Scotland Island

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Virginia Macleod

Abstract

Scotland Island lies towards the southern end of Pittwater, in the lands of the Guringai, the original inhabitants of this area. In nearby Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, there are numerous rock engravings carved by the Guringai people.

Middens, containing remnants of shells and fish at places where generations of Guringai dined, have been found on the northern and western parts of Scotland Island. European settlers extracted shells from these middens on the Pittwater foreshore and shipped them to Sydney, to be used for lime to make mortar (although there is no record of this happening on the island).

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Sydney's Suburbs
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Virginia Macleod

Virginia Macleod is a Sydney historian