Collaroy Beach | Tourism In Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
By Unknown 20:30 Australia, Oseania, Sydney
Collaroy is a suburb in northern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Collaroy is 22 kilometres north-east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Warringah council. It is part of the Northern Beaches region.
History: This area was originally part of Narrabeen but was renamed after the collier s.s collaroy ran aground on the beach in 1881 during a storm. it was refloated and later wreced on the California coast in 1889. Most of development has accurred since the mid twentieth century.
Collaroy Beach Post Office opended on 12 Februaly 1923. Collaroy Plateu Post Office opened on 1 April 1949 and closed in 1988. Collaroy Plateau West Post Office opened on 1 November 1967 and was renamed Collaroy Plateu in 1996.
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Narrabeen is a beachside suburb in northern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Narrabeen is 23 kilometres north-east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Warringah Council and is part of the Northern Beaches region.
Beaches: There are four beaches along the Narrabeen stretch, north Narrabeen, Narrabeen, South Narraben and Collaroy beach. Although Collaroy is a separate suburb, its beach lies along the same stretch. All beaches have their own Surf Life Saving Club. There is also a lagoon at Narrabeen. Narrabeen beach is mentioned in the Beach Boys son Surin' U.A.A, which in their live concert on 28 Novebember 1992 at North Narabeen Reserve they performed at the end of encore.
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North Narrabeen Beach | Tourism In Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
By Unknown 18:18 Australia, Oseania, Sydney
North Narrabeen is a suburb in South Wales, Australia 25 kilometres north of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Pitwater Council. Nortn Narrabeen is part of the Northern Beachers region. North Narrabeen lies on the northhern shoresh of Narrabeen lagoon, bounded by Warriewood to the north, Elanora Heighhts to the west and extends east to the ocean at Narrabeen Head . Narrabeen is opposite on the southern shore of the lagoon.
The northern section of Narrabeen Beach is known as North Narrabeen Beach. This ocean beach, together with the North Narrabeen Surf Lifesaving Club, are to the south of the lagoon in the suburb of Narrabeen.
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Turimetta Beach Sydney | Tourism In Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
By Unknown 18:03 Australia, Oseania, Sydney
Turimetta Beach is a beach in Sydney's Northhern Beaches. It is 350 meters long and is backed by steep bluffs. Swimmingg can be hazardous because of trips thant usually form at the centre and both ends of the beach. The beach is not patrolled by lifeguards. Turrimtta is some often than not a swimmers' beach only. The surf uality is poor and surfers usually frequent Nort Narrabeen Beach to the south of Warriewood Beach to north.
The headland is popular rock fishing sport so many shark sightings, both confirmed and uncomfirmed, have occurred.
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Warriewood Beach | Tourism In Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
By Unknown 22:13 Australia, Oseania, Sydney
Warriewood is a suburb in northern Sydney, In The state of New South Wales, Australia. Warriewood is located 26 kilometres north of the Sydney central Business districkt, in the local government area of Pittwater Council. Warriewood is part of the Northern Beaches region.
Warriewood tahes its name from the Warriewood Estate that was subdivided in 1906 by Henry F Halloran, Who had purchased it from the McPherson family.
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Mona Vale Beach Sydney | Tourismn In Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
By Unknown 00:07 Australia, Oseania, Sydney
Mona Vale Is as suburbs In Northern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located 28 kilometres north of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative central of the local government area of Pittwater Council. Mona Vale is also part of the Northern Beaches region
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Newport Beach | Tourism In Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
By Unknown 22:59 Australia, Oseania, Sydney
Newport is a suburb in northern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Pitwater Council. It is part of the Northern Beaches region.
Newport derived its name from being a "new port" for steamers carrying passengers and cargo such as local shell lime and firewood. Bungan Castle is a medieval style stone castle on Bungan Head built in 1919 by Adolph Albers, a German art dealer.
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Bilgola Beach, Sydney | Tourism In Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
By Unknown 22:43 Australia, Oseania, Sydney
Bilgola Beach is a suburb in northern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia 33 kilometres north east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Pittater Council. It is part of the Northern Beaches region. it and Bilgoa Plateau were gazetted as suburbs in 2012 dividing the previous suburb of Bilgoal.
Location: Bilgola Beach is located on the Tasman Sea side of the Barrenjoey Peninsula between Avalon to the north and Newport to the south. The land rises steeply behind Bilgola Beach to Bilgola Plateau and the descends to Clareville on the western side of the peninsula.
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Avalon Beach Sydney | Tourism In Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
By Unknown 22:11 Australia, Oseania, Sydney
Avalon Beach is a northern beachside suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located 35 kilometres north of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Pittwater Council, in the Northhern Beaches region. The area is also known as Avalon, with the name Avalon Beach being assigned during a change in boundaries and names in the Pittwater region in 2012.
