Matraville
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Matraville is located in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is approximately by road south-east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Randwick.
Key facts
- Australian place.type
- suburb
- Australian place.name
- Matraville
- Australian place.city
- Sydney
- Australian place.state
- nsw
- Australian place.image
- Matraville city centre.JPG
- Australian place.caption
- Matraville town centre
- Australian place.alternative_location_map
- Australia NSW metro Sydney
- Australian place.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in metropolitan Sydney
- Australian place.local_map
- yes
- Australian place.zoom
- 13
- Australian place.lga
- City of Randwick
- Australian place.postcode
- 2036
- Australian place.pop
- 9,925
- Australian place.elevation
- 25
- Australian place.est
- 1904
- Australian place.stategov
- Maroubra
- Australian place.fedgov
- Kingsford Smith
- Australian place.near nw
- Hillsdale
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- suburb
- Country
- Australia
- Population
- 9925
- Elevation
- 24
- Shares border with
- Maroubra
- Image
- St Agnes Church Matraville 001.jpg
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- Commons category
- Matraville, New South Wales
- postal code
- 2036
- male population
- 4761
- female population
- 5044
- associated electoral district
- Kingsford Smith
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Matraville is located in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is approximately by road south-east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Randwick.
==History== Matraville is named in honour of James Matra (1746–1806), an American sailor and diplomat, who was a midshipman on the voyage by Captain James Cook to Botany Bay in 1770. Matra was born in New York, but later settled in England. Matra had walked over the area with Cook and his close friend, botanist Joseph Banks. Matra had proposed to the British government that it establish a colony at Botany Bay in 1783, and settle dispossessed American Loyalists who had to leave the United States after the American War of Independence. Matra offered to be its 'Conductor and Governor'. The Pitt administration concurred with Matra's proposal but declined to offer him the government of the intended colony. Instead he was given the post of Consul at Tangier, where he remained until his death in 1806. Sandstone wall at the site of the soldiers' settlement|thumb
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Matraville” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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