Byron Bay Visitor Centre 80 Jonson Street, Byron Bay – adjacent to the bus and railway station Byron Bay Telephone: 02 6680 8558 www.visitbyronbay.com Brunswick Heads Visitor Information Centre 7 Park Street Brunswick Heads Telephone: 02 6685 1003 www.brunswickheads.org.au See Camping areas in Byron Shire See Byron Trails Map
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Suburb/Town Post Code Andersons Hill 2482 Bangalow 2479 Billinudgel 2483 Binna Burra 2479 Blind Mouth 2482 Booyong 2480 *** Broken Head 2481 *** Brunswick Heads 2483 Byron Bay 2481 Clunes 2480 *** Coopers Creek 2480 Coopers Lane 2482 Coopers Shoot 2479 Coorabell 2479 Crabbes Creek 2483 *** Durrumbul 2482 Eureka 2480 Everitts Hill 2482 Ewingsdale 2481 Federal 2480 Golden Beach 2483 Goonengerry 2482 Huonbrook 2482 Koonyum Range 2482 Lavertys Gap 2482 Main Arm 2482 Mcleods Shoot 2479 Middle Pocket 2483 Montecollum 2482 Mullumbimby 2482 Mullumbimby Creek 2482 Myocum 2481 Nashua 2479 New Brighton 2483 Newrybar 2479 *** Ocean Shores 2483 Ocean Shores North 2483 Opossum Creek 2479 Palmwood 2482 Palmwoods 2482 Possum Creek 2479
read moreCape Byron is the easternmost point of the mainland of Australia. It is located about 3 km (1.9 mi) northeast of the town of Byron Bay and projects into the Pacific Ocean. The Cape is home to Cape Byron State Conservation Area. Built in 1901, the Cape Byron Lighthouse is the last of the great 19th-century Victorian era lighthouses managed by the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS). It is constructed from concrete blocks and stands on the most easterly point of the Australian mainland. There are a number of walking trails which traverse the park. Most of it is wheelchair accessible, and bicycles can also use the path. A 3.7 kilometres (2.3 mi) loop walk can be started at any point with parking available at Captain Cook Lookout, Palm Valley, Wategos Beach and the Lighthouse. Cape Byron is part of the 22,000 hectare Cape Byron Marine Park, which was
read moreThe local Arakwal Aboriginal people’s name for the area is Cavvanbah, meaning “meeting place”. The history of Europeans in Byron Bay began in 1770, when Captain James Cook found a safe anchorage and named Cape Byron after Captain John Byron, who circumnavigated the globe in 1764-66 and thus preceded Cook on the Pacific. In the 1880s, when Europeans settled more permanently, streets were named for other English writers and philosophers. Byron Bay is part of the erosion caldera of an ancient shield volcano, the Tweed Volcano, which erupted 23 million years ago. The volcano formed as a result of the Indo-Australian Plate moving over the East Australia hotspot. 1770: Captain Cook sails past and names Cape Byron as a tribute to his fellow navigator, Vice-Admiral John Byron, grandfather of the famous poet. The area was called Cavvanba, meaning meeting place, by the local Arakawal and Minjangbal tribes. 1840s: The “Big
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