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Moving towards understanding the carbon cycle on finer spatial and temporal scales, global coverage such as provided by satellite missions is critical. Equally important when making inferences about spatial and temporal variability in fluxes is ensuring there are no coherent biases in the measurements; an extensive spatial coverage of validation measurements is therefore critical. The southern hemisphere is home to environments that challenge satellite measurements and retrievals, such as deserts and extensive ocean surfaces, but contains relatively few TCCON sites. Of these, Wollongong is the 3rd longest running TCCON site behind Lauder and Darwin, and also has a long history of measurements within the Network for Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change (NDACC).  In this paper we describe the TCCON station at Wollongong, which has been operating since May 2008. In Section \ref{site_desc} we describe the site, instrumentation, measurements, retrieval process and quality control. Section \ref{GHG_ts} describes the time series of measured total column GHG amounts.