extension of the tramline to Maroubra Junction in 1912, where he had congenital Dudley's Emporium which has merely recently been redeveloped. In 1918 sixty-five allotments on Crown Lands bordered by Maroubra Bay Road, Cooper Street and Broad Road were auctioned by Stanton and Son Express.^[16] The tram line was extended to Maroubra Beach in 1921.

Between 1925 and 1934, the Olympia Motor Speedway was located in South Maroubra at the corner of Anzac Parade and Fitzgerald Avenue. However, due to the dangerous nature of the concrete track, a number of deaths occurred and it was airtight later on only nine years of operation. Coral Sea Park and surrounding estates was announced on the site in 1947 and formally completed in 1961. The estates and park was given its namesake from the 1942 boxing; The battle of the Coral Body of water.^{[17] [18]}

2000s [edit]

In 2005, Maroubra was named as i of the suburbs involved in the Cronulla Riots, after more than 100 cars were vandalised in relation to the riots between Centre Eastern and Anglo youth.^[19] In 2006, Maroubra Beach became the second Australian beach to be named a National Surfing Reserve (the get-go beach being Bells Beach in Victoria).^[20] It is also a popular place for people learning to surf^[21] due to its beginner friendly conditions.

2010s [edit]

Maroubra Junction and surrounding areas [edit]

Maroubra Junction is one of the chief shopping areas in the district and is habitation to Pacific Square shopping heart (built on the area once known every bit Stockland Mall, Maroubra). Pacific Foursquare shopping center has an outdoor eating area on Anzac Parade, Coles and Aldi supermarkets, Glamabags, many specialty shops as well as beingness domicile to the area's Australia Postal service outlet.^[22] Commercial developments are also institute along Anzac Parade, Maroubra Route and surrounding streets, including Dudley's Emporium which was the first shopping centre in Maroubra Junction built in 1912 and has been recently redeveloped.

Maroubra Beach and surrounds [edit]

There are also a handful of shopping districts besides Maroubra Junction including the areas surrounding Maroubra Beach. McKeon Street and Marine Parade are home to multiple cafes and restaurants, and other retail facilities such every bit surf shops, yoga schools, a chemist and newsagent, the Maroubra Seals Club and The Bay Hotel.

S Maroubra [edit]

South Maroubra Shopping Hamlet, known as "The Village", is located in South Maroubra and is abode to many well-known shops including a late nighttime chemist's, Walsh's Pharmacy as well equally Maroubra'south simply Woolworths supermarket.It is likewise next door to the Sands Hotel. The Village and Due south Maroubra Village Green are domicile to Christmas Carols every year.^{[23] [24] [25] [26]}

Hotels [edit]

Current [edit]

• Glasshouse (Since 1947) – The licence of the Golden Grove Hotel was transferred from Darlington to new premises on the corner of Anzac Parade and Boyce Road, Maroubra Junction in February 1947. The hotel has more recently changed its proper noun to the Glasshouse Hotel.^[27]
• The Sands Hotel (Since 1972) – A hotel in Southward Maroubra alongside Southward Maroubra Shopping Village. At present rebranded to

Southend Hotel though many locals notwithstanding call it the Sands.

• Maroubra Junction Hotel (Since 1926) — A hotel in Maroubra Junction across Maroubra Route from Pacific Square.^[28]
• Ocean View Tavern (Since 2010) – In an attempt to popularise the generally vacant expanse environs Maroubra Beach, the Maroubra Bay Hotel premises was revitalised and re-opened under the name of the Ocean View Tavern.^[29] Since recalled the Bay Hotel circa 2017.
• Juniors @ The Junction (Since 2009) – The event of a merger with South Sydney Junior Rugby League Society (Kingsford) and the struggling Maroubra Returned and Services League (RSL) Club. The gild is on the site of the former Maroubra RSL society on Anzac Parade and Haig Street.^[30]

Sometime [edit]

• Maroubra Bay Hotel (1926–2010) – Popular afterwards World War I due to the extension of the tram line to the embankment, the construction of a promenade and bathing sheds. Due to a downturn in trade the hotel closed in early 2010.^{[31] [32]} Reopened every bit the Bay Hotel, nearby is the Maroubra Seals surf social club (pub, gaming and eating place).
• Trade Winds (1984–2002) – Maroubra Junction on Maroubra Road. 2002 saw the onetime Flag Inns hotel converted into apartments. The Trade Winds Brasserie is all that'south left of the old hotel.
• Maroubra RSL (2000^[33]–2009) – The struggling Maroubra Returned and Services League (RSL) Gild merged with South Sydney Junior Leagues Club in order to proceed the premise open due to poor income. Information technology was reopened nether the name "Juniors @ The Junction".^[thirty]

Transport [edit]

Roads [edit]

The CBD is located x kilometres north-west from Maroubra via Anzac Parade, via Kensington, Kingsford and Moore Park.

