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Bare Island - NSW

Island

Position

DEG: -33.992163 151.231221

DMS: 33º 59' 31.79" S 151º 13' 52.38" E

UTM: 56 H 6237303mN 336632mE

Altitude: 3m

Address & Contact

Bare Island Rd
Botany Bay NSW 2036

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Information

The government of the day built an elaborate fort on this island 30 metres off the coast of La Perouse in the early 1880s, seeing the land Cook had described a century earlier as “a small bare island” as a good place to ward off invaders. But from the moment it opened in 1885, there were problems: an 1890 Royal Commission found that inferior concrete had been used and the crumbling fort was decommissioned by 1902. It was next used as a retirement home for war vets before coming under the jurisdiction of the NSW Parks and Wildlife Service. Later, it would cameo in Mission Impossible II. The island is also the usual location of the four-times-a-year Blak Markets, an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander-led cultural and shopping event.

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Weather

Closest Weather Station

Sydney Airport at 18/04:48am EDT

Distance from Bare Island 7.38km NW

Temperature	Feels Like	Rel. Humidity	Dew Point	Pressure	Rainfall	Wind Direction	Wind Speed	Gusts
20.5°C	18.3°C	94%	19.5°C	1020.3hPa	3.4mm	S	30km/hr 16knots	37km/hr 20knots

Closest Climatic Station

Sydney Airport Amo

Distance from Bare Island 7.38km NW

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Mean Max. °C	26.5	26.4	25.2	22.9	20.0	17.6	17.0	18.3	20.5	22.5	24.0	25.7
Mean Min. °C	18.8	19.0	17.5	14.2	10.9	8.6	7.2	8.1	10.4	13.2	15.4	17.5
Mean Rain mm	94.6	113.3	115.6	106.9	99.7	122.9	71.0	75.5	60.3	70.7	81.2	73.7