Coasters Retreat, New South Wales
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| Coasters Retreat Sydney, New South Wales |
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| Postcode: | 2108 | ||||||||||||
| Location: | 42 km (26 mi) north of Sydney CBD | ||||||||||||
| LGA: | Pittwater Council | ||||||||||||
| State District: | Pittwater | ||||||||||||
| Federal Division: | Mackellar | ||||||||||||
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Coasters Retreat is a locality in northern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Coasters Retreat is located 42 kilometres north of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Pittwater Council.
[edit] Location
Coasters Retreat is located in Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, on the western shores of Pittwater looking northward to the Basin. Coasters is made up of fifty holiday houses set in the bush and beside the beach. Two of them date from settlement in the 1920s. Coasters Retreat has no road or land access and is entirely dependent on transport via the Palm Beach Ferry Service. A rural fire brigade building stands on the foreshore, a reminder of sensitivity of the area which has been ravaged in 1967 and 1994 by fires.
[edit] History
In 1770 Captain Cook passed by the region, naming Broken Bay for its rugged terrain. The district was later explored in 1788 and 1789 by Governor Arthur Phillip and Captain John Hunter (Later Governor of NSW). In a depiction of Pittwater by Captain John Hunter in 1789, a fleet of Aboriginal canoes is visible off Soldiers Point in Coasters Retreat. The presence of the Aborigines can still be felt in the surrounding national park in rock carvings (A dolphin) and a nearby hand painting. By 1789, the presence of the visitors became permanent as from the charts of these two explorers Pittwater was named for the British Prime Minister William Pitt.
Coasters was possible scene of a conflict between an aborigional leader named Grewin and the ship "William and Mary" in 1806. In 1842 Coasters Retreat was first granted to a former soldier in the NSW Army Corps by Governor Gipps, from whence came the name "Soldiers Point" for the western extremity of the south headland. It was during this decade that an "Old House" was constructed at Coasters. "The Basin" on the north side of Coasters Retreat was properly settled as a farm in 1881, when a weather board farm house was built there, another old farm house at the neighbouring beach of Currawong dates from 1916. The area became enclosed by national park following the establishment of the Ku-Ring-Gai National Park in 1896 and was considered to be near a potential site of a national capital leading up to Federation. The small settlement remained as a group of farms until 1922 when the area began to be subdivided into fifty allotments. The area underwent subtle growth during the twentieth century with the construction of two wharves in 1914 (Bonnie Doon) and 1944 (Bennetts).
The oldest house, Negunya, was built by the Russell family in 1922, and the second oldest house, built by the Alldrit Family in 1926, following a 1921 Subdivision of the original land grant. In 1944 two more subdivisions allowed a few more homes to be built. After connecting to the electricity supply in 1967, the village then experienced further growth, reaching its limits in the 1990s. The most recent development has been the construction of a rural fire brigade building following a bushfire in 1994.
[edit] External links
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