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Whale Beach Sydney | Tourism In Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
By Unknown 21:42 Australia, Oseania, Sydney
Whale Beach is a northern beachside suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Whale Beach is located 40 kilometres north of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Pittater Council, in the Norhern Beaches region.
At the northern end of the beach, just off the rocks, a well-known surf break called the Wedge is located.
Whale Beach is the Location of a distincive home designed by the architective home designed by the architect Alexander Stewart Jolly. Situated at Careel Head, overlooking Whale Beach, Careel House is a single storey bungalow made from sandstone blocks that were quarrid at the site. It was built in 1931 and is heritage listed.
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Caneel Bay | Tourism In Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
By Unknown 20:55 Australia, Oseania, Sydney
Caneel Bay is a bay and adjacent locality in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The locality is within the suburb of Avalon Beach. The bay lies adjacent to the suburbs of Avalon Beach and Palm Beach in the norh west of Pittater.
Environment: The bay has the largest stand of mangroves and sea grass beds in Pittwater. The Bay is also a fish nursery important to Pittwater and nearby coastal waters. 116 species of birds have been recorded as having been in Careel Bay. Some of these birds, from East-Asia, use Careel Bay as a stop off area. The Federal Government and Australia people are committed to a number of agreements to protect theses birds and their habitat, including the China-Australia Migratory Bird Agreement and the Japan-Australia Migratory Bird Agreement agreements
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Barrenjoey, Sydney New Sout Wales | Tourism In Sydney, Australia
By Unknown 20:09 Australia, Oseania, Sydney
Barrenjoey is a locality in the suburb of Palm Beach, at the most nothern tip of Pittwater. The headland is mostly made up of hawwkesbury sandstone which overlays Narrabeen shale. Around 10,000years ago the headland was cut off from the mainland due to the rising sea level; subequent buildup of a sand spit or tombolo reconnected the island to the mainland (a 'tied island'). it is the location of the Barrenjoey Head Lighthouse, a lighthouse that was first lit in 1881.
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Palm Beach, Sydney New South Wales | Tourism In Sydney, Australia
By Unknown 19:58 Australia, Oseania, Sydney
Palm Beach is a northern beachside suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Palm Beach is located 41 kilometres north of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Pittwater Council, in the Norhhem Beaches region. Palm Beach sits on a peninsula at the end of Barrenjoy Road, between Pittwater and Broken Bay. Palm Beach is sometimes colloquially referred to as 'Palmy" Palm Beach is used for exterior filming of the soap opera Home and Away, as the fictional town of Summer Bay.
Geography: Palm Beach is bounded by Broken Bay to the north, the Tasman Sea (within the South Pacific Ocean) to the east, Whale Beach. Avalon and Clareville to the South, and Pittwater to the west. Barrenjoey Headland, which is in the northernmost point rises quite sharply from the beach to over 100 meters above sea level, and features an operational lighthouse. The narrow sandy isthmus or 'tomlolo' linking the south side of undertaken during the 1980s to combat san erosion.
Localities: There are 5 localities at Palm Beach
Landmarks
Geography: Palm Beach is bounded by Broken Bay to the north, the Tasman Sea (within the South Pacific Ocean) to the east, Whale Beach. Avalon and Clareville to the South, and Pittwater to the west. Barrenjoey Headland, which is in the northernmost point rises quite sharply from the beach to over 100 meters above sea level, and features an operational lighthouse. The narrow sandy isthmus or 'tomlolo' linking the south side of undertaken during the 1980s to combat san erosion.
Localities: There are 5 localities at Palm Beach
- Barrenjoey
- Sand Point
- Caneel Bay
- Paradise Beach
- Norh Avalon
Landmarks
- Barrenjoey Lighthouse
- Palm Beach-Boanbong Water Reservoir
- Palm Beach-McKay Water Reservoir
- Palm Beach-Squaters Lodge
- Blueberry Ash
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Sincle 1998, Bridge Climb has made it possible for climb the southern half of the bridge. Tours run throughout day, from dawn to dusk and are only canselled for electrical storms or high wind. Night climbs are also available. groups of climbers are provided with protective clothing appropriate to the prevailling weather conditions and are given an orientation before climbing. During the climb, attendees are secured to the top. At the summit, the group crosses to the western side of the arch for the descent. Each climb is a three and a half hour experience
Bridge Climb Sydney is the company that provides climb experiences to the top of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Over 3 Million visitors from over 137 different countries and territories have climbed the southern half of the bridge.
Four different types of climbs can be taken throughout dawn, day, twilight and night, originating with The Bridge Climb, which guides climb, which guides climbers to the top of the bridge in tound-trip that takes over three hours. tobetter explore the engineering of thesteel bridge and then to the top. The express climb is offered for a shortened experience. In January 2012, bridge Climb introduced a fourth climb option, the Mandarin Climb, Where guests are taken on a climb by a Mandarin-speaking guide.
