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Stockton Beach is located north of the Hunter River in New South Wales, Australia. It is 32 km (20 mi) long and stretches from Stockton, to Anna Bay. Over many years Stockton Beach has been the site of numerous shipwrecks and aircraft crashes. In World War II it was fortified against a possible attack by Imperial Japanese forces. [1]
Stockton Beach is 32 km (20 mi) long, stretching from Stockton in the south to Anna Bay at its north-eastern end. In some areas it is as much as 1 km wide and has sand dunes over 30 metres high although at the Stockton end it is at its narrowest. Four-wheel drives are permitted to drive on most areas of Stockton Beach but are excluded from the ...
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Stockton Beach, on the Tasman Sea, is 32 km (20 mi) long and stretches from Stockton, in an approximate north-easterly direction to Anna Bay in Port Stephens. In some areas it is as much as 1 km (0.6 mi) wide and has sand dunes over 30 metres (98 ft) high. Each year the dunes move north by approximately 4 m (13 ft). [6]
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It ran aground on Stockton Beach in Australia during a major storm in 1974. After its bow section was refloated, its stern remained beached and became an icon and landmark for the local area, [1] [2] [3] until the visible remains of the wreck collapsed into the sea in 2016. [4]
Pasha Bulker beaching has also drawn parallels to the 1974 beaching of MV Sygna on Stockton beach, some 8 km (5 mi) further north, and Cherry Venture, which was beached during a storm in 1973 on Teewah Beach in Queensland. [41] [42]
[1] [4] [5] The Worimi people are the traditional owners of the Port Stephens area. [6] At the 2021 Australian census the population of Fullerton Cove was 745. [7] Like Fern Bay, Fullerton Cove lies to the west of the Tasman Sea. Although the entire coastline is part of Stockton Beach there is no