Seven Mile Beach (New South Wales)
Seven Mile Beach | |
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Patrolled beach | |
View of Seven Mile Beach, looking south from Gerroa | |
Seven Mile Beach Location within New South Wales | |
Location | Gerroa and Shoalhaven Heads, New South Wales, Australia |
Coordinates | 34°46′21″S 150°48′48″E / 34.7725°S 150.8133°ECoordinates: 34°46′21″S 150°48′48″E / 34.7725°S 150.8133°E |
Beach length | 12.5 km (7.8 mi) |
Beach number | NSW 400 |
Hazard rating | 7/10 (highly hazardous) |
Patrolled by | Shoalhaven Heads Surf Life Saving Club |
Seven Mile Beach is a long beach with strong historical reference just south of Gerringong in the Shoalhaven area of New South Wales, Australia.
History
In 1933 Seven Mile Beach was used by Sir Charles Kingsford Smith as the runway for the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand.
Flora
The area contains a unique littoral rainforest with several rainforest plants at their southern most limit of distribution,[1] as well as a beach/dune/wetland ecosystem and has been used for studying sand dunes and their vegetation. Surrounding the beach are spinifex, coast wattle, tea-tree, coast banksia, she-oaks, saw banksia, southern mahogany or bangalay, and burrawangs.[2] It also has a little river/lake.
Fauna
Its bird population includes honeyeaters, currawongs, crimson rosellas, thornbills, kookaburras, ravens, grey fantails, eastern whipbirds and white-throated treecreepoers, and even white-breasted sea eagles.[2]
Gallery
- Seven Mile Beach at sunset
- Sand and shells on Seven Mile Beach NSW Australia
See also
References
- ↑
- Floyd, A.G., Rainforest Trees of Mainland South-eastern Australia, Inkata Press 1989, ISBN 0-909605-57-2
- 1 2 Sydney Morning Herald Traveller. Retrieved on 2009-09-10