Abstract
Within the traditional lands of the Dharawal people, the headlands, beaches and sandy dunes of Gunnamatta / Cronulla are long recognised as important regional environmental, social and economic assets. With early settlers holding large tracts of land, once connected to Sutherland by a steam train from 1911, the seaside holiday village of Cronulla was quickly subdivided and became a permanent town, with increasingly expensive infrastructure built along the foreshore. The sandy beach and dunes of North Cronulla, where the main settlement was established, has a well-documented history of being impacted by coastal erosion events over the past 100 years. Modification of the foreshore started around 1919, using dune sand to infill the low-lying swamp in the hind-dune, creating more ‘useable’ land. The recommendations and forward plan to prolong the life of the Prince Street Seabee seawall will be the subject of this presentation.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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