Barrenjoey, New South Wales

Geographical location

Barrenjoey Headland is a peninsula, the Ria Pittwater terminates at the northern end, and since 1998 a part of the Ku-ring -gai Chase National Park. The peninsula is one dune, called tombolo, connected to the mainland and is part of the Palm Beach suburb of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia. The peninsula consists of Hawkesbury sandstone which overlies the slate of the Narrabeen Group.

History

Barrenjoey emerged as an island about 18,000 years ago, was as an ice age ended and the river valleys of the area were flooded. The resulting island was probably again later connected to the mainland.

On March 2, 1788, the first governor of the penal colony Australia Arthur Phillip named on a journey of discovery the " Barrenjuee " peninsula ( what little kangaroo or wallaby means ). The name was pronounced differently in the course of time and only since 1966, the name Barrenjoey is generally recognized.

On the island, the Barrenjoey Head Lighthouse, built from the Hawkesbury sandstone is 1881. Today's Barrenjoey Head Lighthouse is a lighthouse lighthouse keeper's house, built by the colonial architect James Barnet on the peninsula. A customs house was built to control against smuggling land of rum in at Barrenjoey Headland in 1843 to trade the direction of Sydney; it was closed in 1903.

Tourism

The island is often hiked from a parking lot at Palm Beach and offers views of the coastline and the Broken Bay.