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Barrenjoey is a locality in the suburb of Palm Beach, at the most northern tip of

Pittwater Pittwater is a semi-mature tide dominated drowned valley estuary, located about north of the Sydney central business district, New South Wales, Australia; being one of the bodies of water that separate greater Metropolitan Sydney from the Ce ...

. The

headland A headland, also known as a head, is a coastal landform, a point of land usually high and often with a sheer drop, that extends into a body of water. It is a type of promontory. A headland of considerable size often is called a cape.Whittow, John ...

is made up primarily of sandstones of the

Newport Formation The Newport Formation is a geologic formation outcropping in the Sydney Basin in eastern Australia. This stratum is up to 49 metres thick. Formed in the mid-Triassic, it is part of the Narrabeen Group of sedimentary rocks. See also * Sydn ...

, the top third is a cap of

Hawkesbury sandstone Sydney sandstone is the common name for Sydney Basin Hawkesbury Sandstone, one variety of which is historically known as Yellowblock, and also as "yellow gold" a sedimentary rock named after the Hawkesbury River north of Sydney, where this ...

. Around 10,000 years ago the headland was cut off from the mainland due to the rising sea level; subsequent buildup of a sand spit or

tombolo A tombolo is a sandy or shingle isthmus. A tombolo, from the Italian ', meaning 'pillow' or 'cushion', and sometimes translated incorrectly as ''ayre'' (an ayre is a shingle beach of any kind), is a deposition landform by which an island become ...

reconnected the island to the mainland (a '

tied island Tied islands, or land-tied islands as they are often known, are landforms consisting of an island that is connected to mainland or another island only by a tombolo: a spit of beach materials connected to land at both ends. St Ninian's Isle in ...

'). It is the location of the

Barrenjoey Head Lighthouse The Barrenjoey Head Lighthouse is a heritage-listed lighthouse at Barrenjoey Headland, Palm Beach, Northern Beaches Council, New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by James Barnet, the New South Wales Colonial Architect and built by Isaa ...

, a lighthouse that was first lit in 1881. In 1995 Barrenjoey was gazetted into

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 ...

History

On 2 March 1788, Arthur Phillip named the headland "Barrenjuee" (meaning little kangaroo or wallaby). The name changed its spelling over time, Barrenjoey now being the accepted name since 1966. Since the 1980s it has been featured heavily in the

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Home and Away ''Home and Away'' (often abbreviated as ''H&A'') is an Australian television soap opera. It was created by Alan Bateman and commenced broadcast on the Seven Network on 17 January 1988. Bateman came up with the concept of the show during a trip ...

'', during both the

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and the show itself.

Ecological communities

Mapping by the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage in 2013 shows Barrenjoey headland containing tiny pockets of ''Coastal escarpment littoral rainforest'', a particular subgroup of the ''Littoral Rainforest'' community, which is an endangered ecological community,NSW Scientific Committee. (2011
Littoral Rainforest in the NSW North Coast, Sydney Basin and South East Corner Bioregions - Determination to make a minor amendment to Part 3 of Schedule 1 of the Threatened Species Conservation Act
/ref> together with the communities: ''Coastal Headland Clay Heath'', ''Coastal Sand Tea-tree-Banksia Scrub'' (on the coastal fore-dune), ''Central Coast Escarpment Moist Forest'', and ''Coastal Sandstone Foreshores Forest'' (on sandstone soils derived from either Hawkesbury or Narrabeen geology, and exposed to salt winds).NSW Office of Environment and Heritage, (2013) The Native Vegetation of the Sydney Metropolitan Area, Version 2.0 - VIS_ID 3817

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