title: Pinny Beach, New South Wales
text: # Pinny Beach, New South Wales
  
  Pinny Beach is a gazetted suburb of the City of Lake Macquarie. It was created on 5 May 2006 following amendments to the boundaries of surrounding suburbs. It is located on the Swansea Peninsula and is to the east of Lake Macquarie, south of the Pacific Ocean entrance channel at Swansea in New South Wales, Australia. It is part of the City of Lake Macquarie local government area.
  
  ## History
  
  The name Pinny Beach has a direct relationship to the topographic feature designated as Pinny Beach This suburb is adjacent to the suburbs of Caves Beach to the northeast and Murrays Beach to the west where a section of the Pacific Highway forms the boundary.
  
  The Aboriginal people, in this area, the Awabakal, were the first people of this land.
  
  Pinny Beach was once better known as the "windswept heath of Pincushion Plain". It was named after the pincushion-shaped shrubs with sharp needle-like leaves.
  
  ## Heritage listings
  
  Pinny Beach has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:
  
  * No. 208 Radar Station RAAF
  