Wyee, New South Wales


Wyee is a small town in the Lake Macquarie region of New South Wales, Australia, in the City of Lake Macquarie. It is near the Sydney-Newcastle Freeway and has a railway station on NSW TrainLink's Central Coast & Newcastle Line. It had a population of 1,487 in 2001, which significantly increased to 2,588 in 2011, and decreased to 2,406 in 2016.
Wyee is said to be derived from an Awabakal Aboriginal term for "fire" or "place of bushfires".
Wyee is part of the City of Lake Macquarie but it lacks a connection to sewer system; there are the Hunter Water Sewage Treatment Plant and the Wyong Shire Treatment Plant in the area.
Wyee Colliery, when State-owned, operated here 1962–2002. It re-opened in 2004-5 as Mannering Colliery, operated by the Centennial Coal Coy.