Tingira Heights, New South Wales

Tingira Heights is a suburb of City of Lake Macquarie in New South Wales, Australia, south-west of Newcastle's central business district on the eastern side of Lake Macquarie. It was developed in the 1960s.
The Awabakal are the traditional people of this area.
Tingira is the name of an aboriginal tribe on the NSW / Qld border, which means "open sea". A ship of the same name was Australia's first naval training vessel in 1912 and was decommissioned in 1941. In 1965 the H.M.A.S Tingira Old Boys Association asked to have a town named after the ship, and the name was adopted by the Violet Town Progress Association. Tingara is an alternative spelling.