Gwawley Bay is a
bay on the
Georges River located in
New South Wales
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, Australia.
Gwawley Creek runs into the bay.
History
The
Dharawal
The Dharawal people, also spelt Tharawal and other variants, are an Aboriginal Australian people, identified by the Dharawal language. Traditionally, they lived as hunter–fisher–gatherers in family groups or clans with ties of kinship, ...
Aboriginal people inhabited the area along the foreshore of Gwawley Bay.
Thomas Holt built Sutherland House on the foreshore of Gwawley Bay in 1868.
The Sydney suburb of
Sylvania Waters surrounds Gwawley Bay, with much of the waterfront areas of Sylvania Waters reclaimed from Gwawley Bay.
References
Bays of New South Wales
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