The coastal coal-carrying trade of New South Wales involved the shipping of coal—mainly for local consumption but also for export or coal bunkering—by sea to Sydney from the northern and southern coal
Loading coal at "the Dyke", Carrington, c. 1900
Coal seam outcrop, Glenrock State Conservation Reserve, near where coal was first used by escaped convicts in 1791
Coal seam outcrop at Bell's Point, at the northern end of Austinmer Beach. This is the coal seam noted by George Bass in 1797.
Upper coal seam outcrop in the sea cliff at Reid's Mistake, Swansea Heads.
The Stone Fleet was the colloquial name for the small coastal ships that carried crushed-stone construction aggregate to Sydney from the Illawarra ports of Kiama and Shellharbour and the nearby ocean
Kiama loading crushed stone at the Robertson Basin, Kiama (unknown date, but between 1902 and 1917)
Columnar basalt at Bombo Quarry.
The harbour at Kiama (c. 1905–1917). Photographer Kerry, Charles H., from the Tyrrell Collection of the Powerhouse Museum.
Kiama in 1936. The port is in the front centre and the quarry to right.