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The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

Berowra Waters

Suburb

Far northern locality on the shores of Berowra Creek. With its restaurants, marina, car ferry, scenic walks and salt water pool, it is a popular tourist destination.

-33.609400354127, 151.12397117876

Name
Alternate
Dust Hole Bay
Property
Administered by
Hornsby Shire Council
Part of
Hornsby Shire
Type
Suburb

Berowra Waters

CC BY-SA 2.0
by
Joan Rowland
,
2008

Guringai country until the Europeans arrived, Berowra Waters was settled in the 1820s by timber-getters, fishermen and lime burners who mined the Aboriginal middens for lime. In the twentieth century, tourists hired boats at Rex Jones's boatshed and walked in the surrounding bush.

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