City Island: Collections instal the new for mac

Clarke, the area is given the name ‘Keep Clear Point’.

In a map sketched by W.Proctor in 1841, with extensive notes by the Reverend W.B. Herbert, who was said to have been round of face with eyes to match, making his daily trek home after work with the whites of his eyes protruding from a coal-blackened face, must surely have resembled a ‘Coon’ as in racoon, from which his nickname alleged derived.Ĭoon Island is a low-lying area at the head of the Swansea Channel, opposite Pelican. He spent so much time out on the lake fishing he was always very darkly tanned (from his nephew Ron Hughes).Īnother theory was presented by George and Noeleen Boyd in the 2007 historical reference: “What's in a name: a brief history of some of the names past and present in and around the northern end of the Wallarah Peninsula”, reporting that there were no bathroom facilities in the early days of coal mining, making it necessary for the miners to wash at home.He was a miner and he did not wash at the mine and when he came home from work he had coal dust on his face.The island was named after Herbert Greta Heaney whose nickname was “Coon” Heaney.Ĭommunity Historian, Val Hall, in her publication titled “ History of Coon Island : a collection of facts, photos and memories from former resident's, photos and documents about the community that lived on Coon Island and Little Coonie, Swansea New South Wales between 19” V1 & 2 outlined two theories behind this nickname:

City Island: Collections instal the new for mac