Picnic Point, New South Wales
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  Picnic Point Location in greater metropolitan Sydney | |||||||||||||
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| Coordinates: 33°58′9″S 151°0′22″E / 33.96917°S 151.00611°E | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | New South Wales | ||||||||||||
| City | Sydney | ||||||||||||
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| Elevation | 26 m (85 ft) | ||||||||||||
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| • Total | 6,413 (SAL 2021)[1] | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 2213 | ||||||||||||
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Picnic Point is a suburb in South-western Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is a part of the local government area of City of Canterbury-Bankstown, and is located 23 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district. Picnic Point is a residential suburb on the northern bank of the Georges River. Located within Picnic Point is Yeramba Lagoon which is the largest tract of National Park within the Canterbury–Bankstown Council, it is home to numerous species of native fauna and flora.
Picnic Point was the name given to the geographical feature on the Georges River. The suburb was originally part of East Hills, which stretched south from Bankstown to the river and east to The River Road.[2] Picnic Point was gazetted as a suburb in 1975, with new boundaries gazetted in 1994.[3]
During World War II, Picnic Point National Park was the location of a remote receiving station and operations bunker that was owned and operated by the RAAF.[4] This facility was used in conjunction with two other facilities, one of them located in Bankstown, the Bankstown Bunker, which was RAAF headquarters at the time and the other in Bass Hill which was a transmitting station in Johnston Road. The location of the remote receiving station in Picnic Point is now located under the Transgrid South Sydney electricity sub station.[5][6]
