Jervis Bay Territory

The Jervis Bay Territory ( German: Jervis Bay Territory ) is a 73 -square-mile territory of Australia and is mostly situated on a peninsula south of Jervis Bay on Australia's east coast. In Jervis Bay Territory lived in 2009 almost 400 people.

Geography

The Jervis Bay Territory - surrounded by New South Wales and the Pacific - consists of large parts of the Bherwerre Peninsula, which forms the southern end of Jervis Bay. In the west, the area extends to the St Georges Basin and Sussex Inlet Channel lagoon. A narrow strip of land on the Beecroft Peninsula, north of the entrance to Jervis Bay around the Point Perpendicular Lighthouse also part of the territory.

The two villages Jervis Bay Village and Wreck Bay Village are the main settlements in the Jervis Bay Territory. Larger towns in the area are the seaside resorts of Huskisson, Vincentia and Sussex Inlet and about 40 km away city Nowra.

History

The area was in 1915 the state of New South Wales purchased by the federal government to the new capital of Canberra, which was under construction at that time, will have its own access to the sea. Until 1989, the Jervis Bay Territory exclave of the Australian Capital Territory, located about 160 kilometers to the west. Then he was awarded by the federal government, the self-government, and it was cleaved from the ACT.

The territory was the planned site of the only nuclear power plant in Australia, the nuclear power plant Jervis Bay, for the foundation were indeed in the 1970s already been carried out, but this has not then built.

Marine

The Royal Australian Navy, the largest employer in the territory, operates a port, training facilities and the Jervis Bay Territory Airport, which is also used for civilian purposes in the Jervis Bay Territory.

Tourism

Tourism is the main industry of the region. Every year, around 450,000 people visit the area.

The majority of the area of the territory is part of the Booderee National Park, with the Booderee Botanic Gardens. The waters off the coast are partly to Booderee National Park, part of the Jervis Bay Marine Park.