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White Horse Point

White Horse Point Visited in on 28 June 2009 Comment View on map -33.85290923302123;151.17149144411087

Looking south-west to Sommerville Point.
Looking south-west to Sommerville Point (middle distance) and Iron Cove Bridge.
Looking south-west to Sommerville Point (middle distance) with Iron Cove Bridge and Birkenhead Point in the distance.
Looking north to Cockatoo Island.
Looking north-west with Hunters Hill across the water.
Looking east-south-east to Dawn Fraser Pool.
Dawn Fraser Pool.
Looking north-east to Robinsons Point, Birchgrove. The ridge of Manns Point is at top left near the white spinnaker, with Greenwich and Crows Nest in the distance.
Looking north-east to Robinsons Point (middle distance) with Manns Point behind (point obscured) with apartments of Crows Nest and Greenwich on the ridge.

The interesting name for this point has two stories attached. The bushranger who became Captain Thunderbolt escaped from the prison on Cockatoo Island and swam to this point where his girl had a white horse waiting to make their escape to New England (country NSW). The less glamorous story is the old ‘let’s name the point after the shape of a rock’ theory (a la Pulpit Point, Quakers Hat, etc).

Good family point, lots of facilities, plus the Dawn Fraser Pool for a harbourside dip sans shark.

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