Beecroft Peninsula is a peninsula

Peninsula

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 located to the north and east of Jervis Bay

Jervis Bay

Jervis Bay is a large bay bounded by the state of New South Wales, the Jervis Bay Territory, and a detached enclave of the Australian Capital Territory. HMAS Creswell is located between Jervis Bay Village and Greenpatch in the Jervis Bay Territory.-History:...

 in south-eastern Australia

Australia

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. The peninsula forms the northern headland of Jervis Bay.

The Peninsula is divided between the State of New South Wales

New South Wales

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 and the Australian Capital Territory

Australian Capital Territory

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.

The ACT section was transferred to the Commonwealth of Australia in 1915, as part of the Jervis Bay

Jervis Bay

Jervis Bay is a large bay bounded by the state of New South Wales, the Jervis Bay Territory, and a detached enclave of the Australian Capital Territory. HMAS Creswell is located between Jervis Bay Village and Greenpatch in the Jervis Bay Territory.-History:...

 lands transferred by New South Wales to federal control to provide the national capital with access to the sea . While the bulk of this land was established as a separate Jervis Bay Territory

Jervis Bay Territory

The Jervis Bay Territory is a territory of the Commonwealth of Australia. It was surrendered by the state of New South Wales to the Commonwealth Government in 1915 so that the Federal capital at Canberra would have "access to the sea"....

 when the Australian Capital Territory was granted self-government, the portion on the Beecroft Peninsula remains part of the ACT. The ACT portion of the peninsula consists of a strip of land around the southern edge of the peninsula, which is the northern headland of Jervis Bay. However, the Point Perpendicular lighthouse

Point Perpendicular Light

Point Perpendicular Light is a lighthouse located on Point Perpendicular, a point at the southern tip of the Beecroft Peninsula, in New South Wales, Australia. It marks and the northern entrance to Jervis Bay. The historic lighthouse was active from 1889 to 1993 and is still present, though its...

 (and its grounds) at Point Perpendicular

Point Perpendicular

Point Perpendicular is a point at the southern tip of the Beecroft Peninsula and at the northern entry to Jervis Bay, in New South Wales, Australia...

, which is the southern tip of the peninsula and at the northern entrance to Jervis Bay, remains an enclave of New South Wales territory within the ACT's enclave.

A large part of the peninsula (both NSW and ACT portions) is under the administration of the Royal Australian Navy

Royal Australian Navy

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 for use as a live-firing range. For this reason, access to this part of the peninsula is restricted at certain times.

Due to strong winds and waves from the south the peninsula contains numerous caves and blowhole

Blowhole

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s. Its varied fauna and vegetation have led to a request for the area to be made into a National Park

National park

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. There is a town in the northeast of the peninsula called Currarong

Currarong, New South Wales

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.

See also

• Point Perpendicular
  Point Perpendicular
  Point Perpendicular is a point at the southern tip of the Beecroft Peninsula and at the northern entry to Jervis Bay, in New South Wales, Australia...
  
  
• Jervis Bay (Australia)
• Jervis Bay Territory
  Jervis Bay Territory
  The Jervis Bay Territory is a territory of the Commonwealth of Australia. It was surrendered by the state of New South Wales to the Commonwealth Government in 1915 so that the Federal capital at Canberra would have "access to the sea"....