| Bald Hill | |
|---|---|
&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Stanwell_Park_from_Bald_Hill.jpg) Stanwell Park and its beach as seen from Bald Hill looking south towards the Sea Cliff Bridge and Wollongong. | |
| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 180 m (590 ft) |
| Coordinates | 34°13′25″S 150°59′34″E / 34.22361°S 150.99278°E[1] |
| Geography | |
&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Australia_New_South_Wales_relief_location_map.png)  Bald Hill | |
| Parent range | Illawarra |
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Bald Hill is a hill on the Illawarra Range, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. With an elevation of approximately 180 metres (590 ft) AMSL, Bald Hill is one of the best known and most popular lookouts in the Illawarra region providing panoramic vistas across the Illawarra escarpment and over the Illawarra plain and the Tasman Sea of the South Pacific Ocean.[2]
The nature reserve on the hill is internationally renowned as a major hang gliding and paragliding site. It was on the beach below Bald Hill that Lawrence Hargrave, an Australian pioneer of flight, experimented with box kites in the early part of the 20th century. A memorial cairn dedicated to Hargrave is located at the peak of the hill near the car park.[2]
- ^ "Place Name Search: Bald Hill". Geoscience Australia. Australian Government. 2010. Retrieved 29 December 2013.
- ^ a b "Bald Hill". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. Retrieved 29 December 2013.
