Jingera

Town in New South Wales, Australia
35°40′57″S 149°26′02″E / 35.68250°S 149.43389°E / -35.68250; 149.43389Population39 (SAL 2016)[1][2]Postcode(s)2621Elevation908 m (2,979 ft)Location
  • 67 km (42 mi) SE of Canberra
  • 57 km (35 mi) SE of Queanbeyan
  • 86 km (53 mi) NNE of Cooma
  • 122 km (76 mi) W of Batemans Bay
  • 331 km (206 mi) SW of Sydney
LGA(s)Snowy Monaro Regional CouncilRegionMonaroCountyBeresfordParishSherlockState electorate(s)MonaroFederal division(s)Eden-Monaro
Localities around Jingera:
Captains Flat Captains Flat Kindervale
Tinderry Jingera Jerrabattgulla
Tinderry Anembo Hereford Hall

Jingera (/dʒɪŋɡərə/) is a locality in the Snowy Monaro Region, New South Wales, Australia.[3][4] It lies south of Captains Flat and northeast of Bredbo. At the 2021 census, it had a population of 39. It had a public school from 1889 to 1911 and from 1914 to 1941, often operating "half-time".[5]

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.[6]

References

  1. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Jingera (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2016. Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Jingera (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2016 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022. Edit this at Wikidata
  3. ^ "Jingera". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. Retrieved 24 December 2017. Edit this at Wikidata
  4. ^ "Jingera". OpenStreetMap. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
  5. ^ "Jingera Public School in the School history database search". New South Wales Department of Education. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
  6. ^ "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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