Buses [edit]

Regular jitney services through Maroubra are operated by Transdev John The netherlands.^[34]

Light Rail [edit]

The CBD and S East Calorie-free Rail which became fully operational in Apr 2020, connects the Sydney CBD to Randwick and Kingsford.

Trams [edit]

The sometime Maroubra tram line opened from Anzac Parade to Maroubra Bay in 1921. The line branched off the master line to La Perouse at the intersection of Anzac Parade and Maroubra Road, travelling eastward along Maroubra Road, Cooper Street, French Street and Mons Artery before terminating in a balloon loop in Marine Parade at Maroubra Bay Embankment. The line was double rail throughout, and passed through several tram reservations on its descent down to the beach. Straight services operated from Circular Quay and Railway Square. The line closed in 1961. The current road of bus 397 now covers this route.

Heritage listings [edit]

Due to the historic period of the suburb there are 34 sites formally recognized by the NSW Office of Environs and Heritage as providing a "sense of continuity and belonging to the place where nosotros live".^[35] None of these sites, even so, have been protected under Department 136 of the NSW Heritage Deed.^[36]

Media [edit]

Maroubra is within the reporting and circulation boundaries of the South-Eastern Suburbs newspaper; "Southern Courier" which is owned and distributed by News Express.

Maroubra is also within the reporting and circulation boundaries of The Animal, a monthly magazine for the beaches and bays of Sydney's east. Information technology covers local news, sport and the arts and each month. It features a unlike local celebrity on the cover.

Maroubra was habitation to the set of the idiot box series Heartbreak High which was filmed at Maroubra Bay High School later on its closure.

The German language electronic musician Edgar Froese included a track chosen Maroubra Bay on his 1975 album Epsilon in Malaysian Pale, which was influenced by a visit to Maroubra during Tangerine Dream'south 1975 Australian tour.

In 1963 "Piffling Pattie" reached No. 2 on the Australian Top40 with her hit EP singles "Stomping at Maroubra" and "He'southward My Blonde-Headed, Stompie Wompie, Real Gone Surfer Boy"

In 1983, the music video and cover artwork for Come Said the Boy by Mondo Rock were filmed in Maroubra.^[37]

Sport and recreation [edit]

A number of well-known sporting teams represent the local area. 1 of them is the well known NRL club named the Southward Sydney Rabbitohs, Sydney Roosters, and Maroubra Lions some other teams are Maroubra Surf Life Saving Club, Southward Maroubra Surf Life Saving Club, Maroubra Bodyboard Club and Maroubra Surf Riders Club.

The Southward Maroubra Dolphins Winter Pond Social club and Maroubra Seals Winter Pond Club swim at Wylie's Baths and compete against Bondi Icebergs Wintertime Swimming Club, Cottesloe Venereal, Cronulla Polar Bears Winter Swimming Club, Coolangatta Surf Life Saving Club, Clovelly Eskimos Winter Swimming Club, Bronte Splashers, Wollongong Whales and Coogee Penguins Wintertime Swimming Society in the Winter Swimming Association of Australia Championships^[38]

Maroubra Beach is listed as a national surfing reserve, as a result, it has played host to many surfing competitions. The most notable of which was the 2004 Snickers Australian Open up where then-6 time world champion Kelly Slater won. The outcome was covered in the Bra Boys picture, Bra Boys: Claret is Thicker than Water.

Other events [edit]

Due to the large size of Maroubra beach, it has also been used for sports other than surfing. One of the more highly covered events was the 2007 Beach Cricket serial which saw Maroubra Embankment play domicile to Round Three of the series between Australia, England and West Indies. The round saw Australia and England progress to the finals which were played the post-obit day, again at Maroubra.

