Box Head is a coastal locality in the Central Coast Council local government area located on the Central Coast of

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, Australia. It is within

Bouddi National Park The Bouddi National Park is a coastal national park that is located in the Central Coast region of New South Wales, in eastern Australia. The national park is situated northeast of Sydney. A section of the national park extends into the Tasman ...

which includes the island of Lion Island. Box has a close proximity to several beaches, including Iron Ladder Beach, Lobster Beach and Tallow Beach. The headland itself marks the northern entrance to

Broken Bay Broken Bay, a semi-mature tide-dominated ria, drowned valley estuary, is a large inlet of the Tasman Sea located about north of Sydney on the Central Coast (New South Wales), Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia; being one of the bodies ...

from the

Tasman Sea The Tasman Sea is a marginal sea of the South Pacific Ocean, situated between Australia and New Zealand. It measures about across and about from north to south. The sea was named after the Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman, who in 1642 wa ...

. Box Head refers to the large headland that viewed from the ocean resembles a box.

History

This part of the coastland was first sighted by Europeans under

James Cook Captain (Royal Navy), Captain James Cook (7 November 1728 – 14 February 1779) was a British Royal Navy officer, explorer, and cartographer famous for his three voyages of exploration to the Pacific and Southern Oceans, conducted between 176 ...

, who named features of the area such as Cape Three Points and Broken Bay following his discovery of Botany Bay in

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References

Suburbs of the Central Coast (New South Wales) Headlands of New South Wales {{CentralCoastNSW-geo-stub