Ben Buckler, New South Wales
33°53′37″S 151°17′01″E / 33.893625°S 151.283688°E Ben Buckler is an urban locality in the
North Bondi in the Waverley Council local government area.[1] It is sometimes referred to simply as "the northern headland of Bondi Bay."[2]
Ben Buckler is the location of the heritage-listed Ben Buckler Gun Battery, which was built in 1892 and subsequently buried; it was later excavated by the NSW Water Board and then reburied.[3][4] It is also the location of the heritage-listed Bondi Sewer Vent.[5]
Etymology
The first recorded use of the name was in 1831, when a land grant to Richard Hurd at North Bondi was described as being "...to a point called Ben Buckler."Waverley Council Library:[2]
- It is named after a convict, Benjamin Buckler or Ben Buckley, who lived locally with the Aboriginal people in 1810;
- A bushranger named Ben Buckley lived in a cave in the rocks at the northern end of Bondi Beach;
- Obed West (1807–1891) claimed that it was a corruption of an Aboriginal word.
Gallery
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Robert Vere Scott (c.1905) Ben Buckler, Bondi, made using a Kodak Panoram camera, exposed to look as if taken by moonlight, but actually taken in daylight. Silver gelatin print 23.3 h x 56.9 w cm. National Gallery of Australia, Purchased 2012, NGA 2012.749 -
Ben Buckler at night -
Golf course -
The Ben Buckler coastline -
Ben Buckler, from the south. The Bondi Sewer Vent can be seen behind the beach area.
References
- ISBN 0-207-14495-8.
- ^ a b c "Who was Ben Buckler?" (PDF). Waverley Council. 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 March 2014. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
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- ^ "Defence in Waverley" (PDF). Waverley Heritage Policy. Waverley Council. September 2007. p. 15. Retrieved 16 September 2017.
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