Dictionary of Sydney

The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

Mount Colah

Far northern residential suburb, bordered to the east by Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park. Its name of believed to come from an Aboriginal word meaning 'koala'.

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Mining and farming were early industries, but suburban development in Mount Colah came with the building of a Housing Commission estate in the 1960s.