Long Point, New South Wales
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- Note: There are several other locations in New South Wales also called Long Point.
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 Aerial view (looking west) of Long Point and Ingleburn. | |||||||||||||
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| Coordinates: 34°0′43″S 150°53′49″E / 34.01194°S 150.89694°E | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | New South Wales | ||||||||||||
| City | Sydney | ||||||||||||
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| Established | 1975 | ||||||||||||
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| • Total | 173 (2021 census)[1] | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 2564 | ||||||||||||
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Long Point is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Long Point is located 46 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Campbelltown.
Situated on a bend in the Georges River, this area was long known as Long Point, Long Nose Point or just The Point until formally being dubbed Long Point in 1975. The land was first granted to settler Thomas Mills in the early 19th century before being consumed by William Redfern's Campbellfields Estate a few years later. Later it was considered part of Macquarie Fields. In the 1930s high-profile gangsters from East Sydney would use small houses set up in Long Point bushland as hiding places from the law.
Sand was mined in the area for a number of years and once mining work was completed, access trails were preserved for the fire brigade. It was preserved as a Scenic Protection Area in the 1970s by Campbelltown Council.[2]
