Description
New Brighton, New South Wales, is a small town located north-west of Ocean Shores.
New Brighton, New South Wales, is a small town located north-west of Ocean Shores. It includes a soccer field home to the Shores United Soccer Club and is very close to the Ocean Shores Public School located in North Ocean Shores. At the 2016 census, New Brighton had a population of 356 people.
History
Originally inhabited by the Aboriginal Bundjalung people, the town of what is today New Brighton was originally called North Beach.
On 6 May 1849, during its encounter with a fierce cyclone, the schooner Swift, led by Captain Robb, en route from Brisbane to Sydney, was capsized and drifted to a beach north of present-day New Brighton.
In the 1960s, New Brighton appeared on a postcard as advertisement for a tourist destination. Today it is a small coastal town whose luxury houses are in short distance to a stretch of scenic gold sand beach where surfing is a popular recreation.
In the 2010s, New Brighton was declared 95 percent free of natural gas.
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Population: 101-1000
Time zone: UTC +11:00
Area: 1.753 km2
Elevation: 4-10 metres
Town elevation: 5 m
Population number: 356
Local Government Area: Byron Shire Council
