Nabiac is a small town on the Mid North Coast, New South Wales, Australia mainly in Great Lakes Council. A small part of the locality is in the City of Greater Taree: the border is defined by the Pacific Highway. It is north-west of Forster, and south of Taree.
Nabiac is the central town of the Wallamba Valley. As is typical of small North Coast towns, it developed in the second half of the 19th century as a small river port (later called Bullocks Wharf on the eastern edge of the town) for the hardwood-cutting (mainly Australian red cedar) trade. Later as the valley was cleared, small-scale dairying and corn-growing became dominant. At first milk was mainly bought by the dairy at Dyers Crossing (about 6 km west of Nabiac. Later fresh milk was also supplied to the Sydney market via the Sydney Milk Board. Prior to the mid 1950s, Nabiac was a relatively-isolated, but the relocation of the Pacific Highway at that time changed its nature and it has steadily become more of a highway service town and tourist stopping point.
The poet Les Murray was born in Nabiac, although his family lived in nearby Bunyah. He travelled to school in Nabiac for his primary and early high school education.
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Coordinates: 32°06′S 152°23′E / -32.1, 152.383
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Towns, suburbs and localities of the Great Lakes Council | Hunter & Mid North Coast Regions | New South Wales |
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Towns & Suburbs • Alderley • Alderley Creek • Allworth • Bennetts Head • Blueys Beach • Bombah Point • Boolambayte • Boomerang Beach • Booral • Booti Booti • Bulahdelah • Bulby Brush • Bundabah • Bungwahl • Bunyah • Bunyah Upper • Burgess Beach • Burraduc • Cape Hawke • Carrington • Charlottes Bay • Clareval • Coolongolook • Coomba • Coomba Bay • Coomba Park • Craven • Crawford River • Cureeki Creek • Darawank • Dewrang • Dirty Creek • Dungog • Elizabeth Beach • Failford • Fernhill • Forster • Forster Keys • Forster Waters • Friendship Key • Gereeba Island • Girvan • Green Point • Hawks Nest • Johnsons Creek • Karuah • Legges Camp • Lime Kiln • Limeburners Creek • Markwell • Mayers Flat • Milbrook • Mill Creek Upper • Minimbah • Monkerai • Mungo Brush • Myall Lakes • Myall Upper • Nabiac • Nerong • New Forster • Newells Creek • Nooroo • North Arm Cove • North Pindimar • Nugra • Nugramudgee • Pacific Palms • Pindimar • Pioneer Park • Pipers Bay • Rosenthal • Sandbar • Seal Rocks • Smiths Lake • South Pindimar • Stroud • Stroud Road • Sugarloaf Point • Tahlee • Tamboy • Tarbuck Bay • Tea Gardens • Telegherry • Terreel • The Branch • Tiona • Topi Topi • Tuncurry • Upper Karuah River • Upper Monkerai • Violet Hill • Wallamba Island • Wallingat • Wallingat River • Wallis Island • Wallis Lake • Wards River • Warranulla • Washpool • Wattley Hill • Weismantels • Whoota • Willina • Winda Woppa • Wootton • Yagon • Yagon Beach
Localities and points of interest • Myall Lakes • Port Stephens • Tahlee historic property
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