Talk:North Head, New South Wales

New South Wales Government Geographical Names Board 19770401 "North Head" Gerographical Names Register Extract:

 * Assigned 1st April 1977;
 * Previously known as Outer North Head Boray
 * GDA94 Lat:-33 48 54; Approx. GDA94 Long: 151 18 04;
 * Headland;
 * Local Government Area is Manly;
 * A headland at the North Entrance of Port Jackson about 1 km S of Quarantine Trig. Station. Bruceanthro (talk) 13:18, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

=== BENNETT, Judith (Accessed 20180916) North Head as part of the larger picture of Australia, North Head Sanctuary Foundation website ===
 * North Head is unique and it is home to a rich diversity of plants and animals, including the endangered populations of Long-nosed Bandicoots and Little Penguins. North Head is "an island-like headland"  "The island-like isolation and remoteness of North Head has contributed to the survival of its natural form"
 * Invited people were able to go from Homebush trading place to North Head for healing or to arrange ceremonial burials. North Head was the special domain of the clever people, as found in a Aboriginal Heritage study in 2000
 * 19th Century, colonisation of Australia took place with increasing numbers of immigrants arriving to farm or to search for gold. Some of these people arrived with disease and were quarantined at North Head. A large area of North Head was "commandeered" for this purpose
 * Experiments were conducted at QS to determine the cause of the disastrous plague that killed so many residents of Sydney at the beginning of the 20th Century. Many of those infected with plague were moved to the QS for quarantine
 * A portion was set aside (St Patrick's estate) to train priests for the newly dominant culture.
 * During World War II, displaced people including boatloads of children from Britain arrived at QS. The aftermath of World War II with the subsequent wave of immigrants to Australia from Eastern Europe and Mediterranean countries is reflected in the records of those quarantined after 1945.
 * The Wars of the 20th Century have influenced the developments on North Head with land commandeered by the Commonwealth for the Artillery School and installations built on North Head for the defence of the Harbour. With the technological advances of the late 20th Century, these types of defence for the Harbour are no longer needed.
 * The Harbour Bridge, opened in 1932, was partly built by people glad to get work in the Great Depression as was the wall and arch at the former gateway of the Quarantine Station.
 * rapid increase in population in the Manly area, particularly after the opening of the Harbour Bridge, created the need for the Manly District Hospital which was built on land no longer needed for the Quarantine Station.
 * Sailors with venereal disease were housed in QS buildings that later became the Police Academ
 * The Quarantine Station was in need of repair when it was handed over to NSW in 1984. Many apprentices, who were finding it hard to get work, were employed in a job creation scheme at QS in the 1980s.
 * Mawland Development Pty Ltd were chosen as the preferred tenderers in 1998 but protests caused delays to the process of finalising a lease. The Conditional Agreement to Lease the Quarantine Station was signed at the beginning of 2000 with Mawland Hotel Mangement Pty Ltd with the expectation that the handover would be at the beginning of May. This would have given Mawland an opportunity to use the Station for accommodation during the Olympics but the level of public protest prevented this
 * The roads on North Head allow for private vehicles to transport people out to viewing platforms. Future uses for North Head must be planned with creative alternatives to private vehicles and could involve closing the whole of North Head to private transport.


 * former defence establishments in Sydney Harbour including the North Head School of Artillery have been declared redundant to defence needs and are being managed Sydney Harbour Federation Trust (SHFT) since 2001 to work for ten years towards a sustainable use for each site prior to hand-over to NSW. The Trust identifies, North Head is "an island-like headland" with the School of Artillery site on its crown. Although the Trust has control only over the former Defence lands, it identifies a strong need to plan holistically for the whole of North Head. The Trust sees North Head as an opportunity to create "a form of sanctuary, where in a city of four million, people would be able to appreciate its sense of remote isolation, its unique ecology and how successive generations have used and responded to its location and form". Therefore, the former School of Artillery site has now been established as "North Head Sanctuary". The official opening was held in 2007.


 * North Head contains several individual sites of heritage significance:-


 * the National Park containing stone walls, an obelisk, burial grounds, former military structures,
 * the Quarantine Station
 * the School of Artillery
 * the National Artillery Museum
 * the former Seaman's Hospital - now the Australian Institute of Police Management
 * Stone Walls and the Parkhill Arch
 * the North Head Sewage Treatment Plant,
 * the Manly Peace Hospital
 * St Patrick's Seminary and the Cardinal's Palace

The School of Artillery precinct forms a central part of the North Head peninsula, which was one of the six sites that formed the first officially decreed group of military reserves in Australia. As the headquarters of the First Heavy Brigade (the "coastal artillery brigade"), it performed a critical role in the defence of Sydney, Australia's largest population and industrial centre, during the only time when the nation has faced the threat of invasion. Bruceanthro (talk) 22:54, 15 September 2018 (UTC)