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Port Hacking, New South Wales
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Port Hacking is a small suburb in southern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Port Hacking is located 26km south of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the Sutherland Shire. The suburb sits on the north shore of the Port Hacking estuary.
Port Hacking is surrounded by the suburbs of Caringbah, Lilli Pilli and Dolans Bay. The villages of Maianbar and Bundeena are located on the opposite bank of Port Hacking.
Port Hacking was named after Henry Hacking (1750-1831), a quartermaster on Governor Phillip’s HMS Sirius, part of the First Fleet. Hacking became a skilled, adventurous bushman, who led many hunting expeditions to supplement meat rations for Australia’s first settlers. He was amongst the party that found the lost government cattle at Cowpastures in 1795.
He discovered the Port Hacking River during one of his hunts and later was named after him by Matthew Flinders and George Bass when they explored there in late March, early April 1796. The northern headland, located at Cronulla is called Bass and Flinders Point.
Thomas Holt (1811-88) owned most of the land that stretched from Sutherland to Cronulla, including land here. In 1840, parish maps also showed that 20 acres of land on this point were owned by Francis Mitchell. In 1858 Mary and Andrew Webster paid 108 pounds and 15 shillings plus a yearly peppercorn quit rent for their land in this area. The Websters sold their land to Dominick Dolan in 1863.
- The Book of Sydney Suburbs, Compiled by Frances Pollen, Angus & Robertson Publishers, 1990, Published in Australia ISBN 0-207-14495-8
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| Suburbs and localities within the Sutherland Shire | Southern Sydney | Sydney |
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Alfords Point | Audley | Bangor | Barden Ridge | Bonnet Bay | Bundeena | Burraneer | Caravan Head | Caringbah | Como | Como West | Cronulla | Dolans Bay | Engadine | Grays Point | Gundamaian | Gymea | Gymea Bay | Heathcote | Illawong | Jannali | Kangaroo Point | Kareela | Kirrawee | Kurnell | Lilli Pilli | Loftus | Lucas Heights | Maianbar | Menai | Miranda | North Engadine | Oyster Bay | Port Hacking | Sandy Point | Sutherland | Sylvania | Sylvania Heights | Sylvania Waters | Taren Point | Warumbul | Waterfall | Woolooware | Woronora | Woronora Heights | Yarrawarrah | Yowie Bay |
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