Ballina Island (Ballina)
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New South Wales /
Ballina
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island, invisible
Semi-artificial island cut off from mainland by the completion of the North Creek Canal in 1896, to
enable sugar-cane barges to bypass effects of ocean swell near mouth of Richmond River during their transit to Broadwater Sugar Mill.
Of course, history being the perverse thing it is, North Creek is no longer the sugar-producing area it once was...
enable sugar-cane barges to bypass effects of ocean swell near mouth of Richmond River during their transit to Broadwater Sugar Mill.
Of course, history being the perverse thing it is, North Creek is no longer the sugar-producing area it once was...
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 28°51'43"S 153°33'42"E
- Goodwood Island 63 km
- Palmer's Island 65 km
- Harwood Island 67 km
- Hope Island 115 km
- Coomera Island 116 km
- Kangaroo Island 126 km
- South Stradbroke Island 126 km
- Russell Island 138 km
- North Stradbroke Island 165 km
- Moreton Island - National Park 206 km
- Ballina Golf Course 2 km
- Ballina/Byron Gateway Airport (YBNA) 3 km
- Ballina-Lennox Head Water Reuse Facility 4 km
- Cumbalum 5.2 km
- Wollongbar TAFE 16 km
- 892 Boatharbour Road 19 km
- Byron Bay Golf Course 21 km
- Rosebank Macadamia Farm 26 km
- Tyagarah Nature Reserve 31 km
- The Channon 35 km