Box Head, New South Wales

Box Head
Central Coast, New South Wales

Postcode(s)

2257

Location

11 km (7 mi) SSE of Woy Woy

LGA(s)

Central Coast Council

Kincumber

Suburbs around Box Head:
Wagstaffe	Pretty Beach	Killcare
Broken Bay	Box Head	Tasman Sea
Lion Island	Tasman Sea	Tasman Sea

Box Head is a not a suburb but a coastal locality of the Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia in the Central Coast Council local government area.^[1]

It is a part of Bouddi National Park, and contains several beaches including Iron Ladder Beach and Tallow Beach.^[2] The headland itself marks the northern entrance to Broken Bay from the Tasman Sea. Box Head refers to the large headland that viewed from the ocean resembles a box. This part of the coastland was first sighted by Europeans under James Cook, who named features of the area such as Cape Three Points and Broken Bay prior to his discovery of Botany Bay.

References

↑ "Box Head". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales.
↑ UBD (2003). Central Coast Street Directory (13 ed.). Universal Press. Map 117. ISBN 0-7319-1475-9.

Coordinates: 33°32′56″S 151°21′04″E / 33.549°S 151.351°E / -33.549; 151.351

Suburbs of the City of Gosford, Central Coast, New South Wales

Towns, suburbs and localities	Avoca Beach Bar Point Bensville Blackwall Booker Bay Bouddi Box Head Calga Central Mangrove Cheero Point Cogra Bay Copacabana Daleys Point Davistown East Gosford Empire Bay Erina Erina Heights Ettalong Beach Forresters Beach Glenworth Valley Gosford Green Point Greengrove Gunderman Hardys Bay Holgate Horsfield Bay Kariong Killcare Killcare Heights Kincumber Kincumber South Koolewong Kulnura Lisarow Little Wobby Lower Mangrove MacMasters Beach Mangrove Creek Mangrove Mountain Marlow Matcham Mooney Mooney Mooney Mooney Creek Mount Elliot Mount White Narara Niagara Park North Avoca North Gosford Patonga Pearl Beach Peats Ridge Phegans Bay Picketts Valley Point Clare Point Frederick Pretty Beach St Huberts Island Saratoga Somersby Spencer Springfield Tascott Terrigal Umina Beach Upper Mangrove Wagstaffe Wamberal Wendoree Park West Gosford Wisemans Ferry Wondabyne Woy Woy Woy Woy Bay Wyoming Yattalunga

Rivers and other waterways	Brisbane Water Erina Creek Ettalong Creek Forresters Creek Kincumber Creek Mangrove Creek Mooney Mooney Creek Mullet Creek Terrigal Lagoon Wamberal Lagoon Woy Woy Creek

National parks	Bouddi Brisbane Water Dharug

Other places and points of interest	Central Coast Stadium Central Coast Highway Erina Fair Sydney–Newcastle Freeway Watagan Mountains

List of Central Coast, New South Wales suburbs

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