Mount Kembla
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Mount Kembla is a suburb and a mountain in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia. Mount Kembla is 6 kilometres west of Wollongong and 72 kilometres south of Sydney in the City of Wollongo
View of Mount Kembla from O'Briens Trail in 2024.
View of Mount Kembla from Mount Nebo
Mount Kembla Colliery railway incline, c.1900
Bushland near the Mount Kembla ring track
Cyclone Mahina
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Cyclone Mahina was the deadliest cyclone in recorded Australian history, and also potentially the most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded in the Southern Hemisphere. Mahina struck Bathurst Bay, Ca
Mount Kembla
…exploded, killing 96 men and boys. The Mount Kembla Mine disaster was the second worst post-settlement peace-time disaster of Australia's history (behind Cyclone Mahina), until the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria. The Mount Kembla mine worked the Bulli seam which outcrops at 800 feet (240 m) above sea level…
An illustration by Clement Lindley Wragge displaying Cyclone Mahina's estimated path