Wingala is a locality in the suburb

Suburb

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s of North Curl Curl

North Curl Curl, New South Wales

North Curl Curl is a suburb in northern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. North Curl Curl is located 19 kilometres north-east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Warringah Council and is part of the Northern Beaches region.-History:Curl Curl...

 and Dee Why

Dee Why, New South Wales

Dee Why is a suburb of northern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Dee Why is located 18 kilometres north-east of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre of the local government area of Warringah Council, and along with Brookvale is considered to be...

, in Sydney

Sydney

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, New South Wales

New South Wales

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, Australia

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. It is within the Warringah

Warringah Council

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 Local Government Area. It refers to Wingala Hill, which lies between the floodplains of Dee Why Lagoon and Curl Curl Lagoon, and forms Dee Why Head where it meets the sea.

The name is used predominately by people who live in the Dee Why area of Wingala and wish to disassociate themselves from the rest of Dee Why. This is because the Wingala locality contains many more upmarket properties than the rest of Dee Why, which is well known in the area for its many apartment

Apartment

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 blocks.

Wingala Reserve can be found on the southern slope of Wingala Hill, on the border between Dee Why and North Curl Curl. It is a piece of crown land

Crown land

In Commonwealth realms, Crown land is an area belonging to the monarch , the equivalent of an entailed estate that passed with the monarchy and could not be alienated from it....

that demonstrates some of the vegetation that once existed all over the area.

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