• Source: Bogangar

Bogangar is a town in the Tweed Shire located in north-eastern New South Wales, Australia, and includes Cudgen Lake, Norries Headland and the locality of Cabarita Beach on the east. Locally, the names Bogangar and Cabarita Beach are interchangeable, with more residents choosing to use the latter. In the 2016 Census, Bogangar had a population of 3,060.
Bogangar takes its name from the Bandjalang-Yugambeh dialect chain word `bobingah' meaning a highland.




History


The word Bogangar is of Aboriginal origin and literally means "a place of many pippies" and tiny molluscs were once encountered along the shorelines of the Pacific.
Bogangar Public School was opened on 16 February 2004.




See also


Cabarita Beach, New South Wales
Northern Rivers




References

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• Bogangar
• Cabarita Beach, New South Wales
• List of places in New South Wales by population
• Northern Rivers
• Tweed Heads, New South Wales
• List of alternative lifestyle communities
• Electoral district of Tweed
• Pacific Motorway (Brisbane–Brunswick Heads)
• Queensland Football Association
• Rainforest Way