Religion [edit]

Wild Street Anglican Church building, Maroubra

Christian

• Holy Family Cosmic Church – originally St Aidan's Cosmic Church
• St. Mary & St. Joseph Catholic Church building
• Our Lady of the Annunciation Catholic Church
• St Johns Anglican Church
• St Edmund's Anglican Church (also known as Wild Street Church)
• Maroubra Baptist Church building
• Salvation Ground forces Maroubra
• Maroubra Presbyterian Church
• Maroubra Junction Uniting Church
• Maroubra Bay Uniting Church building
• C3 Church Maroubra
• Maroubra Surfers Church

Other

• AuGuang Maitreya
• Kingsford Maroubra Hebrew Orthodox Congregation^[39]

Healthcare [edit]

Maroubra is located shut to the Prince of Wales Hospital in Randwick. As a result, there are several clinics and out-patient services run by Prince of Wales Hospital located in Maroubra, such as the Maroubra Centre that provides support to people living with mental illness. Maroubra is as well home to a NSW Ambulance station; located on Mons Avenue near Maroubra Beach.

Schools [edit]

Electric current [edit]

• St Spyridon College
• Lycée Condorcet (The International French School of Sydney)
• Maroubra Bay Public School
• Maroubra Junction Public Schoolhouse
• Mount Sinai College
• Due south Sydney High School
• St Aidan'due south Chief School
• St Mary St Joseph Principal School
• Champagnat Catholic College Pagewood
• Our Lady of the Annuciation Principal Schoolhouse

Closed [edit]

• Maroubra High School (1962–2002): premises now in utilize by Lycée Condorcet
• Maroubra Bay Loftier School: premises no longer existent – residential estate in place of sometime grounds. Famous for being the schoolhouse used for the TV Series Heartbreak High.
• Brigidine Higher Maroubra: moved to Randwick and became Brigidine College Randwick. The grounds take since been redeveloped into St Brigid's Dark-green, a retirement village.

Maroubra Beach and parklands [edit]

Maroubra Beach stretches for approximately 1 km on Maroubra Bay. Mahon Puddle is located north of the embankment, virtually Mistral Point. Maroubra Beach and Maroubra Pool are temporary airtight because of the COVID-19 pandemic.^[twoscore] There are 2 surf clubs at Maroubra: Maroubra Surf Life Saving Club and Southward Maroubra Surf Life Saving Club. Arthur Byrne Reserve sits behind both these clubs. A skating park is located at the southern end of Maroubra Beach.

The word "Maroubra" originates from an Ancient word meaning "like thunder",^[41] which refers to the surf weather and the sounds of the waves. The length of Maroubra Embankment and proficient surf conditions provide additional photographic opportunities for the local photographers. There are numerous photography guides for Maroubra Beach and Mahon Puddle and professional photographers showcase photos from this place every bit a function of their portfolio.^{[42] [43]}

Maroubra has some big parklands, the near popular existence the reserve along the waterfront at Maroubra Beach, chosen Arthur Byrne Reserve. The reserve has an enclosed children'due south playground to the north of the blue Pavilion building at Due north Maroubra, close to the automobile park. There are charcoal-broil facilities and tables for picnickers. There are public ablution facilities inside the blueish Pavilion building. Arthur Byrne Reserved is the home to the Oktoberfest/Fun Run every year.^[44]

Heffron Park, on Fitzgerald Avenue and betwixt Bunnerong Road and Robey Street is a particularly large park. Information technology accommodates the Des Renford Aquatic Middle with indoor and outdoor pools, lawn tennis courts, sports fields, parklands, and a two kilometre cycle rails which is used for time trials and is accessible for public employ at other times.

Nagle Park, on Wild Street betwixt Walsh Avenue and Holden Street, is a flat parkland equipped for use as a sports facility. It is also a popular domestic dog park, with dogs permitted off-lead.

Snape Park, on Snape Street between Hannan and Percival Streets is equipped with pop tennis facilities and sports fields and is frequently used for organised sporting events.

Cardinal Park, at the corner of Cooper and Storey Streets, has a flat parkland with an excellent cycle track for young children built of smooth concrete. This park as well has playground equipment.

Coral Body of water Park, south of Yorktown Parade, has a flat area that provides several sports fields. It has playground equipment at its due south end.

