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Lennox Head, New South Wales
Lennox Head is a seaside village in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia, situated on the stretch of coast between Byron Bay and Ballina in Ballina Shire local government area. It had a population of 7,741 in the 2016 Australian census.
It is on the lands of the Bundjalung people, who are the traditional owners of this region.
Captain Henry John Rous, on the survey ship Rainbow, named Lennox Head after his friend, Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond in 1828. From 1842, freed convicts who now worked as loggers, formed small colonies in the area which would eventually become the town.
The headland was created in the Cenozoic era as part of one of the lava flows from the Tweed Volcano, a shield volcano, centred on what is now Mount Warning. The basaltic lava spread south and east from the volcano in a succession of flows which covered to varying depths an older landform uplifted from the ocean bed in the Mesozoic era.[citation needed]
In 1957, a major bushfire which had burned for several days in swamp behind Lennox Head changed direction and swept through the town. Local residents had some warning and sheltered in the space between the lake and the ocean. No houses were lost.[citation needed]
On 3 June 2010, the village was hit by a small Tornado, which severely damaged thirty homes, a number of people were injured and seven vans overturned at the Lake Ainsworth Caravan Park.[citation needed]
In January 2014, a major bushfire broke out just north of the town, igniting heathland all the way north to Suffolk Park. The blaze was started by a lightning strike and continued for another month due to underground peat fires.
According to the 2016 census of Population, there were 7,741 people in the Lennox Head - Skennars Head area.
Lennox Head, New South Wales
Lennox Head is a seaside village in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia, situated on the stretch of coast between Byron Bay and Ballina in Ballina Shire local government area. It had a population of 7,741 in the 2016 Australian census.
It is on the lands of the Bundjalung people, who are the traditional owners of this region.
Captain Henry John Rous, on the survey ship Rainbow, named Lennox Head after his friend, Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond in 1828. From 1842, freed convicts who now worked as loggers, formed small colonies in the area which would eventually become the town.
The headland was created in the Cenozoic era as part of one of the lava flows from the Tweed Volcano, a shield volcano, centred on what is now Mount Warning. The basaltic lava spread south and east from the volcano in a succession of flows which covered to varying depths an older landform uplifted from the ocean bed in the Mesozoic era.[citation needed]
In 1957, a major bushfire which had burned for several days in swamp behind Lennox Head changed direction and swept through the town. Local residents had some warning and sheltered in the space between the lake and the ocean. No houses were lost.[citation needed]
On 3 June 2010, the village was hit by a small Tornado, which severely damaged thirty homes, a number of people were injured and seven vans overturned at the Lake Ainsworth Caravan Park.[citation needed]
In January 2014, a major bushfire broke out just north of the town, igniting heathland all the way north to Suffolk Park. The blaze was started by a lightning strike and continued for another month due to underground peat fires.
According to the 2016 census of Population, there were 7,741 people in the Lennox Head - Skennars Head area.
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