Seven Mile Beach is a long beach with strong historical reference just south of Gerringong in the Shoalhaven area of New South Wales, Australia.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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Seven Mile Beach | |
Coordinates: 34.7725°S 150.8133°E / -34.7725; 150.8133 | |
Location | Gerroa and Shoalhaven Heads, New South Wales, Australia |
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• Length | 12.5 km (7.8 mi) |
Patrolled by | Shoalhaven Heads Surf Life Saving Club |
Hazard rating | 7/10 (highly hazardous) |
← Walkers Comorong Island → |
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.
The 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.
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]
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