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This article is about the bay. For the suburb of Woolooware, see Woolooware, New South Wales.

Bay in Southern Sydney, New South Wales

Woolooware Bay
The Georges River, looking east. The Woolooware Bay is pictured as the most easterly bay, to the right and back of the picture, southeast of the Captain Cook Bridge, the most easterly river crossing.
Woolooware BayLocation of Woolooware Bay in New South Wales
Location	Southern Sydney, New South Wales
Coordinates	34°01′55″S 151°09′04″E / 34.03194°S 151.15111°E / -34.03194; 151.15111
Type	Bay
Primary outflows	Georges River
Catchment area	6 km (2.3 sq mi)
Basin countries	Australia
Managing agency	Sutherland Shire Council

Frozen	never
Settlements	Caringbah, Kurnell, Taren Point, Woolooware

The Woolooware Bay is a bay on the lower estuarine Georges River in southern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

Woolooware Bay is also home to local icon "Tattoo" a real life Russian Blue female Feline who lives aboard a moored yacht with her owner,author R.Alexandra. Tattoo is rare in that she is one of very few cats who can claim to be a "Ship's Cat"

Ship's Cat historically:

Revered in ancient Egypt as 'protectors of grain', these cat's kept bilge rat's away from the store as it was being delivered on river barges along The Nile.

During the 2 World Wars of the early 1900's cats were common place onboard Navy ship's,keeping sailor's company and to remind them of home.

Since the late 1970's however, cats have been banned from living aboard navy ship's as when in dock,the cats would head to shore and attack the native bird life.

In modern day society, cats are permitted to live on boats that are privately owned only- making 'Tattoo' one very rare and real "Ship's Cat" .

Location and features

The bay is located near where the Georges River empties into Botany Bay, southeast of the Captain Cook Bridge. The bay's catchment area is bound by Botany Bay to the north, Bate Bay sub-catchment to the east, Gwawley Bay sub-catchment to the west and Port Hacking sub-catchment to the south. The bay is surrounded by the suburbs of Kurnell to the east, Woolooware to the south, and Taren Point and Caringbah to the west of the bay's shore. Mangrove swamps were traditionally located around the bay area. Some were reclaimed to create parks and playing fields including Endeavour Field (Toyota Park), Woolooware Golf Course and Cronulla Golf Course.

References

"Woolooware Bay (NSW)". Gazetteer of Australia online. Geoscience Australia, Australian Government.
"Draft Woolooware Bay Catchment Flood Study" (PDF). Council & The Shire: Public Consultations (PDF). Sutherland Shire Council. April 2003. p. ii. Retrieved 14 June 2014.
"Suburb names in the Sutherland Shire" (PDF).
Pollon, Frances, ed. (1990). The Book of Sydney Suburbs. Australia: Angus & Robertson Publishers. p. 118. ISBN 0-207-14495-8.

External links

"Draft Woolooware Bay Catchment Flood Study" (PDF). Council & The Shire: Public Consultations (PDF). Sutherland Shire Council. April 2003.
"Draft Woolooware Bay Catchment Flood Study - Figures" (PDF). Council & The Shire: Public Consultations (PDF). Sutherland Shire Council. April 2003.

v t e Waterways of the Sydney Metropolitan catchment, New South Wales, Australia
Major inlets and harbours	Botany Bay Broken Bay Middle Harbour Port Jackson Port Hacking
Minor bays and coves	Akuna Balls Head Bantry Berrys Blackwattle Burraneer Canada Careening Cove Cockle Dolans Double Elizabeth Gwawley Gymea Hen & Chicken Homebush Iron Cove Lavender Mosman Neutral Oatley Rose Rozelle Rushcutters Towlers Watsons Weeney White Woolooware
Lagoons	Dee Why Curl Curl Manly Narrabeen
Rivers	Cooks Duck Georges Hacking Hawkesbury Lane Cove Lennox (proposed) Nepean Parramatta Pittwater Woronora
Creeks	A'Becketts Angus Archer Badgerys Bardwell Bare Bedford Bellamy Farm Bellbird Bells Berowra Bidjigal Bilgola Blacktown Blaxland Blue Gum Boggywell Bonds Breakfast Brennans Brickmakers Bunbury Curran Bungarribee Burdekin Byrnes Cabramatta Caddies Cahill Camp Careel Carroll Charity Claremont Clear Paddock Creek Coal and Candle Coopers Cosgrove Cowan Coxs (Belfield) Cup and Saucer Darling Mills Deadmans Devlin Duck Eastern Erskine Eskdale Excelsior Finlaysons First Ponds Forbes Green Valley Frenchs Glenbrook Gore Grantham Greystanes Haslams Hunts Iron Cove Johnstons Kemps Knapsack Lalor Little Lowes Marsden McCarrs McKenzies McMahon's Maxwells Middle Harbour Mill Minchinbury O'Hares Orphan School Orphan School (Fairfield) Pendle Hill Powells Prospect Punchbowl Quakers Reedy Rileys Ropes Saleyards Salt Pan Sawmill Scout Second Ponds Smalls Smiths South Still Stoney Subiaco Tarban Terrys Thompsons Toongabbie Two Vineyard Werrington Whites Williams Wolli
Canals and streams	Alexandra Canal Busby's Bore Guildford West pipehead and water supply canal Hawthorne Canal Tank Stream Upper Canal System
Reservoirs	Balmain (disused) Botany Swamps Centennial Park Lake Burragorang Manly Dam Reserve Paddington (disused) Penshurst Petersham Lake Parramatta Prospect Prospect Hill Reservoir Upper Nepean Scheme Waverley
Adjoining rivers and bays	Akuna Brisbane Water Burke Cataract Colo Cordeaux Coxs Grose Hollanders Jenolan Jooriland Kedumba Kowmung Macdonald Mooney Mooney Mulwaree Nattai Tarlo Warragamba Wollondilly

v t e Coastal bays and inlets of New South Wales, Australia
North of Sydney Harbour	Akuna Anna Bateau Blue Boat Harbour Bonnells Booker Brisbane Water Broken Byron Careel Carey Catherine Hill Chain Valley Chittaway Cogra Crangan Croudace Crowdy Elvina Empire Fennell Fingal Fishermans Hardys Kilaben Lovett Morning Myuna Bay Nelson One Mile Oyster Phegans Port Stephens Salamander Shoal Tanilba Toowoon Trial Warners Woy Woy
Within Sydney Harbour	Balls Head Bantry Berrys Blackwattle Canada Careening Cove Cockle Double Elizabeth Hen & Chicken Homebush Iron Cove Lavender Mosman Neutral Oatley Port Jackson Rose Rozelle Rushcutters Towlers Watsons White
South of Sydney Harbour	Bate Batemans Bittangabee Bondi Bonnet Botany Burraneer Callala Coogee Dolans Gunnamatta Gwawley Gymea Jervis Bay Kogarah Kyle Little Mackenzies Malua Mystery Port Hacking Twofold Weeney Wattamolla Woolooware Yowie
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