Broken Bay
Coordinates: 33 ° 32 ′ S , 151 ° 15 ′ E
The Broken Bay is a bay of the Pacific Ocean about 50 kilometers north of Sydney on the coast of New South Wales , Australia . It is the first major bay north of Port Jackson , Sydney's natural harbor. Much of the south coast of Broken Bay is in Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park .
geography
The opening of Broken Bay to the sea lies between Box Head in the north and Barrenjoey Head in the south. The Barrenjoey lighthouse was built in 1881 to guide ships away from the prominent headland. Overall, the bay consists of three arms, the largest is the Hawkesbury River in the west, Pittwater in the south and Brisbane Water in the north . These three arms are flooded rivers that were created at a time when the sea level was significantly lower than it is today.
The Hawkesbury River, after the confluence of the Grose and Nepean Rivers , comes from the area of the Blue Mountains west of Sydney.
Pittwater stretches six kilometers south of Broken Bay and thus touches the northernmost foothills of the Sydney metropolitan area. Pittwater is known for its calm waters and a popular place for sailing. West Head, west of Barrenjoey, marks the boundary between Pittwater and the Hawkesbury Rivers.
Brisbane Water is the northern arm of Broken Bay. The towns of Gosford and Woy Woy are on its banks .
Lion Island , named for its profile, which from a certain angle resembles the Sphinx of Giza , is centrally located in the opening of the bay to the Pacific. The Lion Island Nature Reserve spans the entire island and is home to a colony of little penguins .
discovery
James Cook noted in his records that he had sighted Broken Land north of Port Jackson just before sunset on May 7th, 1770 and named it Broken Bay. Still, there is controversy over whether what is now known as Broken Bay was actually described by Cook back then.
"The colonists have called this place Broken Bay, but it is not what was so named by Captain Cook"
"The colonists called this place Broken Bay, but it wasn't what Captain Cook called it"
Ray Parkin claims in his book HM Bark Endeavor that Cook passed today's Broken Bay unnoticed at night, and that he was actually referring to the area around the Narrabeen lagoon .
Matthew Flinders also located Cook's Broken Bay at 33 ° 42 'south near the Narrabeen Lagoon.
However, the Governor Arthur Phillip was the first European to explore what is now Broken Bay on March 2, 1788 in a longboat from the Sirius .
Role during the attack on Sydney Harbor
On November 28, 2005, documentary filmmaker Damien Lay claimed that the wreckage of the M-24 , a Japanese submarine that was involved in the 1942 attack on Sydney's harbor and immediately disappeared, was buried in the sand just east of Lion Island lie. Lay stated that the copper cables found there are the same as those from comparable boats. A few weeks later, however, the Minister of Planning, Frank Sartor , stated that the sonar scans carried out by the New South Wales Heritage Office had found no trace of a sunken submarine.
In fact, the M-24 was found eight miles south of Broken Bay, about three miles from Bungan Head , which confirmed the hypothesis that the submarine did not want to draw attention to the mother ship to the south and was therefore heading north, towards the Broken Bay, distant.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b A Voyage to Terra Australia, Vol Two, page 2 (July 22, 1802)
- ^ Ray Parkin [1997]: HM Endeavor , 2nd edition. Edition, The Miegunyah Press, Carlton, Victoria 2003, ISBN 0522850936 , p. 205.
- ^ The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay with an account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson ect etc London 1789, p. 9
- ↑ Steve Meacham: Down to the wire ... solving a 60-year mystery . In: The Sydney Morning Herald: smh.com.au . Fairfax Digital. November 29, 2005. Retrieved October 23, 2008.
- ^ Investigation fails to find midget sub . In: ABC News Online . Australian Broadcasting Corporation. December 19, 2007. Archived from the original on April 20, 2008. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 23, 2008.
- ↑ Nine Network : 60 Minutes - Found it , Liam Bartlett (reporter), Stephen Taylor and Julia Timms (producers), aired November 26, 2006.
