Seven Mile Beach is a long beach with strong historical reference just south of
Gerringong
Gerringong () is a town located about ten minutes drive south of Kiama, and about twenty minutes north of Nowra in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia in the Municipality of Kiama. At the , Gerringong had a population of 3,966. O ...
in the
Shoalhaven
The City of Shoalhaven is a local government area in the south-eastern coastal region of New South Wales, Australia. The area is about south of Sydney. The Princes Highway passes through the area, and the South Coast railway line traverses ...
area of
New South Wales
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Australia.
History
In 1933 Seven Mile Beach was used by
Sir Charles Kingsford Smith as the runway for the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand.
Flora
The area contains a unique
littoral
The littoral zone or nearshore is the part of a sea, lake, or river that is close to the shore. In coastal ecology, the littoral zone includes the intertidal zone extending from the high water mark (which is rarely inundated), to coastal a ...
rainforest with several rainforest plants at their southernmost limit of distribution,
as well as a beach/dune/wetland ecosystem and has been used for studying sand dunes and their vegetation. Surrounding the beach are spinifex,
coast wattle,
tea-tree,
coast banksia,
she-oaks,
saw banksia,
southern mahogany or bangalay, and
burrawangs.
Sydney Morning Herald Traveller
'. Retrieved on 2009-09-10 It also has a little river/lake.
Fauna
Its bird population includes honeyeaters, currawongs, crimson rosellas, thornbills, kookaburras, ravens, grey fantails, eastern whipbirds and white-throated treecreepoers, and even white-breasted sea eagles.
Gallery
File:Seven Mile Beach late afternoon.JPG, Seven Mile Beach at sunset
File:Sand on Seven Mile Beach NSW Australia.jpg, Sand and shells on Seven Mile Beach
See also
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Seven Mile Beach National Park
References
{{Beaches of New South Wales
Beaches of New South Wales