Wattamolla
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Wattamolla, also known as Wattamolla Beach, is a cove, lagoon, and beach on the New South Wales coast south of Sydney, within the Royal National Park.
Wattamolla lagoon, looking towards the Tasman Sea, with Wattamolla Beach in the distance and the waterfall in the foreground
Aerial view of Wattamolla
Waterfall
Lagoon with beach in background.
Matthew Flinders
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Captain Matthew Flinders was a British Royal Navy officer, navigator and cartographer who led the first inshore circumnavigation of mainland Australia, then called New Holland. He is also credited as
Wattamolla
…west of the lagoon. Wattamolla is the local Aboriginal name of the area, meaning "place near running water". That name was recorded as Watta-Mowlee by Matthew Flinders, but is today spelt Wattamolla. Matthew Flinders, George Bass and a boy, William Martin had been exploring the south-coast from Port Jackson as far as…
Portrait by Antoine Toussaint de Chazal, c. 1806–1807
1799 Flinders Expedition plaque at Mount Beerburrum, one of the Glass House Mountains in Queensland, Australia
Flinders in 1801, a miniature portrait on ivory
Church of St Mary and the Holy Rood, Donington, Lincolnshire, where Flinders was baptised, and was reburied in 2024