Seven Mile Beach is a long beach with strong historical reference just south of Gerringong in the Shoalhaven area of New South Wales, Australia.
Seven Mile Beach | |
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Beach | |
 View of Seven Mile Beach, looking south from Gerroa | |
  Seven Mile Beach | |
| Coordinates: 34°46′21″S 150°48′48″E / 34.7725°S 150.8133°E | |
| Location | Gerroa and Shoalhaven Heads, New South Wales, Australia |
| Dimensions | |
| • Length | 12.5 km (7.8 mi) |
| Patrolled by | Shoalhaven Heads Surf Life Saving Club |
| Hazard rating | 7/10 (highly hazardous) |
History
editIn 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
editThe area contains a unique littoral rainforest with several rainforest plants at their southernmost limit of distribution,[1] 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.[2] It also has a little river/lake.
Fauna
editIts bird population includes honeyeaters, currawongs, crimson rosellas, thornbills, kookaburras, ravens, grey fantails, eastern whipbirds and white-throated treecreepoers, and even white-breasted sea eagles.[2]
Gallery
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Seven Mile Beach at sunset -
Sand and shells on Seven Mile Beach
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Floyd, A. G. (1989). Rainforest Trees of Mainland South-eastern Australia. Melbourne: Inkata Press. ISBN 0-909605-57-2.
- ^ a b Sydney Morning Herald Traveller. Retrieved on 2009-09-10