Demographics [edit]

Historical population

Yr	Pop.	±%
2001	25,350	—
2006	26,538	+4.7%
2011	29,594	+11.v%
2016	thirty,688	+3.vii%

2016 Census [edit]

In the 2016 Census, in that location were 30,688 people in Maroubra.^[1]

• 43.2% were married and 10.0% were either divorced or separated.
• 51.0% were born in Australia.
• The next most common countries of birth were China 6.6%, England iii.3%, Indonesia ii.7%, New Zealand i.vii% and Hong Kong 1.7%.
• The most common ancestries in Maroubra were English 16.4%, Australian 14.five%, Chinese 12.7%, Irish gaelic 8.3% and Greek five.4%.
• 27.4% had both parents born in Australia, 11.three% had one parent born overseas, and 54.7% had both parents born overseas.
• 55.5% spoke only English at home.
• Other languages spoken at dwelling house included Mandarin vi.9%, Greek five.0%, Cantonese four.v%, Indonesian 2.eight% and Spanish ane.nine%.
• The nearly mutual responses for religion were No Religion 28.8% and Catholic 27.6%.

Notable residents [edit]

• Koby Abberton, surfer with Bra Boys
• Bob Carr, 39th Premier of New South Wales
• Allan Caswell, songwriter and performer
• Alex Cullen, Idiot box announcer and presenter
• Michael Daley, Current Fellow member of the Maroubra State Electorate
• Tilly Devine, Sydney offense identity
• Manu Feildel, Australian Television Show My Kitchen Rules judge
• John Flaus, Australian moving-picture show academic and theorist, actor, agitator, and raconteur
• Karl Kruszelnicki, TV and radio science presenter and journalist
• Reni Maitua, NRL former player for Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, Parramatta Eels, and Cronulla Sharks
• Mark Mathews, Professional Big Moving ridge Surfer
• John Norton, Newspaper editor
• Guy Sebastian, Australian pop, R&B, and soul singer-songwriter' winner of the first season of Australian Idol in 2003.^[45]
• Yvonne Strahovski, Actress on Chuck
• John Sutton, NRL player for the South Sydney Rabbitohs
• David Warner, Australian cricketer
• Mike Whitney, Tv personality (Sydney Weekender, Who Dares Wins), and onetime cricket actor for the NSW Dejection and Australia

See likewise [edit]

• Magic Betoken
• Maroubra Speedway

Footnotes [edit]

