Palm Beach

Suburb

Beachside suburb on the Barrenjoey Peninsula in Sydney's north.

Palm Beach

by Virginia Macleod, 2008

 

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Traditionally owned by the Guringai people, Palm Beach became a haunt of smugglers and fisherman after Europeans arrived, until the customs house, and subsequently the lighthouse, brought shipping under more control. In the early twentieth century the land was sold for holiday and second homes, reached by ferry. It only gradually became the playground for the rich that it is today.
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Palm Beach demographics