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Day trip top Newcastle. Checking out Stockton Beach, Tin City and The Sygna Shipwreck.Location: Tin City Stockton BeachMusic: [Ambient Music] Caleb Etheridge.
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Welcome to Tin City, Stockton By Tim Elliot Updated January 8 2014 - 7:31pm, first published 6:54pm Comments If you are like I was, you will have absolutely no idea what Tin City is. A purpose-built satellite settlement for iron workers outside Wollongong? Sorry, incorrect. An interactive mining museum in Broken Hill? Um, no.
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Description This walk on lands of the Worimi people heads down a beach access track before arriving at the beach and Tin City, which is a cluster of 11 shacks on Stockton Beach that have become half-buried with the dune movement. It was featured in several scenes of the 1979 movie Mad Max.
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Alwyn Garland, with dog Sandy, outside his hut at Tin City, Stockton Beach. Credit: Wolter Peeters There are also lots of sharks. Garland once saw a white pointer fly out of the water, jaws.
So Cool! The Unique Tin City, Stockton Beach, NSW. Differentville
Coordinates: 32°49′54″S 151°54′4″E Stockton Beach is located north of the Hunter River in New South Wales, Australia. It is 32 km (20 mi) long and stretches from Stockton, to Anna Bay. Over many years Stockton Beach has been the site of numerous shipwrecks and aircraft crashes.
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Seek out the wonder of Tin City The Tin City Discovery offers the perfect snapshot of this amazing landscape. Explore the 2,500 hectares of sand dunes that make up Stockton Bight, on a fully guided tour in a purpose built 4WD vehicle.
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Stockton, just north of Newcastle, is located 179 km north of Sydney via the Sydney-Newcastle freeway. It is only 2 km (only five minutes by ferry) from the Newcastle CBD but, by road, it is 20 km via Mayfield, Kooragan and the Tourle and Nelson Bay bridges. ^ TOP Origin of Name The local Worimi Aborigines knew Stockton as 'burrinbingon'.
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Growing to heights of 15-30m, the russet-coloured angophoras shed their bark in spring to reveal spectacular new salmon-coloured bark. Sand Dune Safaris offers tours of Stockton sand dunes in Worimi National Park, including the enigmatic Tin City. Guests also have the chance to forage for pippis on the beach and go sand boarding.
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Amongst the dunes is a strange settlement of ramshackle structures known as Tin City. At first, rising from the sand, you expect to see a Stormtrooper and a droid, perhaps an Interceptor, but it's actually the last legal squatters settlement in Australia. The 'city' started in the early 1900s as tin shacks for shipwreck survivors.
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[] TIN CITY - a daily battle with the ever-shifting Stockton Beach sand dunes. [] STOCKTON beach: the largest "mobile" coastal sand mass in the Southern Hemisphere. [] HAVEN for sandboarders. [] REMAINS can still be seen today of the 53,000 tonne Sygna that was blown ashore in 1974.
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Tin City, located on Stockton Beach in Australia, is a fascinating place to explore due to its unique architecture. The structures in Tin City are made entirely out of tin, giving them a distinct and striking appearance.
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Join Sand Dune Safaris for a relaxing drive along Stockton Beach & discover the hidden outpost of "Tin City", emerging out of the dunes like a mirage! Beginning in the 1890's as two tin huts for shipwreck survivors, it then grew to over 36 huts during the 1930's. Eleven huts are still standing!
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Tin City is a special collection of tin huts located in Stockton Beach, near Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. These huts were built a long time ago, in the early 1900s, by people who survived shipwrecks. During the Great Depression in the 1930s, Tin City grew to have more than 36 huts.
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Tin City began in the early 1900's when 2 tin shacks were built for shipwreck survivors. During the great depression of the 1930's, Tin City grew to over 36 huts. Eleven of these huts still stand today! Learn more about this fascinating "City" amid the sand dunes on our Tin City Safari! Tour inclusions:
So Cool! The Unique Tin City, Stockton Beach, NSW. Differentville
Tin City is an off the grid isolated community living in 11 self-built tin sheds constructed over 100 years at Stockton Dunes on NSW's mid north coast. There are no roads to Tin City. Half buried, this squatters' settlement seems to appear from out of nowhere. Due to its unique qualities, the site is often used as a setting by film crews.
Tin City Stockton Beach 4WD Adventure
Tin City: Stockton Beach Easy • 4.3 (25) Worimi Regional park Photos (6) Directions Print/PDF map Length 3.3 miElevation gain 275 ftRoute type Out & back Explore this 3.3-mile out-and-back trail near Salt Ash, New South Wales. Generally considered an easy route, it takes an average of 1 h 14 min to complete.