Seven Mile Beach (New South Wales)

Seven Mile Beach
Patrolled beach

View of Seven Mile Beach, looking south from Gerroa
Seven Mile Beach
Location within New South Wales
Location Gerroa and Shoalhaven Heads, New South Wales, Australia
Coordinates 34°46′21″S 150°48′48″E / 34.7725°S 150.8133°E / -34.7725; 150.8133Coordinates: 34°46′21″S 150°48′48″E / 34.7725°S 150.8133°E / -34.7725; 150.8133
Beach length 12.5 km (7.8 mi)
Beach number NSW 400
Hazard rating 7/10 (highly hazardous)
Patrolled by Shoalhaven Heads Surf Life Saving Club

Seven Mile Beach is a long beach with strong historical reference just south of Gerringong in the Shoalhaven area of New South Wales, Australia.

In 1933 Seven Mile Beach was used by Sir Charles Kingsford Smith as the runway for the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand. It also has a little river/lake.

The area contains a unique littoral rainforest with several rainforest plants at their southern most 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, bangalay, saw banksia, southern mahogany and burrawangs.[2]

Its 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]

Seven Mile Beach at sunset
Sand and shells on Seven Mile Beach NSW Australia

See also

References

  1. ↑
    • Floyd, A.G., Rainforest Trees of Mainland South-eastern Australia, Inkata Press 1989, ISBN 0-909605-57-2
  2. 1 2 Sydney Morning Herald Traveller. Retrieved on 2009-09-10


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