Wide view of Hyams Beach, Jervis Bay, Australia.

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Hyams Beach

Jervis Bay · Australia

View of Hyams Beach in Jervis Bay
Hyams Beach in Jervis Bay.

The short version, from the cited sources

Hyams Beach faces the sheltered waters of Jervis Bay on the New South Wales south coast, part of a chain of strikingly white quartz-sand beaches inside and around Booderee and Jervis Bay's protected areas. Popular accounts often repeat a claim that its sand is the whitest in the world; the claim has no official measurement behind it, but the brightness of the sand and the clarity of the bay are real and draw heavy summer visitation to a very small village.

Country
Australia (AU)
Region
Oceania
Sand
White
Water
Clear, sheltered bay water
Administrative area
New South Wales
Timezone
Australia/Sydney
Source family
GeoNames
Source updated
2016-03-18

Names in the record

Hyams Beach

No alternate names were supplied by the source.

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Source position

-35.10336, 150.69339

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  1. GeoNames Gazetteer ExtractGeoNames ↗

    Beach features T.BCH and T.BCHS from the dated global dump; supplied as-is by GeoNames.

    Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 · Retrieved 2026-09-02
  2. Wikipedia beach articlesWikimedia Foundation ↗

    Encyclopedia articles used for the editorial summary of illustrated records; the per-record citation links the specific article.

    Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 · Retrieved 2026-10-04
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