There have been over 4,000 proposals at the summit of the bridge and couples also have the option to get married on the bridge, 134 meters above Sydney Harbour. The experience has also attraced many famous actors, musicians and members of royalty, including cast members of The Biggest Loser, Kylie Minogue, Zac Efron, Nicole Kidman, Robert De Niro, Prince Harry and more recently Oprah Winfrey.
Anyone over the age of ten years and in good health can climb. tere is no maximum age, with the oldest climber being 100 years old. Bridge Climb's most frequent climber is 85 year old Lioyd Poulton, who had done the climb 50 times as at Agustust 2012.
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The Blue Mountains National Park is a protected national park that is located in the Blue Mountains region of New South Wales, in eastern Australia. The 267,954-hectare (662,130-acre) national Park is situated approximatetely 80 kilometres (50 mi) west of Sydney, and the park boundary is quite irregular as it is broken up by roads, urban areas and inholiding. Despite the name 'mountains', the area is ans uplifted plateuau dissected by a number of larges rivers. The highst point in the park is Mount Werong at 1,215 metres (3,986 ft) above sea level; while the low point is on the Nepean River at 20 metres (66 ft) above sea level as it leaves the park.
The national park is one of the sight protected areas that, in 2000, was inscribed to forn part of the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Greater Blue Mountains Area.
The Blue Mountains National Park is the most central of the eight protected areas within the World Heritage Site and it forms part of the Great Dividing Range. The park is also listed on the Australian Heritage Register and the overall complex of Blue Mountains regional walking tracks is listed on the State Heritages Register.
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The Blue Mountains is a Sout Wales, Australia. It borders on Sydney's metropolitan area, its foothills starting about 50 kilometres (31 mi) west of the state capital. The public's understanding of the extent of the Blue Mountains is varied, as it forms only part of an extensive mountainous area associated with the Great Dividing Range. Officially the Blue Mountains is bounded by the Nepean and Hawkesbury Rivers in the east, the Coxs River and lake Burragorang to the west and south, and the Wolganand Colo Rivers to the north. Geologically, it is situated in the central part of the Sydney Basin.
The Blue Mountains are a dissected plateau carved in sandstone bedrock. They are now a series of ridge lines separated by gorges up to 760 metres (2, 490 ft) deep. The highest point in the Blue Mountains, as it is now defined, is an unnamed point with an elevation of 1,189 m (3,901 ft) seve kilometres north-east of Lithgow. However, the highest point in the broader region once considered to be the Blue Mountains is Mount Bindo, elevation 1,362 m (4,469 ft). A large part of the Blue Mountains is incorporated into the Greater Blue Mountains Area World Heritage Site, consisting of seven national park areas and a conservation reserve.
The Blue Mountain area includes the local government areas of the City of Blue Mountains, the City of Hawkesbury, the City of Lithgow and Oberon Shire.
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Sydney Football Stadium (SFS), currenty know by is sponsorship name Alilianz Stadium, is a football stadium located in Moore Park, Sydney, Australia. Built in 1988, the stadium is Sydney's premier rectangular field venue for rugby league, rugby union and association football. The Kangaroos, the Wallabies and the Socceroos occasionally play at the stadium, while the Sydney Roosters, NSW Waratahs and Sydney FC are the ground's major tenants.
Sydney Football Stadium usually hosts both NRL semi finals and one preliminary final, and also held the annual pre-season Charity Shield football match between South Sydney and St George Illawarra for a number of years. All NSWRL/ARL Rugby League Grand Finals as well as the first Grand Final under the NRL banner were played there between 1988 and 1998.
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The Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) is a sport stadium in Sydney, Australia. It is used for Test cricket, One Day International cricket, Twenty 20 cricket an d Australia rules footbal, as well as some rugby league footbal and rugby union matcches. It is the home ground for the New South Wales Blue Cricket team, the Sydney Sixers of the Big Bash League and the Sydney Swans Australia Footbal League club. It is owned and operated by the SCG Trust that also manages the Sydney Footbal Stadium located nexs door. Until the 44, 000 seat Football Stadium was opened in 1988, the Sydney Cricket Ground was the major rugby league venue in Sydney.
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Sydney Olympic Park is a large sporting, cultural and leisure complex in western Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is also Olympic Park is located 16 kilometres west of the Sydney Central business district, in the local government area of Album.
The area was redeveloped for the 2000 Olympics. The facilities built continue to be used for sporting and cultural events, including the Sydney Royal Easter Show, Sydney Festival, Stereosonic, Big Day Out, Soundwave, Sydney 500 and a number of world-class sporting fixtures. The suburb also contains commercial development and extensive parklands. The area was originally part of the suburb of Homebush Bay, but was designated a suburb in its own right in 2009.
