33°53′37″S 151°17′01″E / 33.893625°S 151.283688°E Ben Buckler is an urban locality in the eastern suburbs of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is part of the suburb of North Bondi in the Waverley Council local government area.[1] It is sometimes referred to simply as "the northern headland of Bondi Bay."[2]
Ben Buckler is the location of the heritage-listed Ben Buckler Gun Battery, which was built in 1892 and subsequently buried; it was later excavated by the NSW Water Board and then reburied.[3][4] It is also the location of the heritage-listed Bondi Sewer Vent.[5]
- ^ Pollon, Frances, ed. (1990). The Book of Sydney Suburbs. Australia: Angus & Robertson Publishers. ISBN 0-207-14495-8.
- ^ "Who was Ben Buckler?" (PDF). Waverley Council. 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 March 2014. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
- ^ "Ben Buckler Gun Battery 1893, 9.2 Disappearing Gun". New South Wales State Heritage Register. Department of Planning & Environment. H01742. Retrieved 2 June 2018.
Text is licensed by State of New South Wales (Department of Planning and Environment) under CC BY 4.0 licence.
- ^ "Defence in Waverley" (PDF). Waverley Heritage Policy. Waverley Council. September 2007. p. 15. Retrieved 16 September 2017.
- ^ "Sewer Vent (Ben Buckler)". New South Wales State Heritage Register. Department of Planning & Environment. H01637. Retrieved 2 June 2018. Text is licensed by State of New South Wales (Department of Planning and Environment) under CC BY 4.0 licence.
