Jervis Bay

- 35.084517150.732079Koordinaten: 35 ° 5 ' 4 " S, 150 ° 43' 55" E

The Jervis Bay is a bay in the southeast of Australia. The bay with an area of ​​102 square kilometers, opens in the east to the Tasman Sea, a marginal sea of ​​the Pacific Ocean. The West and North of the book belongs to New South Wales, while the south coast and a coastal strip north include the output of the bay to the Jervis Bay Territory.

Landscape

The Jervis Bay is about 200 kilometers south of Sydney, the nearest major town Nowra lies at a distance of about 40 kilometers. To the south lies the Behwere Peninsula, which ends at the Governors Head and forms the bulk of the Jervis Bay Territory. To the north is the Beecroft Peninsula, which ends at Point Perpendicular, where the Point Perpendicular lighthouse. The 21 -meter high lighthouse is managed by New South Wales and is an enclave in the Jervis Bay Territory, which includes a coastal strip in the south of the peninsula. A large area of ​​Beecroft Peninsulta is reserved by the Royal Australian Navy for target practice their warships. The output of the by the Bowen Iceland is located. Significant rivers flow not in the bay.

Are the settlements Jervis Bay Village, Hyams Beach, Vincentia, Huskisson and Callala Beach on the coast of the bay. In the southwest of the bay is a naval port. Some two kilometers south of it lies the military airfield Jervis Bay Airport. The port also includes the Cadet School HMAS Creswell is the Royal Australian Navy.

History

James Cook saw the bay was the first European and named it St George 's Head, as he sighted on St George 's Day April 1770. He called the Point Perpendicular Long Nose. 1791, the bay was named by Lieutenant Bowen Jervis Bay to the British Admiral John Jervis. 1811, the Governor of New South Wales Lachlan Macquarie in the bay and looked for the southern part of the bay and Bowen Iceland on. In 1822, the Aboriginal people living there were relocated to Wreck Bay. The first lighthouse was built in the 1860s; later he had to be re- built in a more suitable place. In the same period was the first European settlement. 1911 chose the Australian Capital Territory the Captain Point as the site for the Royal Australian Naval College and the naval port of. In 1915, the area was officially part of a territory of his state.

The sunk in November 1940 HMS Jervis Bay was named after the bay. A ferry and a catamaran ferry boat of the Royal Australian Navy, which now operates as a civil HSC Condor Rapide in the English Channel, bearing the name HMAS Jervis Bay.

In the southeast of the Bay at Murray Beach, Australia's first nuclear power plant was planned Jervis Bay nuclear power plant. This construction project was abandoned in 1971.

In 1986, living in Wreck Bay Aboriginal land rights granted by the Aboriginal Land Grant ( Jervis Bay Territory ) Act.

Tourism

The water of the bay is mostly part of the Jervis Bay Marine Park. Width of riparian areas are part of the Jervis Bay National Park and Booderee National Park.

The places along the bay are all beach resorts. The Jervis Bay is known for clear, clean water and very white beaches. The beach of Hyams Beach is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the beach with the whitest sand. Among the offered tourist attractions include rides, where the spread in the Bay dolphins and bottlenose dolphins as well as at certain times passing humpback and southern right whales Whales can be observed.