NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Fairlight, New South Wales

Fairlight is a suburb of northern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Fairlight is located 13 kilometres north-east of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of Manly Council and is part of the Northern Beaches region. Map of Local Government Areas in New South Wales Types of LGAs in New South Wales The Local Government Areas of New South Wales, Australia have been subject to periodic bouts of restructuring and rationalisation by the State Government, involving voluntary and involuntary amalgamation of areas. ... Manly Council is a Local Government Area on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. ... State Electoral District is a term used to refer to a voting area within Australian states. ... Manly is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. ... The Australian House of Representatives is elected from 150 single-member districts called Divisions. ... The Division of Warringah is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. ... This is a complete listing of the suburbs and localities in the greater Sydney area in alphabetical order. ... Location of Manly Vale Manly Vale is a suburb located in Warringah Shire on Sydneys Northern Beaches. ... Location of Manly Vale Manly Vale is a suburb located in Warringah Shire on Sydneys Northern Beaches. ... A beach near Queenscliff Queenscliff is a beachside suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. ... Balgowlah, a suburb of Sydney, Australia, is located in the Northern Beaches area of the city. ... Manly is a suburb in Local Government Area of Manly Council on Northern Beaches of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. ... Balgowlah Heights is a suburb of Sydney, Australia, and generally considered a wealthy Northern Beaches suburb. ... Manly is a suburb in Local Government Area of Manly Council on Northern Beaches of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. ... â€œSuburbiaâ€ redirects here. ... This article is about the metropolitan area in Australia. ... â€œNSWâ€ redirects here. ... A kilometre (American spelling: kilometer) (symbol: km) is a unit of length equal to 1000 metres (from the Greek words khilia = thousand and metro = count/measure). ... A view of the Sydney CBD from Farm Cove Map of the CBD The central business district (CBD) of Sydney, the capital of New South Wales, Australia, extends southwards for about 2 km from Sydney Cove, the point of first European settlement. ... Local Government Area (abbreviated LGA) is a term used in Australia (and especially by the Australian Bureau of Statistics) to refer to areas controlled by each individual Local Government. ... Manly Council is a Local Government Area on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. ... Categories: Australia-related stubs ...

Fairlight lies between Balgowlah and Manly on both sides of Sydney Road, which is one of the gateways into the Northern Beaches. It reaches north past Balgowlah Road and the western boundary is Hill Street. Balgowlah, a suburb of Sydney, Australia, is located in the Northern Beaches area of the city. ... Manly is a suburb in Local Government Area of Manly Council on Northern Beaches of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. ...

Landmarks

Fairlight's most notable attraction is Fairlight Beach. Fairlight Beach is located on the Manly Scenic Pathway on Sydney Harbour, which can be followed for some kilometres to the Spit Bridge. Fairlight Beach experiences light harbour swells and southerly winds but is unsurfable, though swells were recorded up to 2m high after Hurricane Larry. It is not a surfing beach, as the shore is rocky and the break unpredictable. Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge located on Port Jackson Port Jackson is the natural harbour of Sydney, Australia, also known as Sydney Harbour and is the largest natural harbour in the world. ... Spit Bridge by Night, from Ellerys Punt Reserve The Spit Bridge is a bascule bridge that carries Spit Road over Middle Harbour in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, at a point called The Spit, 10 km north-east of the CBD. It connects the suburbs of Mosman, on the... The name Larry has been used to name one tropical cyclone in the Atlantic Ocean and at least one in the southern hemisphere. ...

The beach is notable for the shell grit that makes up most of the sand (largely missing from the beaches on either side and for a small rock pool that usually has 1.8 metres of water in it. At high tide, waves break over the walls and refresh the pool. Shell grit is grit (minute rough granules, as of sand or stone[1]) from shells. ...

Sport and Recreation

Fairlight Beach is a swimming and snorkelling spot for visitors and tourists alike and is visited by hundreds of people per day during the Christmas-New Year holiday. Fairlight Beach is also a vantage point to view harbour yacht races. Fairlight is home to the Manly Golf Club and Golf Course. Various shops and cafes are clusted in a small shopping centre in Sydney Road.

History

Fairlight takes its name from a house built by Henry Gilbert Smith (1802-1886) on land he bought in 1853 from John Parker who had received a land grant in 1837. Fairlight House was named after Fairlight, East Sussex, a historic village in Hastings, on the south coast of England. Fairlight is a village in East Sussex, England within Rother district, three miles to the east of Hastings. ... For other uses, see Hastings (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ...

Fairlight was originally only the area near the beach where Fairlight House once stood, and the suburb at the top of the hill was called Red Hill, due to the red gravel surface that Sydney Road had before World War II (it has long since been concreted). Fairlight was adopted because Red Hill is a common name that is used in many other places.

Shortly after World War II, a submarine moored at Manly was carried around to Fairlight by a storm, and wrecked off the beach.^{[citation needed]} Most of the parts were salvaged by the 1960s. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki TÅjÅ Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... For other uses, see Submarine (disambiguation). ...

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Coordinates: 33°47′46″S 151°16′37″E / -33.796, 151.277 Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...

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