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Byron Bay is a beachside city positioned inside the some distance-northeastern nook of the kingdom of New South Wales, Australia. It is located 772 kilometres north of Sydney and 165 kilometres south of Brisbane. Cape Byron, a headland adjoining to the city, is the easternmost factor of mainland Australia. At the 2016 census, the city had a everlasting population of 9,246. The metropolis is in flip the nucleus of Byron Shire, which had 31,556 citizens.

The nearby Arakwal Aboriginal human beings's call for the location is Cavvanbah, meaning "assembly area". Lieutenant James Cook named Cape Byron after Naval officer John Byron, circumnavigator of the sector and grandfather of the poet Lord Byron. The history of Europeans in Byron Bay commenced in 1770, when Lieutenant James Cook found a safe anchorage and named Cape Byron after a fellow sailor John Byron. The first enterprise in Byron become cedar logging from the Australian crimson cedar.

The wooden enterprise is the beginning of the word "shoot" in many nearby names  Possum Shoot, Coopers Shoot and Skinners Shoot in which the wood-cutters would "shoot" the logs down the hills to be dragged to waiting ships. Timber getting became insignificant after World War I and plenty of former wood people have become farmers. Gold mining of the seashores become the following industry to occur. Up to twenty mining rentals set up on Tallow Beach to extract gold from the black sands around the 1870s.

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