Akuna Bay is an urban place in Sydney, Australia. Akuna Bay is located north of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of

Northern Beaches Council The Northern Beaches Council is a local government area located in the Northern Beaches region of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. The council was formed on 12 May 2016 after the amalgamation of Manly, Pittwater and Warring ...

. Akuna Bay sits in the

Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park is a national park on the northern side of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia. The park is north of the Sydney central business district and generally comprises the land east of the M1 Pacific Motorway, sout ...

and takes its name from the bay on

Coal and Candle Creek Coal and Candle Creek is a creek located in Sydney, Australia. It is a tributary of Cowan Creek which flows into the Hawkesbury River. See also *Cottage Point, New South Wales Cottage Point is a suburb of northern Sydney, in the state of New ...

. It can be accessed by a marina on the bay or by Liberator General San Martin Drive.

History

Akuna was thought to be an Aboriginal word meaning ''to follow''. It actually is a mangled version of the

Dieri The Diyari (), alternatively transcribed as Dieri (), is an Indigenous Australian group of the South Australian desert originating in and around the delta of Cooper Creek to the east of Lake Eyre. Language Diyari is classified as one of the Ka ...

word ''ngaka-rna'' meaning "to flow" from South Australia. In 1972 the construction of a marina was proposed and it was completed in 1974.

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