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Mt Keira Scout Camp
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NameMt Keira Scout Camp
Alternative NameCentral Illawarra District Scout CampTypeComplexGeolocation[1] Address551 , Mt Keira Rd, Mt Keira, Wollongong, 2500DescriptionThe Mount Keira Scout Camp was officially opened 9 November 1940 by the State Governor & Chief Scout, Lord Wakehurst and was attended by 800 Scouts, Cubs, Girl Guides & Brownies and 2,000 members of the public.
The Mount Keira Scout Camp is a rare instance of a scout camp in occupying a leased area within an area of national park/state forest in New South Wales. The historical reasons for this lie in the philanthropy of local industrialist and supporter of the scout movement, Mr A.S. (“Sid”) Hoskins, who supplied the site for the establishment of the scout camp on his company’s mining lease land. He not only supplied the land but financed the design and construction of the landscape by landscape designer and contractor, Paul Sorensen, and buildings by brother-in-law architect, Geoffrey Loveridge. The site later became part of what is now the Illawarra Escarpment State Conservation Area.
The 1940 opening of the camp was filmed by Cinesound Newsreel and shown around Australia as part of Australia’s morale-boosting, anti-fascist war effort
Source: Mt Keira Scout Camp Conservation Management Plan Vol 1.
Alternative NameCentral Illawarra District Scout CampTypeComplexGeolocation[1] Address551 , Mt Keira Rd, Mt Keira, Wollongong, 2500DescriptionThe Mount Keira Scout Camp was officially opened 9 November 1940 by the State Governor & Chief Scout, Lord Wakehurst and was attended by 800 Scouts, Cubs, Girl Guides & Brownies and 2,000 members of the public.The Mount Keira Scout Camp is a rare instance of a scout camp in occupying a leased area within an area of national park/state forest in New South Wales. The historical reasons for this lie in the philanthropy of local industrialist and supporter of the scout movement, Mr A.S. (“Sid”) Hoskins, who supplied the site for the establishment of the scout camp on his company’s mining lease land. He not only supplied the land but financed the design and construction of the landscape by landscape designer and contractor, Paul Sorensen, and buildings by brother-in-law architect, Geoffrey Loveridge. The site later became part of what is now the Illawarra Escarpment State Conservation Area.
The 1940 opening of the camp was filmed by Cinesound Newsreel and shown around Australia as part of Australia’s morale-boosting, anti-fascist war effort
Source: Mt Keira Scout Camp Conservation Management Plan Vol 1.
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Mt Keira Scout Camp. Shellharbour City Council, accessed 09/02/2026, https://discover.shellharbour.nsw.gov.au/nodes/view/11261