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Scotland Island is one of two inhabited islands in the Sydney area. The island is accessed by the Church Point Ferry and private vessels. Most of the island consists of bushland, with a residential zone of about 350 houses around the perimeter foreshore.
Scotland Island is a thriving, vibrant and welcoming community situated in the Pittwater estuary, Sydney, Australia. Around 1000 people live here, some as weekenders, others as permanent residents. Accessed by water only, the island is a refuge for natural forests, bushland reserves and native animals. Visitors love the shimmering water and ...
1788 Europeans arrived in New South Wales and began to displace Aboriginal communities, including the Guringai people who had had lived in Pittwater for thousands of years. 1788 Pittwater explored by Governor Phillip who named it and the island (then Pitt Island) at its southern end after the British Prime Minister, William Pitt.
7 lis 2013 · Hidden in an estuary in Australia’s biggest city is a remote island community of artists, eccentrics and families. IT’S CHRISTMAS EVE, and for the island and bayside residents of Pittwater, in northern Sydney, that means one thing: the dog race.
Scotland Island is a water-borne community situated in an estuary called Pittwater, part of Broken Bay in northern Sydney, New South Wales. Along with our neighbours on the Western Foreshores of Pittwater we are known as the ‘Offshore Communities’.
Even though it is close to the city of Sydney and its suburbs, living on Scotland Island presents some difficulties for the 644 inhabitants. The terrain is steep, rising to 100 metres in places, and most people walk: it takes about an hour to circle its 2.5-kilometre circumference.
6 kwi 2021 · Scotland Island in Sydney’s northern beaches once had no power and is only accessible by boat. But over the years, this secluded spot has built a community of it’s own, and newcomers want to ...
