Copacabana, New South Wales

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Copacabana is a town on the Central Coast of New South Wales in Australia, just over an hour north of Sydney. This Copacabana (so named by real estate developers in the mid twentieth century) is situated at the northern end of MacMasters Beach, the two beaches divided by Cochrane Lagoon. The northern headland of Copacabana beach is Tudibaring point, purported to mean 'place where the waves pound like a beating heart' in the local indigenous language. The bay itself is Allagai, which means 'nest of snakes' in the same language.

The next town north of Copacabana is Avoca Beach. The next town to the west is Kincumber.

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