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Waratah Park
Waratah Park is a heritage-listed former Aboriginal land and fauna sanctuary and now Aboriginal title claim at 13 Namba Road, Duffys Forest in the Northern Beaches Council local government area of New South Wales, Australia. It is also known for serving as the fictional Waratah National Park, the filming location for the Australian television series '' Skippy the Bush Kangaroo'' (produced from 1967 to 1969), when the area was still undeveloped Crown land. After the series ended, the Crown land remained mostly undeveloped, with the government granting management of the area to a series of operators until August 2014, when the government passed full ownership of the land to the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 27 February 2015. History Aboriginal land Waratah Park is sited adjacent to Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park in which some Indigenous sites have been dated as older than 7,400 years.NHL brochure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duffys Forest, New South Wales
Duffys Forest is a suburb of northern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Duffys Forest is 28 kilometres north of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of Northern Beaches Council. Duffys Forest is considered to be part of the Northern Beaches region and the Forest District. History Duffys Forest is named after Patrick Duffy, who received a land grant there in 1857. He became a timber cutter and cleared a road through the bush to Cowan Creek, where he built a stone wharf for transporting timber. The wharf is still known as Duffys Wharf and the road is Duffys Track. Heritage listings Duffys Forest has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: * 13 Namba Road: Waratah Park Population In the 2016 Census, there were 474 people in Duffys Forest. 76.7% of people were born in Australia and 86.1% of people only spoke English at home. The most common responses for religion were No Religion 32.0%, Catholic 25.9% and Anglican 21.1%. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |