Collaroy

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Collaroy
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Collaroy from the Collaroy Plateau
State : AustraliaAustralia Australia
State : Flag of New South Wales.svg New South Wales
City : Sydney
Coordinates : 33 ° 44 ′  S , 151 ° 18 ′  E Coordinates: 33 ° 44 ′  S , 151 ° 18 ′  E
Area : 2.7  km²
Residents : 7,870 (2016)
Population density : 2915 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 2097
LGA : Warringah Council
Collaroy (Sydney)
Collaroy
Collaroy

Collaroy is a suburb in north Sydney in the state of New South Wales , Australia . It is located around 19.5 kilometers northeast of the City of Sydney . In the 2016 census, there were 7,870 inhabitants in this suburb.

history

Collaroy originally belonged to the suburb of Narrabeen . The SS Collaroy sank in this bay in 1881. It took four years until the steel paddle wheel steamer was successfully salvaged and put back into service. The suburb wasn't renamed until the early 1900s.

In 1942, Australia expected the forces of the Japanese Empire to land during World War II . The beach was equipped with barriers against landing and it was darkened at night. As a result, a New Zealand ship ran aground on the beach.

geography

Collaroy and Narrabeen population pyramid. Status 2014

Collaroy lies between Long Reef in the south and Narrabeen in the north. To the east it is on the Australian border and to the west is the Collaroy Plateau.

Beach

Collaroy Rockpool during cleaning. Usually the water surface is one meter higher.

Collaroy Beach , the beach of Collaroy, stretches one kilometer along the Australian east coast of the Tasman Sea . The beach does not have its own bay, but is directly connected to Narrabeen. Between Fisherman's Bay, which still belongs to Collaroy, and Collaroy Beach is a so-called rock pool, a swimming pool that was carved into the existing rock. The rock pool consists of a 50 × 25 meter pool and a triangular pool.

Rockpool

The beach area of ​​Collaroy and the buildings built near the coast, as well as the entire north coast of Sydney, are strongly threatened by erosion processes . The town's buildings were also damaged by storms in 1920, 1945, 1967, 1974 and 2016.

On June 6, 2016, waves up to 8 meters high hit the beach of Collaroy in a storm. In doing so, they eroded the beach line back up to 50 meters. Lake water penetrated into the streets of the village. The waves damaged the substance of seven residential buildings, facilities and the buildings of the Collaroy Surf Club and the nearby Collaroy Beach Club . People from seven houses and one block of flats had to be evacuated in the course of the storm.

Fisherman's Bay

Fisherman's Bay is the beach that is connected to Collaroy Beach behind the Rockpool, but is classified as a separate beach. Fisherman's Bay, however, is not a suburb of its own. It is 880 m long without the Collaroy Beach and connected to Long Reef by a stone plateau.

leisure

One of the numerous public grill stations in Collaroy

In front of the beach there is a small park that is used for skateboarding, playing football, picnicking and other leisure activities. The grill stations can be used free of charge. There is also a playground there .

Sports

In Collaroy and on the Collaroy Plateau there is a tennis club , a cricket club and a local swimming club that occasionally hosts “Swimming Carnevals” in the rock pool in the evenings. Collaroy Beach is very popular with surfers.

Transport links

Collaroy is located on Pittwater Road , the main coastal road, and is thus connected to all of Northern Beaches . On this road, the L88 and L90 buses run from Palm Beach via Collaroy to downtown Sydney. Collaroy does not have its own ferry port.

Personalities

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Australian Bureau of Statistics : Collaroy ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved January 26, 2020.
  2. ↑ Stranding of PS Collaroy, 1881. Investigation of features Collaroy Beach, Sydney (English), www.environment.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved March 10, 2016
  3. ↑ The war comes to Collaroy (English), on reefcarelongreef.org.au. Retrieved March 10, 2016
  4. ↑ Daylan Cameron, How may the proposed legislative amendments affect legislative amendments affect (English), at engineersautralia.org.au. Retrieved March 11, 2016
  5. ↑ Costal-Erosion (English), on warringah.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved March 10, 2016
  6. ↑ Beach washed away Sydney Morning Herald to Collaroy-Narrabeen Beach. Last accessed June 8, 2016
  7. ↑ House fallen into the sea NEWS.com.au to damage in Collaroy. Last accessed June 8, 2016
  8. ↑ Damage in Collaroy ABC News recorded the destruction in Collaroy with a drone. Last accessed June 8, 2016
  9. ↑ Northern Beaches bus route map . Retrieved March 26, 2016.