Port Hacking, New South Wales

Infobox Australian Place | type = suburb
name = Port Hacking
city = Sydney
state = nsw


caption = Port Hacking estuary, view towards the heads
lga = Sutherland Shire
postcode = 2229
est =
pop =
area =
propval =
stategov = Cronulla
fedgov = Cook
near-nw = Caringbah
near-n = Dolans Bay
near-ne = Dolans Bay
near-w = Lilli Pilli
near-e = Burraneer
near-sw = Lilli Pilli
near-s = "Royal National Park"
near-se = Maianbar
dist1 = 26
dir1 = south
location1= Sydney CBD

Port Hacking is a small suburb in southern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Port Hacking is located 26 kilometres south of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the Sutherland Shire. The suburb sits on the north shore of the Port Hacking estuary.

Port Hacking is surrounded by the suburbs of Caringbah, Lilli Pilli and Dolans Bay. The villages of Maianbar and Bundeena are located on the opposite bank of Port Hacking. Port Hacking is a mostly residential suburb with no commercial areas, schools or churches.

History

Port Hacking was named after Henry Hacking (1750-1831), a quartermaster on Governor Phillip’s "HMS Sirius", part of the First Fleet. Hacking became a skilled, adventurous bushman, who led many hunting expeditions to supplement meat rations for Australia’s first settlers. He was amongst the party that found the lost government cattle at Cowpastures in 1795. Hacking discovered the Port Hacking River during one of his hunts and later was named after him by Matthew Flinders and George Bass when they explored there in late March, early April 1796. The northern headland, located at Cronulla is called Bass and Flinders Point.

Thomas Holt (1811-88) owned most of the land that stretched from Sutherland to Cronulla, including land here. In 1840, parish maps also showed that 20 acres of land on this point were owned by Francis Mitchell. In 1858 Mary and Andrew Webster paid 108 pounds and 15 shillings plus a yearly peppercorn quit rent for their land in this area. The Websters sold their land to Dominick Dolan in 1863. [ "The Book of Sydney Suburbs", Compiled by Frances Pollen, Angus & Robertson Publishers, 1990, Published in Australia ISBN 0-207-14495-8 ]

Pop Culture

Port Hacking is the hosting ground for Australia's Next Top Model series 4 in 2008.

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