Image Yurulbin Park 26.JPG 240px thumb right Yurulbin Park Yurulbin Park formerly Long Nose Park is a 1.5 acre 0.61 ha public open space located at the end of Yurulbin Point on the Balmain Peninsula in the suburb of Birchgrove, New South Wales Birchgrove in the Municipality of Leichhardt in Sydney , New South Wales , Australia. Description Yurulbin Point lies north east of Snails Bay and extends approximately 500 meters 1,640 ft into Port Jackson at the northern end of the Balmain Peninsula. Louisa Road runs the length of the point and has spectacular views of Sydney City and the harbour. At the end of the point lies the AILA award winning Yurulbin Park, an idyllic refuge transformed from a derelict industrial site in the early 1970s. The water frontage of the park offers panoramic views from Snails Bay, Goat Island Port Jackson Goat Island , City of Sydney Sydney City and the Sydney Harbour Bridge . The park contains interpretative signs with information about traditional place names of sites in the harbour and the history of the area. History Image Yurulbin Park New South Wales Picture 1.JPG 300px thumb left Yurulbin Park with Sydney Harbour Bridge in the background Prior to European occupation, the local area was close to the border of the Cadigal Gadigal and Wanegal clans of the Eora nation and is believed to lie just within Wanegal land. Evidence of etchings and midden s on nearby private land show the site was used for fishing and conducting feasts. Following European settlement in 1792, George Whitfield was granted an area of land on the north eastern end of the Balmain Peninsular and in time it took the descriptive name Long Nose Point . Given its location, it is believed to have been used as a landing point for water craft on the harbour. Image Yurulbin Park 11.JPG 240px thumb right Interpretative Sign Click to enlarge further The first industrial use of the 1.5 acre 0.61 ha site at the end of Long Nose Point was as a galvanised iron works built b ... more details
Image Bennelong.jpg thumb Portrait of Bennelong , senior man of the Eora Dharawal tribe The Eora are the Aboriginal people language group or tribe of the Sydney, New South Wales Sydney area, south to the Georges River , north to the Hawkesbury River , and west to Parramatta, New South Wales Parramatta . The indigenous people used this word to describe where they came from to the British. Eora was then used by the British to refer to those Australian Aborigines Aboriginal people. The Eora people are made up of separate family groups or clans. Etymology The word Eora sometimes spelled Iora or Iyora is pronounced yura is a word derived from here or this place , and means the people . ref Cite web url http www.sl.nsw.gov.au events exhibitions 2006 eora docs eora guide.pdf publisher State Library of New South Wales year 2006 title Eora Mapping Aboriginal Sydney 1770 1850 page 1 accessdate 27 October 2010 ref Clans The traditional owners of the inner Sydney City region of Australia are the Cadigal people, one of the peoples who belong to the Eora language group. ref http www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au Barani themes theme1.htm Aboriginal People and Place , City of Sydney government website, 2002 ref Their land south of Port Jackson stretches from Sydney Heads South Head South Head to Petersham, New South Wales Petersham . The people described by British settlers as the Eora people were probably Cadigal people, the Aboriginal tribe of the inner Sydney region in 1788 at the time the History of Australia 1788 1850 first European settlers arrived. The Cadigal clan lived to the southwest of the Balmain, New South Wales Balmain peninsula, the Wangal people Wanegal to the northwest, and the Cammeraygal on the present day Lower North Shore Sydney lower North Shore . Language The Dharuk language Eora language has been reconstructed from the many notes made of it by the original colonists, although there has possibly not been a continual oral tradition for over one hundred years. Some ... more details
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