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The Port of Yamba Yamba is a town on the seaside located at the mouth of the Clarence River, approximately 500 kilometres north of Sydney. It is also positioned at the entrance to the largest estuarine river system in New South Wales. Yamba now has an important seaport that handles goods going to and from overseas as well as other ports in Australia due to the major harbour works in the last 140 years. The area of Yamba, once supported a particularly high population of Aboriginal people. The tribes of Aborigines were very large, high organised, semi-permanent and were very close to the coast. The density of the Aboriginal population was because of the plentiful supply of possums, snakes and birds. Europeans settlement of the area did not begin until 1839 when cedar cutters arrived. The timber trade grew for many years despite the danger that ships faced in negotiating a...

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