Pittwater

Coordinates: 33 ° 37 ′ 9 ″  S , 151 ° 18 ′ 23 ″  E

Pittwater​

New South Wales

Pittwater as viewed from Ku-ring-gai-Chase National Park

Aerial view of Sydney's north coast with Pittwater and Scotland Island (top left)

Pittwater is a ria that extends south of Broken Bay parallel to the coast in New South Wales , Australia and is located in Ku-ring-gai-Chase National Park .

history

Pittwater is a flooded river that is fed by seawater from the Pacific Ocean , the Hawkesbury River, and minor tributaries. The Guringai , an Aboriginal tribe , lived on the coastlines of Pittwater for millennia until British colonization.

As a navigable waterway, it was discovered in 1788 by the HMS Sirius , the flagship of the First Fleet , and Pitt Water was named after British Prime Minister William Pitt . The first cargo shipments on these waters were carried out by the cargo ship Francis , which transported goods for the settlers and farmers from Sydney in the period from 1793 to 1800. From 1803 onwards, a fleet of ships owned by people living in Coasters Bay began organizing shipments between Pittwater, Cowan Creek, and Berowra Water . These ships usually traveled in convoy because they wanted to avoid the risk of being attacked by pirates. The cargo ships that sailed these routes were usually built on Scotland Island , were not seaworthy and could therefore only sail as far as Broken Bay . Customs controlled Pittwater between 1843 and 1900, and a government-built lighthouse at Barrenjoey was built in 1881.

Transport shipping on Pittwater came to an end when a road and railroad was built between 1850 and 1890, particularly when the railroad bridge spanned the waterway in 1899. The last cargo ship built in the area was built and launched in Blackwall , a suburb of Sydney, in 1912; it carried out transports until 1914.

Naming

After Pittwater were the Pittwater Council , the constituency of Pittwater and the Pittwater High School named.

Web links

Commons : Pittwater  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Northern Beaches, Sydney, Australia on holidayoz.com.au

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pittwater History
2. ^ ^{A b c} Mary Clark: Ships, Shores and Trading Ports . Waterways Authority of NSW, August 2001, ISBN 0731388984 , pp. 107-108.
3. ^ Official website of the Pittwater Council . Retrieved January 2, 2010
4. ↑ Official website of the Pittwater High School ( Memento of the original from February 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved January 2, 2010