ILLAWARRA, a fertile district of New South Wales, Aus tralia, extending from about 33 m. S. of Sydney, along the coast southwards for 4o m. to Shoalhaven. It is thickly populated, and supplies Sydney with the greater part of its dairy produce. There are also numerous collieries, and iron ore, fireclay and freestone are plentiful. The Illawarra Lake, a salt lagoon, 9 m. long and 3 m. wide, is encircled by hills and is connected with the sea by a narrow channel; quantities of fish are caught and wild fowl are abundant along its shores. The chief towns in the district are Bulli, Wollongong, Kiama and Geringong.
a maritime department of north western France, formed in 1790 out of the eastern part of the old province of Brittany. Pop. (1931) 562,558. Area 2,699 sq.m. It is bounded N. by the English Channel, the Bay of St. Michel and the department of Manche ; E. by Mayenne ; S. by Loire Inferieure; and W. by Morbihan and Cotes-du-Nord. The de partment consists of the basin of the upper Vilaine, with those of its tributaries (all navigable), the Ille from the north, the Seiche from the east, and the Meu from the west, and the coastland north of the low watershed from the estuary of the Rance on the west to that of the Couesnon on the east. The Vilaine is navigable as far north as Rennes, which is connected by canal via the Ille with Evran on the Rance. The rich Marais de Dol, protected by dykes from the sea, occupies most of the north coastal plain. The coast is rocky and dangerous. The climate is oceanic, temperate and rainy, with fogs in spring and autumn. The soil, originally poor, has been improved by the use of artificial manure. Cereals are grown, chiefly wheat, buckwheat, oats and barley. Potatoes, beet root, early vegetables, flax and hemp are also largely grown, and tobacco is cultivated in the arrondissement of St. Malo. Orchards are abundant, especially near Dol. Stock-raising and dairying are important. Lead mines and quarries of slate, granite, etc., are worked. There are boat-building yards, iron and copper foundries and forges, and a widespread tanning industry. Sail-cloth, rope, pottery, boots and shoes (Fougeres), farming implements, paper and furniture are also made. The chief ports are St. Malo and St. Servan. Fishing is very active on the coast, and St. Malo, St. Servan and Cancale send fleets to the Newfoundland codbanks. There are also important oyster-fisheries in the Bay of St. Michel, especially at Cancale. Dinard is the chief of a group of fashion able bathing-resorts. Exports include agricultural products, but ter, mine-posts and dried fish; imports, live-stock, coal, timber, building materials and wheat. The department is served by the Ouest-Etat railway. Ille-et-Vilaine is divided into the arrondisse ments of Fougeres, St. Malo, Redon and Rennes, and it consists of 43 cantons and 36o communes. The chief town is Rennes, which is the seat of an archbishop and of a court of appeal, head quarters of the X. army corps, and the centre of an academie (educational division).