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Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia
Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia

Coffs Harbour, town and port, northeastern New South Wales, Australia. It comprises Coffs Harbour Jetty (at the artificial harbour) and Coffs Harbour (2 miles [3 km] west on the Pacific Highway).

The town was founded in 1847 to serve a cedar-lumbering district, and it was known as Brelsford until 1861, when it was gazetted as a village and adopted its present name; the name was corrupted from that of a shipbuilder, John Korff. In 1906 it was incorporated into Dorrigo Shire, which became Coffs Harbour Shire in 1957. Before the advent of the railway in 1915, Coffs Harbour was an important coastal shipping outlet for the Bellingen, Dorrigo, and Orara districts. With air and rail connections to Sydney (about 275 miles [440 km] southwest), it has become a seaside resort and commercial centre for an area of banana, vegetable, and dairy farming and fishing. Pop. (2006) local government area, 64,910; (2011) local government area, 68,413.

This article was most recently revised and updated by Lorraine Murray.