Topics: Sites: Historic
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North West - view
Sackville Reach Reserve
North Coastal - view
a large family cave on Cowan Creek
South Coastal - view
old army barracks at Herne Bay (Riverwood)
North West - view
graveyard that was used by the residents of the former Sackville Reach Reserve
South West - view
Birragal Lagoon
North West - view
Sackville Reach Reserve.
North Coastal - view
a family cave on Cowan Creek
North Coastal - view
a family cave on Cowan Creek
Before Cook - North Coastal - view
Koories also produce ochre paintings of animals and handprints. In both cave and on rock platforms, totemic figures were also reproduced in soil and sand during ceremony.
Before Cook - North Coastal - view
Guringai speakers (some of whom called themselves by the clan names below) met the first fleet when it arrived in 1788 and they were the first Indigenous people in Australia to resist Phillip’s fleet. They inhabited the north shore of Sydney Harbour, living along the coast from Kirribilli then north to Manly up along the northern beaches to Broken Bay and as far as Wyong. Inland they extended to the Lane Cove River. The word for man or person is kuri (Koori) and kuringga , the possessive means ‘belonging to kuri’. Ngai (ng/guy) means ‘woman’. Within the language area were many tribal names such as Garigal, Gayamaygal, Gai-mariagal and Borogegal.
Before Cook - North Coastal - view
The Garigal (Carigal, Karigal) mentioned by the Reverend Lancelot Threlkeld, inhabited the south shore of the Hawkesbury River (Deeriban). Willemerring who speared Governor Phillip was from this clan.
The Cannalgal inhabited the area of Manly Beach and the coast to Dee Why.