Stanwell Park, New South Wales
Stanwell Park is a small coastal town in the north of the county Wollongong City the Illawarra region in Australia. It is eingepfärcht between the escarpment of the Illawarra Escarpment and the Tasman Sea of the Pacific Ocean. From the metropolis of Sydney, it only disconnects the Royal National Park and is thus surrounded by pure nature. Stanwell Park has about 1400 inhabitants.
History
Stanwell Park was the name of a farm in the country, the 1824 Matthew John Gibbons was granted. To him, the majority of the area of Little Bulli has been transferred, which included present-day Stanwell Park and the neighboring Coalcliff. The entire northern part of the Illawarra was known as Aboriginenamen Bulli which translates as increase means the only thing a close in the coastal area and the indentations of the northern Illawarra remains to be done. Bulli is still the name of a place Illawarra south of Stanwell Park.
The area was originally inhabited by the Wadi Wadi Aboriginalgruppe. The first time by Europeans, it was traversed in an adventurous journey of three shipwrecked hundreds of miles along the coast, which were then saved in Wattamolla further north in today's Royal National Park. Two of the companions did not succeed in the Coal Cliffs at today's Sea Cliff Bridge to overcome. They were apparently murdered, their remains were found by the researcher George Bass, who reported the first time about the rich, exposed in the cliffs coal seam.
As stewards for his farm in Stanwell Park Mr Gibbons asked the ex-convicts John paid a. However, this was using the remote valley hideaway, a base point for his gang of outlaws. He took the name Woloo Jack. His gang terrorized the area of Bargo to Liverpool until the entire band in 1829 ended on the gallows.
This area, well suited due to their topography and wind conditions for gliding, was in the 1890 Lives and experimental grounds by Lawrence Hargrave, who took off there first Australian to 1894 he developed a box kite. On the Bald Hill today is a road named after him, which leads to a memorial to the inventor.
Activities
Stanwell Park offers a beautiful beach and one of the oldest rescue sports clubs in the world, the Helensburgh - Stanwell Park Surf Life Saving Club, founded in 1908. Latter secures the beach guard on weekends and holidays, and carries out numerous activities such as Nippers and winter swimming.
Access
The place is reachable by CityRail train from Sydney and Wollongong from. By road traveling from the north the steep slopes of Bald Hill down or reaches Stanwell Park from the south over the Sea Cliff Bridge along the coast.
References
- Michael Adams: "Little Bulli: The Pioneering of Stanwell Park and Northern Illawarra Till the 1860s ," Cultural Exchange International Pty.. Ltd. (2005), ISBN 0-9758187-1-6.