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Shelly Beach, situated next to Lighthouse Beach. The beach was created in the 1890s when sand pushed up against the newly constructed training walls of the Richmond River, causing Shaws Bay to fill with sand and forming the beach between the northern training wall and Ballina Head. It was given the name of "Tomki Beach" after a 1907 shipwreck.
Richmond is a historic town northwest of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Richmond is in the local government area of the City of Hawkesbury and is part of the Sydney metropolitan area. It is located 19 metres above sea level on the alluvial Hawkesbury River flats, at the foot of the Blue Mountains.
Richmond County is one of the 141 cadastral divisions of New South Wales. It lies south of the Richmond River and includes South Casino . Richmond County was named in honour of Charles Gordon Lennox , Fifth Duke of Richmond (1791- 1860).
Landsat 7 false-color image of the Sydney area and surrounding suburbs. The image demonstrates how the built-up areas (pink) have been constrained by the Royal National Park to the south, the Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park to the north, and the Blue Mountains National Park to the west (a boundary that generally follows a geological feature called the Lapstone Monocline, dividing the Blue ...
Main article: List of beaches The Gold Coast consists of 70 kilometres (43 mi) of coastline with some of the most popular surf breaks. Beaches in Australia are in abundance due to the fact that Australia is entirely surrounded by the ocean. Beaches are popular destinations among the country's local population, and travellers alike, as over 85% of Australians live on the coast and most of ...
Richmond River 1967 Richmond River 1971 Richmond River 2009 The Richmond River entrance from the Southern Breakwater, April 2019.. The river rises at the northern end of the Richmond Range, near its junction with the McPherson Range, on the Queensland/ New South Wales border, west of Mount Lindesay, and flows generally south east and north east, joined by twelve tributaries, including the ...
Evans Head is a town in Richmond Valley Council of the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia. At the 2016 census , Evans Head had a population of 2,843 people. [ 1 ] It is 726 kilometres north of Sydney , and 11 kilometres east off the Pacific Highway from Woodburn .
North Richmond is a town in the state of New South Wales, Australia. [2] North Richmond is located 67 kilometres (42 mi) north-west of the Sydney in the local government area of the City of Hawkesbury. It is separated from the town of Richmond to its south-east by pasture land and the Hawkesbury River.