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unusual facts about MSA ''Bermagui''



1880 in Australia

10 October - Geologist Lamont Young and four others disappear on a boat trip north from Bermagui, New South Wales.

Acacia falcata

The range is from Queensland south through eastern New South Wales to Bermagui on the south coast.

Bermagui

MSA Bermagui, a non-commissioned auxiliary minesweeper operated by the Royal Australian Navy during the 1990s

HMAS Bermagui, a commissioned auxiliary minesweeper operated by the Royal Australian Navy during World War II

Bermagui, New South Wales

In 1880, a geologist, Lamont Young, and four others disappeared while on a boat trip from Bermagui.

Zane Grey, the well-known big-game fisherman of the 1930s and author of Westerns, wrote of his experiences there.

Eucalyptus paniculata

The natural range of distribution is high rainfall coastal areas from Bermagui to Bulahdelah.

Lamont Young

A 1910 article, "Bermagui - In a Strange Sunset", by Henry Lawson published in The Bulletin, describes a steamer journey from Bermagui to Sydney.

Mount Gulaga

Access to the park is approximately 10 kilometres north of Bermagui.

Mystery Bay, New South Wales

The boat had carried Lamont Young, a government geologist inspecting new goldfields on behalf the New South Wales Mines Department together with his assistant Max Schneider, and boat owner Thomas Towers and two others, from nearby Bermagui.

Rangle River

The original story was written by Zane Grey while at Bermagui during his 1935 fishing tour of Australia, a period which also produced the film White Death (1936).

Sapphire Coast

The Sapphire Coast is the marketing/ tourist name for the Bega Valley Shire region in South East, New South Wales, Australia and stretches from Bermagui in the North to the Victorian border in the South.

Umbarra

Umbarra, or King Merriman (died 1904) was an Aboriginal elder of the Djirringanj/Yuin people of the Bermagui area on the South Coast of New South Wales.


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