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Southern NSW Region

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The southern NSW region extends for 1000 km between Cape Hawke and the border at Cape Howe. The coast has a humid sub-tropical to temperate climate and several small- to moderate-sized rivers and numerous streams draining the Eastern Highland which flow into estuaries at the coast. The coast is a mix of rocky shore and headlands and short embayed beaches, together with numerous estuaries and a few river mouths. It is exposed to moderate to occasionally high southerly swell and micro-tides. These maintain wave-dominated beaches and northerly sand transport which is interrupted and/or stopped by the numerous headlands and structures. Sediments are quartz-rich apart from some rocky carbonate-enriched sections. Barrier are limited in extent and dominated by small regressive to stable systems, together with a few large transgressive dune systems including clifftop dunes, with the estuaries and shelf sand bodies also acting as major sediment sinks. This chapter describes the regions’ beaches, barriers, sediment transport and sediment compartments.

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    Note: The NSW open coast is divided into 23 coastal LGAs that are required to develop coastal zone management plans. To this end they also undertake coastal hazard and process studies, which from 2018 are required to use a sediment compartment approach, examining whole SCs and their sediment sources, transport and sinks, rather than individual beaches or parts of the coast. All past reports are usually available online from the council websites and provide a detail assessment of each LGA coastline and in many cases individual beaches. They provide a wealth of information on the NSW coast, its geology, geomorphology, processes, hazards and management and are updated on a recurring basis, with future reports adopting the compartment approach. Some of the existing reports are referenced in this and the following chapter.

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Short, A.D. (2020). Southern NSW Region. In: Australian Coastal Systems. Coastal Research Library, vol 32. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14294-0_19

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