The Burraneer Bay is a

bay A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay. A large bay is usually called a Gulf (geography), gulf, sea, sound (geography), sound, or bight (geogra ...

on the lower estuarine

Hacking River The Hacking River is a perennial stream, watercourse that is located in the Southern Sydney region of New South Wales in Australia. For thousands of years traditional owners called the river Deeban, however the colonial settlers renamed the ri ...

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, in the state of

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Location and features

With a

catchment A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean. A basin is separated from adjacent basins by a perimeter, the ...

that drains many of the most southern suburbs of the

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, Burraneer Bay is located near where the Hacking River and Port Hacking estuary meet

Gunnamatta Bay The Gunnamatta Bay is a small bay in southern Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Gunnamatta Bay is located off the Port Hacking estuary, in the Sutherland Shire. The foreshore is a natural boundary for the suburbs of Cronulla to the east, Woo ...

and empty into

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. The bay's catchment area is bound by Port Hacking to the south, Gunnamatta Bay sub-catchment to the east, Dolans Bay sub-catchment to the west and the

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sub-catchment to the north. The bay is surrounded by the

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s of to the north and east, to the northwest and west, and and to the southwest, at the bay's junction with the estuary. A

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is located on the north western side of Burraneer Bay. Notable residents that have lived in the area surrounding Burraneer Bay include cricket players

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and

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. ''Burraneer'' is an Aboriginal word meaning "point of the bay". The bay was named by surveyor Robert Dixon in 1827, who chose many Aboriginal names for many of the bays in the area.

References

Bays of New South Wales Marinas in Australia {{Sydney-geo-stub