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Nobbys headland

Captain James Cook was the first European to sight Nobbys Island and described it as "a small clump of an island lying close to shore".


Since then, Nobbys has played a vital role in the history of the port city. For information about plans to join the island to the mainland, to a controversial plan to make it smaller, please browse through this section.


It was not until the discovery of coal by Europeans in 1797 by Lt. John Shortland, however, that the region was viewed as having any significance.

 

First Discovery of Nobbys

Wind in Ships Sails

Physical Changes

Convict Built Pier