About Seal Rocks
Seal Rocks is a small coastal settlement in the MidCoast Council area on the Mid North Coast, 275 km north-north-east of Sydney. It is famous for its premier surfing beaches, including Lighthouse Beach, Treachery and Yagon, and for Sugarloaf Point Lighthouse, which stands here. At the 2021 census the area had 56 residents.
Before European settlement the land was occupied by the Worimi Aboriginal people.
How Seal Rocks got here
A few dates and facts that shaped the place.
1875
The Sugarloaf Point Light is lit on 1 December; it is converted to acetylene in 1923, electrified in 1966, and automated by 1987.
1895
The SS Catterthun, bound for China from Sydney, is wrecked on the rocks, with heavy loss of life.
1945
The former Dutch submarine HMAS K9 is lost near the lighthouse; found in 1999, it is now a heritage site.
More about Seal Rocks
The Rainbow was wrecked on Seal Rocks on 2 June 1864. The lighthouse is heritage listed. Seal Rocks is well known for its peaceful resistance to attempts to commercialise the small fishing village: “Save Seal Rocks The Last Frontier” has been painted on the road in, and repainted, for over thirty years. The 2013 film Adore was filmed here.
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Where is Seal Rocks?
Seal Rocks is in the MidCoast Council area on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales.
Nearby towns with hubs on OurHub, with straight-line distances: Smiths Lake (7 km north-west), Bungwahl (10 km north-west), Pacific Palms (10 km north), Coomba Park (23 km north).
What the Seal Rocks directory lists
To eat and drink: Single Fin Coffee.
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Photo: “2015-12-25 Seal Rocks beach” by Maksym Kozlenko (CC BY-SA 4.0), via Wikimedia Commons. Town facts: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites the Australian Bureau of Statistics census. Straight-line distances are worked out from the hub’s coordinates. Directory locations © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).