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Crowds viewing the Hereward, aground at Maroubra c1898

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Maroubra

Originally fishing and camping grounds for the local Muru-ora-dial Aboriginal people, Maroubra is now the largest suburb in the area governed by Randwick City Council, in both area and population. However, its early beginnings did not foresee such developments. Industry and the spectacle of dramatic shipwrecks drew Europeans to the area in the late nineteenth century but development didn't begin in earnest until the early twentieth century.

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Maroubra Beach

Surfing beach in south-eastern Sydney.

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Maroubra

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South-eastern beachside suburb. Its name is believed to come from a tribe that lived there, or from a Dharuk companion of Bennelong. Another conjectured meaning is 'like thunder', referring to the sound of heavy surf.

Hereward

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Iron clipper of 1513 tons which traded between Britain and the colonies and was wrecked on the northern end of Maroubra Beach in 1898 though all 25 crew survived. The wreckage remained on the beach for several decades.