Everything about Broken Bay totally explained
Broken Bay is a large inlet of the
Pacific Ocean located about 50 km north of
Sydney on the coast of
New South Wales,
Australia.
Overview
The entrance to Broken Bay lies between Barrenjoey Island at
Palm Beach, and
Box Head. The inlet has three arms, being the estuary of the
Hawkesbury River from the west,
Pittwater to the south, and
Brisbane Water to the north. These three arms are
flooded rivers (rias) formed when
sea level was much lower than it's now.
Lion Island is located in Broken Bay. It is so-called because it has the distinctive profile of a sitting lion. It is a nature sanctuary and has a colony of
Fairy Penguins on it.
Discovery
The bay was named by
Captain Cook when he passed it on the evening of
6 May 1770, seeing to the north "some
broken land that appear'd to form a bay". There may have been a little initial confusion about where Cook meant,
Matthew Flinders had
Hawkesworth's
Voyages which erroneously gives the latitude as 33°42' (near the
Narrabeen lagoon).
On
November 28,
2005, documentary filmmaker Damien Lay claimed that the wreckage of a
Japanese midget submarine, which disappeared after the
attack on Sydney Harbour in
1942, was buried under sand on the seabed, just east of Lion Island. Lay claimed to have confirmed that copper wiring found at the site was consistent with that used in similar Japanese vessels.
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)However, a few weeks later,
New South Wales Planning Minister
Frank Sartor announced that sonar scans conducted by the
New South Wales Heritage Office at the location specified had found no trace of the lost submarine.
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Pittwater is a popular sailing area and is bordered by the suburbs including
Church Point,
Bayview,
Clareville, and Palm Beach.
Brisbane Water has the towns of
Gosford and
Woy Woy on its shores.
The
Roman Catholic Diocese of Broken Bay founded in 1986 extends from Wyoming to Manly and out to Pennant Hills.
Further Information
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