Lennox Head, New South Wales
Lennox Head | |
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Lennox Point | |
Lennox Head | |
| Coordinates: 28°48′S 153°35′E / 28.800°S 153.583°E | |
| Country | Australia |
| State | New South Wales |
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| Population | |
| • Total | 7,741 (2016 census) |
| Postcode | 2478 |
Lennox Head is a seaside village in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia, situated on the stretch of coast between Byron Bay and Ballina in Ballina Shire local government area. It had a population of 7,741 in the 2016 Australian census.
It is on the lands of the Bundjalung people, who are the traditional owners of this region.
Captain Henry John Rous, on the survey ship Rainbow, named Lennox Head after his friend, Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond in 1828. From 1842, freed convicts who now worked as loggers, formed small colonies in the area which would eventually become the town.