Ben Buckler is an urban locality in eastern Sydney

Sydney

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, in the state of New South Wales

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, Australia

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. It is part of the suburb

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 of North Bondi

North Bondi, New South Wales

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 and the local government area of Waverley Council in the Eastern Suburbs

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Legends say that Ben Buckler was named after a convict who inhabited a cave in the cliffs at North Bondi and died after a fall from a ledge.

Ben Buckler is the location of the Ben Buckler Gun Battery, which was built in 1892 and subsequently buried; it was later excavated by the Water Board and then reburied .

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