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Gymea Bay is home to the heritage-listed Gymea Bay Baths, at the shore of Gymea Bay Baths Reserve at the intersection of Gymea Bay Road and Ellesmere Road. Gymea Bay Amateur Swimming Club has been using the baths for over 40 years. The bay and Port Hacking estuary are used extensively for watersports
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people and became the inspiration for the suburb's name, by government surveyor W.A.B. Geaves in 1855. The Gymea Lily has been adopted as a symbol of the area and features on the crest of many local organisations. Development in the area has eradicated most of these lilies but some can still be
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suburb
Gymea Bay, New South Wales
Gymea, New South Wales

bay
Gymea Bay is located in New South Wales
New South Wales
Southern Sydney
New South Wales
34°02′55″S 151°06′04″E / 34.04861°S 151.10111°E / -34.04861; 151.10111
Type
Bay
Primary inflows
Primary outflows
Port Hacking
Basin
Australia
Gymea Bay
Gymea
bay
Port Hacking
southern Sydney
New South Wales
Australia
Gymea Bay
Gymea
Gymea Lily
Eora
Royal National Park
wakeboarding

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