1. ^ ^{a b} Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Maroubra (State Suburb)". 2016 Census QuickStats . Retrieved 21 December 2017.
2. ^ ^{a b} Randwick Council: History Archived 20 June 2014 at the Wayback Automobile
3. ^ Deaths: McKeon, The Sydney Morning Herald, (Saturday, 29 July 1882), p.1.
4. ^ The Book of Sydney Suburbs, Compiled by Frances Pollon, Angus & Robertson Publishers, 1990, Published in Australia ISBN 0-207-14495-viii, page 164.
5. ^ Wreck of the Hereward: Aground at Maroubra Bay: A Wild Night at Sea, The Daily Telegraph, (Saturday, 7 May 1898), p.nine; The Mate's Story: Rockets Fired Without Avail: How the Crew Landed, The Daily Telegraph, (Saturday, seven May 1898), p.9.
6. ^ The Hereward Wreck: Sunday at Maroubra Embankment: Thousands of Spectators, The (Sydney) Evening News, (Tuesday, 10 May 1898), p.3; Last Calendar week's Disastrous Gale, The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser, (Saturday, fourteen May 1898), pp.1018, 1019, 1040.
7. ^ Maroubra Bay—Prospects of Floating Off The Hereward, The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser, (Saturday, 21 May 1896), p.1072.
8. ^ Rutherford, R.L., "Hereward—Unpopular Wreck. The Sydney Morning Herald, (Saturday, xiii December 1947), p.12.
9. ^ The Hereward is gone at last, The World's News, (Sabbatum, five December 1953), p.20.
10. ^ Maritime Heritage Sites: Hereward, Office of Environment & Heritage, New South Wales.
11. ^ Hereward Cannon, Newsletter of the Australasian Society for Historical Archeology, Vol.43, No.ii, (June 2013), pp.16-18.
12. ^ Maroubra Shipwreck Cannon Recovered, Office of Environs & Heritage, New South Wales, 27 March 2013.
13. ^ Hereward Cannon, Seals Sayings, Maroubra Seals Sports & Community Club, No.2330, Thursday, 26 February 2015.
14. ^ Hereward Cannon: Handover Anniversary, Maroubra Seals Sports & Customs Social club, 7 December 2017.
15. ^ Hereward shipwreck cannon brings astonishing history back home to Maroubra, The Southern Courier, Tuesday, 19 Dec 2017.
16. ^ Maroubra subdivision program, 12 January 1918, Stanton Auctioneers, State Library of New South Wales Z/SP/M8
17. ^ Randwick Metropolis Council:Maroubra Speedway Archived 25 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
18. ^ Also, streets in the area — e.one thousand., Astoria Circuit (USS Astoria), Chicago Avenue (USS Chicago), Lexington Place (USS Lexington), Morris Place (USS Morris), Neosho Way (USS Neosho), Perkins Street (USS Perkins), Sims Lane and Sims Grove (USS Sims) — were named after Allied ships that had been engaged in the Battle of the Coral Bounding main (see Randwick City Council: Historic Street & Place Names)
19. ^ Race riots spread to suburbs. Sydney Forenoon Herald, 12 Dec 2005
20. ^ Maroubra beach declared national surfing reserve – ABC World Today
21. ^ Sydney.com
22. ^ Pacific Foursquare Webpage
23. ^ Walsh's Pharmacy Website ^{[ permanent dead link ]}
24. ^ "Woolworths Supermarket Store Locator". Archived from the original on nine March 2011. Retrieved viii March 2011.
25. ^ "Sand Hotel: Location". Archived from the original on xviii February 2011. Retrieved 8 March 2011.
26. ^ https://thebeast.com.au/events/south-maroubra-christmas-carols/ The Animate being: Maroubra Carols
27. ^ Sydney Forenoon Herald, 22 February 1947
28. ^ New Hotels, The Sydney Morning time Herald, (Tuesday, 21 July 1925), p.vi; Liquor Licenses, The Sydney Morning Herald, (Tuesday, 2 March 1926), p.vi.
29. ^ 'Maroubra beach hotel re-opens', Southern Courier 30/eleven/ten
30. ^ ^{a b} 'Clubs fight to survive', Southern Courier 14/04/2009
31. ^ Hotel at Maroubra: License Granted, The Sydney Morning Herald, (Tuesday, 26 October 1926), p.12.
32. ^ Suckling, L, "Beachside Maroubra relaunches with a new carte du jour and design", The Southern Courier, Tuesday, 20 Feb, 2014.
33. ^ Startlocal.com.au: Maroubra RSL profile
34. ^ Eastern and s eastern suburbs public transport network Transport for NSW
35. ^ "Heritage Branch – About Us". NSW Office of Environment and Heritage. Archived from the original on 4 September 2012. Retrieved iv February 2012.
36. ^ "Heritage Listings – Heritage Databases". NSW Office of Surround and Heritage. Archived from the original on 5 May 2010. Retrieved 4 Feb 2012.
37. ^ Video on YouTube
38. ^ "HOME".
39. ^ http://maroubrasynagogue.org.au/
40. ^ Airtight Maroubra Beach (Randwick City Council)
41. ^ Randwick City Council Archived three June 2017 at the Wayback Machine
42. ^ Anton Gorlin Photography Archived 7 June 2017 at the Wayback Machine
43. ^ Free Photography Guides Archived 10 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine
44. ^ Maroubra Fun Run Website Archived viii February 2011 at the Wayback Car
45. ^ http://canberratimes.com.au/domain/existent-estate-news/guy-sebastian-buys-in-maroubra-20131116-2xngt.html ^{[ permanent dead link ]}

References [edit]

Scott, Marker and Nolan, Tony, Maroubra: Aureate Age of the 'Bra, Kingsclear Books, (Alexandra), 2014 ISBN 978-0-9876067-3-0 Coordinates: 33°56′58″S 151°xiv′37″E  /  33.94944°S 151.24361°East  / -33.94944; 151.24361

External links [edit]

• Maroubra travel guide from Wikivoyage
• Maroubra at Curlie
• Maroubra Districts Sleeping room of Commerce

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maroubra,_New_South_Wales

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