Duffys Forest, New South Wales

The Sydney Japanese International School (abbreviated as SJIS, Japanese: シドニー日本人国際学校, romanized: Shidonī Nihonjin Kokusai Gakkō), formerly known in English as the Sydney Japanese School, and in Japanese as シドニー日本人学校 Shidonī Nihonjin Gakkō, is an independent co-educational Nihonjin gakkō (Japanese international) primary and secondary day school, located in Terrey Hills within the Northern Beaches Council area of Sydney, Australia.The school serves elementary and junior high school levels, from Year K to Year 9. The school accepts non-Japanese students, offering them international classes. SJIS is the only Japanese international school in the world to have an English-language division.The international classes follow the New South Wales curriculum, while there is also a Japanese division following the Japanese curriculum. Tetsuo Mizukami (水上 徹男 Mizukami Tetsuo), author of The Sojourner Community: Japanese Migration and Residency in Australia, wrote in 2007 that the international classes are "so popular" that Australian parents have requested that the SJIS introduce them at the high school level.

Northern Beaches Christian School is an independent non-denominational Christian co-educational primary and secondary day school, located in Terrey Hills, Sydney, Australia. Established in 1981, the school provides a general and religious education for approximately 1,200 students from Kindergarten to Year 12. The school is affiliated with Macquarie University.

Waratah Park is a heritage-listed former Aboriginal land and fauna sanctuary and now Aboriginal title claim at 13 Namba Road, Duffys Forest in the Northern Beaches Council local government area of New South Wales, Australia. It is also known for serving as the fictional Waratah National Park, the filming location for the Australian television series Skippy the Bush Kangaroo (produced from 1967 to 1969), when the area was still undeveloped Crown land. After the series ended, the Crown land remained mostly undeveloped, with the government granting management of the area to a series of operators until August 2014, when the government passed full ownership of the land to the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 27 February 2015.

German International School Sydney is a German international school in Terrey Hills, Sydney, New South Wales.It serves from Preschool until IBDP Senior Secondary (Sekundarstufe II).

Terrey Hills is a suburb of Northern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia 25 kilometres north of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of Northern Beaches Council. It is part of the Forest District and Northern Beaches region.Terrey Hills is a very leafy suburb and in some areas semi-rural, with many people boarding their horses in the area. Terrey Hills owes its name to the two original land holders Samuel Hills and Obediah James Terrey. Obediah Terrey acquired 640 acres (2.6 km2) in 1881 and Samuel Hills owned 100 acres (0.40 km2) nearby.The area was used by Indigenous people prior to European settlement, and rock carvings exist in some places. One set of carvings is located near Larool Road and depicts hunting scenes with kangaroos, human figures and footprints. Terrey Hills Post Office opened on 17 June 1935.

Ku-ring-gai Wildflower Garden is a 123-hectare (300-acre) botanical garden in St Ives, in the northern suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Bobbin Head is a point on Cowan Creek in the north of the suburb of North Turramurra, New South Wales, Australia. It is a "near-urban" part of Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park. Bobbin Head is easily reached by taking Bobbin Head Road through North Turramurra or Kuringai Chase Road, Mount Colah near Hornsby. Facilities at Bobbin Head include a marina, picnic areas with gas barbecues, a licensed restaurant and kiosk at the marina, small boat hire at the marina, and a lunch-time restaurant in what used to be the Bobbin Head Inn, which also contains a National Parks information centre. The area also contains many fire trails and a mangrove boardwalk. Aboriginal engravings can be observed along some of the bushwalk trails. There is also a discovery trail along the waterfront inside the marina that chronicles the history of the area.

Bare Creek is a watercourse that is part of the Middle Harbour catchment of Sydney Harbour that is located in the northern beaches region of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Covenant Christian School is an independent non-denominational Christian co-educational early learning, primary and secondary day school, located in Belrose on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The school was established in 1978 and delivers a general and religious education to approximately 850 children from early learning through Kindergarten to Year 12. The school is a member of Christian Education National (formerly Christian Parents Controlled Schools). The school is also a member of the Christian Schools Sporting Association (CSSA) and the Combined Independent Schools (CIS).

Akuna Bay is an urban place in Sydney, Australia. Akuna Bay is located 38 kilometres (24 mi) north of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Northern Beaches Council. Akuna Bay sits in the Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park and takes its name from the bay on Coal and Candle Creek. It can be accessed by a marina on the bay or by Liberator General San Martin Drive.

Ku-ring-gai High School (abbreviated as KHS), formerly Ku-ring-gai Creative Arts High School (1996–2016), is a government-funded co-educational comprehensive and specialist secondary day school with a speciality in creative and performing arts. The school is located in North Turramurra, on the Upper North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The school is set on 10 hectares (25 acres) and located adjacent to the Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park.

The Akuna Bay is a bay within Broken Bay, located in the Northern Beaches Council local government area in the Northern Suburbs of Sydney, Australia. The bay is fed by Coal and Candle Creek, with its land boundaries encased within the Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park. A large marina in located within the bay. The urban locality of Akuna Bay is located at the southern boundary of the bay.Akuna is an Aboriginal word meaning "to follow".