Port Macquarie

Port Macquarie
Downtown Port Macquarie
State :  Australia State : New South Wales Founded : 1821
Coordinates : 31 ° 26 ′  S , 152 ° 55 ′  E Coordinates: 31 ° 26 ′  S , 152 ° 55 ′  E Height : 5  m Area : 43.6  km²
Residents : 44,814 (2016) Population density : 1028 inhabitants per km²
Time zone : AEST (UTC + 10) Postal code : 2444 LGA : Port Macquarie-Hastings Council
Port Macquarie

Port Macquarie is a port city and a seaside resort with around 45,000 inhabitants in the Australian state of New South Wales at the mouth of the Hastings River .

history

The area of ​​the present city was first described by Europeans in 1802 by Matthew Flinders , who measured the coast of Australia. In 1818, John Oxley reached the coast when he followed the Hastings River inland, recommended it for settlement and named the area Port Macquarie after the then Governor of New South Wales, Lachlan Macquarie .

Port Macquarie was founded in 1821 as the first settlement on the north coast. It was populated with prisoners found guilty of a crime in the Sydney colony. These prisoners had to build the port facility and fell cedars in the hinterland .

geography

Port Macquarie is located on the Mid North Coast , the southern end of which is with Seal Rocks about 270 km north of Sydney and the northern end of which is in Coffs Harbor .

Port Macquarie is the center and administrative seat of the local administrative area of Port Macquarie-Hastings Council .

Attractions

The main attraction are the fine sandy coastal beaches. Port Macquarie is also home to a koala hospital, where koalas that have been injured in car accidents or blinded in fire are cared for and treated.

Another attraction is the Sea Acres National Park and Rainforest Center, where you can walk on a boardwalk through the rainforest. Volunteers explain the flora and fauna.

Sports

• The 12th group game of the World Snooker Championship in 1971 was played in Port Macquarie.

• Since 2006, Ironman Australia has been a long-distance triathlon (3.86 km swimming, 180.2 km cycling and 42.195 km running) here in April or May .

sons and daughters of the town

• George Lewis Becke (1855–1913), Australian writer of British origin
• Clyde Cook (1891–1984), Australian comedian and actor
• James Magnussen (* 1991), Australian swimmer
• Lachlan Morton (* 1992), Australian cyclist

Web links

Commons : Port Macquarie  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Description of the place, the surroundings and its sights

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Australian Bureau of Statistics : Port Macquarie ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved February 7, 2020.
2. ^ UBD (1994) Street Directory New South Wales: Cities and Towns