Type: | suburb |
Sunshine | |
State: | nsw |
Alternative Location Map: | Australia Hunter Central Coast |
Lga: | City of Lake Macquarie |
Postcode: | 2264 |
Pop: | 475 |
Area: | 0.7 |
Est: | 1881 |
Parish: | Morisset |
Stategov: | Lake Macquarie |
Fedgov: | Hunter |
Dist1: | 9 |
Dir1: | E |
Location1: | Morisset |
Near-Nw: | Silverwater |
Near-N: | Silverwater |
Near-W: | Mirrabooka |
Near-E: | Lake Macquarie |
Near-S: | Lake Macquarie |
Sunshine is a suburb of the City of Lake Macquarie in New South Wales, Australia on a peninsula east of the town of Morisset on the western side of Lake Macquarie. The Awabakal were the first inhabitants of the area.[1]
Early industries included fishing, timbercutting, subsistence farming and boatbuilding.