Bundjalung Country map
Where Bundjalung Country runs, why no single map is official, and who holds the boundaries.
Byron hinterland coast
Ocean Shores
Ocean Shores began life as an ambitious 1960s American resort development, and is now a settled residential town between Brunswick Heads and New Brighton.
About Ocean Shores
Ocean Shores recorded around 4,800–5,800 residents at the 2021 Census depending on the exact boundary used (5,528 in the State Suburb locality). The town's origins are unusually well documented: Seattle developer Wendell-West bought the land in the late 1960s, its first project outside the United States, with plans for a 22,000-resident "community resort" and investors including American singer Pat Boone. Those grand plans were scaled back, but the Ocean Shores Country Club golf course the developers built survives — its front nine opened in May 1972 and its back nine that September, designed by noted course architects Robert von Hagge and Bruce Devlin.
Ocean Shores is Bundjalung Country, part of the coastal strip shared with neighbouring Brunswick Heads and New Brighton in the Byron Shire. For matters of language, cultural protocol, or country and family connections, local bodies such as the Tweed Byron Local Aboriginal Land Council and native title bodies are the right contact — not this website.
Keep learning about Bundjalung Country
Clans and groups
Arakwal, Githabul, Bandjalang, Widjabal, Nyangbal, Yugambeh and the other names you will meet.
Bundjalung language
Dialects, why spellings differ, and the language centres that actually teach and publish.
Place names
Which Northern Rivers town names come from Bundjalung language, and which came from Britain.
Bundjalung National Park
The coastal park between Iluka and Evans Head, its campgrounds, and the Iluka rainforest.
History: reserves and land rights
The Protection Board years, the reserves and stations, and where to look for family records.
Parks, sacred places and walks
Jointly managed parks, places custodians ask you to treat with care, and Aboriginal-led walks.
Also on this site
Community email and web hosting
Email for Ocean Shores
A name@bundjalung.au address suits Ocean Shores residents and small businesses who want a stable contact point.
A free static site
Local artists, tradespeople, and small Ocean Shores businesses can get a simple static page live under name.bundjalung.au at no cost once identity checks are complete.
Bundjalung artists, makers, and business owners in Ocean Shores: this page doesn't publish a directory of local people or businesses without their say-so. If you're a Bundjalung artist, maker, or business owner based in or around Ocean Shores and would like a page, portfolio link, or listing here — with a link back to your own site or socials — use the contact form below or email info@bundjalung.au and mention Ocean Shores. Nothing about you goes on this page unless you ask for it.