Why Port Stephens?
A natural harbour, a 32 km beach and the Worimi story. Every fact sourced.
- Worimi middens
The Worimi are the earliest known inhabitants of the coastal land around Port Stephens. Shell middens along the beach, made mainly of pipi and whelk remains, are up to 12,000 years old.Source: Wikipedia
- Moving sand dunes
Stockton Beach runs 32 km from Stockton to Anna Bay. Its dunes are described as the largest continuous mobile dunes in the Southern Hemisphere.Source: Wikipedia
- Tin City
Squatters built the Tin City shacks about 11 km south-west of Anna Bay during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Eleven shacks remain, and no new ones may be built.Source: Wikipedia
- Dunes on the move
Some of the dunes are over 30 metres high, and they shift north by about 4 metres each year.Source: Wikipedia
- Shared airfield
Newcastle Airport shares its airfield with RAAF Base Williamtown.Source: Wikipedia
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