Jingera

Jingera

Jingera

Town in New South Wales, Australia

Jingera is a locality in the Snowy Monaro Region, New South Wales, Australia.[2][3] It lies south of Captains Flat and northeast of Bredbo. At the 2016 census, it had a population of 39.[1] It had a public school from 1889 to 1911 and from 1914 to 1941, often operating "half-time".[4]

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In 1867, the locality was the site of the ambush and murder of four police constables by the notorious gang led by the Clarke brothers.[5]

References

  1. [1]
    Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Jingera". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 24 December 2017. Edit this at Wikidata
  2. [2]
    "Jingera". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. Retrieved 24 December 2017. Edit this at Wikidata
  3. [3]
    "Jingera". OpenStreetMap. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
  4. [4]
    "Jingera Public School in the School history database search". New South Wales Department of Education. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
  5. [5]
    "THE MURDER. OF THE FOUR CONSTABLES. AT JINGERA". Empire (Sydney, NSW : 1850 - 1875). 15 January 1867. p. 4. Retrieved 18 December 2020.


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