Berry Canal
The estuary has two entrances, a southern one at Crookhaven Heads that is permanently open, and northern one at Shoalhaven Heads which is open intermittently during floods. The entrances are 5 km apart, and around 150 km south of Sydney.
A short canal between the Shoalhaven and the Crookhaven was convict constructed in the June 1822 by a convict party overseen by Hamilton Hume under the direction of Alexander Berry to facilitate ship transport to the original European settlement there. The construction of the canal formed Comerong Island. The canal was dug using own hand tools, and was the first land navigable canal in Australia. It remains one of two navigable canals in New South Wales, the other being the Alexandra Canal.
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