Ben Buckler, New South Wales

Ben Buckler is an urban locality in eastern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is part of the suburb of North Bondi and the local government area of Waverley Council in the Eastern Suburbs.

Legends say that Ben Buckler was named after a convict who inhabited a cave in the cliffs at North Bondi and died after a fall from a ledge.

The locality of Ben Buckler is the location of a historical fortificaiton and gun emplacement call the Ben Buckler Gun Battery that was built in 1892 and was recently excevated from under a public reserve in the area.

References

• The Book of Sydney Suburbs, Compiled by Frences Pollen, Angus & Robertson Publishers, 1990, Published in Australia ISBN 0-207-14495-8