Hope you had fun exploring Stockton Foreshore. Need some help with the scavenger hunt or want to check your answer? Scroll down to the question to see the answer.
Question 1
Head first to the Stockton Active Hub, a combination playground and skate park. What colour is the big slide?
Answer: red
Question 2a
Find the Ferrying Stockton’s Workers Information Board north of the Ferry Wharf exit. This sign describes how Stockton was a home base for industrial workers. What major Newcastle employer opened in 1915?
Answer: BHP Steelworks
Question 2b
Examine the Stockton map and spot the ferry wharves marked with circles. How many wharves did there used to be?
Answer: five
Question 3
Walk east along the Stockton Foreshore park and you’ll spot a sign called Pirate Point. In November 1800 at Broken Bay, a gang of convicts seized a boat and sailed it to Newcastle. What was this boat called?
Answer: Norfolk
Question 4
Find the sign “Stockton Foreshores c1880s”. What item that you can find on a ship do you see stretched across this sign?
Answer: rope
Question 5
Look for the Burrabihngarn sign. It describes how this area is significant to local indigenous people. It also explains that the area is culturally linked to a creature. What is the creature?
Answer: shark
Question 6
Find the “Stockton Colliery Was Here” sign. This describes the operations of the Stockton Coal Mine which was originally in this location. What colour is used to mark the mine on the map?
Answer: orange
Question 7
Further along the walk, you’ll spot a sign about the Stockton anti-aircraft battery. This is the site of the original battery. When Newcastle was fired upon by Japanese submarines on 8 June 1942, the Stockton AA Wave Battery guns returned fire. How many airplanes are shown heading for Newcastle on this drawing?
Answer: nine
Question 8a
Next up is the sign “Breakwater on the Oysterbank” sign. What was constructed between 1898 and 1912 and was a major engineering feat due to the shifting sandbank?
Answer: Stockton Breakwater
Question 8b
What is the name of the ship shown on this board? It was shipwrecked on Stockton Breakwater on 1 October 1904. If you walk out on the Stockton Breakwall now, you’ll see the rusting hulk.
Answer: Adolphe
Mystery Question
There are a few names for Stockton including its indigenous name of Burrabihngarn. This was recorded as the name on a survey map of the Hunter region in 1828 by Henry Dangar. What other name was Stockton previously called?
Answer: Pirate Point