Why Bellingen?
What 2454 has that nowhere else does. Every fact sourced.
- A calendar packed with festivals
The town hosts the Bellingen Jazz and Blues Festival, the Bello Winter Music Festival, the Global Carnival, and the Readers and Writers Festival, which began in 2011.Source: Wikipedia
- The setting of a Booker Prize winner
Bellingen is the notional setting of Peter Carey's Booker Prize-winning novel Oscar and Lucinda. The town was also a filming location for the 2003 comedy Danny Deckchair.Source: Wikipedia
- One letter separates town and river
Surveyor Clement Hodgkinson wrote down the Gumbaynggirr name as 'Billingen'. A draughtsman reportedly misread the 'n' as an 'r', so the river became the Bellinger while the town stayed Bellingen.Source: Wikipedia
- A community market for over 40 years
The Bellingen Community Market has run monthly for more than 40 years, with live music and over 200 stalls.Source: Wikipedia
And the whole area: Why Bello?
Small shire, big story. Every fact sourced.
- World Heritage on the doorstep
Dorrigo National Park is part of the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia World Heritage Area.Source: Wikipedia
- Where two rivers meet the sea
At Urunga, the Bellinger and Kalang rivers come together and meet the ocean.Source: Wikipedia
- Gumbaynggirr Country
The Bellingen Shire is on Gumbaynggirr Country.Source: Wikipedia
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