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Breakfast Point is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. According to historical records, the suburb name is derived from the first contact between Europeans and the traditional owners of the land, the Wangal Clan. The encounter took place on 5th of February, 1788 during Captain John Hunter's exploration of the Parramatta River, while Hunter was having breakfast. William Bradley, First Lieutenant on board HMS Sirius, recorded the following entry in the log: We landed to cook breakfast on the opposite shore to them (Breakfast Pt.). We made signs to them to come over and waved green boughs. Soon after which 7 of them came over in 2 canoes and landed near our boats. They left their spears in the canoes and came to us. We tied beads etc. about them and left them our fire to dress their muscles which they went about as soon as our boats put off. Hunter, who was later to become Governor of New South Wales, is also remembered in the name of the nearby suburb of Hunter's Hill. Breakfast Point is the location of one of the largest urban renewal projects in Sydney on a site formerly belonging to AGL. The New South Wales State Government took control of the approval process for the development away from Canada Bay Council in August 2005, citing lengthy delays as the reason. These delays had been caused by disagreements between the local council and the developer, Rosecorp, over the provision of public transport, public access to the area and its landscaping. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
