The Clarence River Lighthouse stands tall on Pilot Hill, and nearby is a monument to acknowledge a landing here by Captain Matthew Flinders, a distinguished English navigator and cartographer, who was the first to circumnavigate Australia and identify it as a continent. Although there seems to be a lot of houses in Yamba, the town feels quite small and relaxed, very much a holiday village. |
Maclean calls itself 'the Scottish Town in Australia'. Many of its street signs are written in Gaelic as well as English. Australia's oldest free presbyterian church still holds services for the descendants of the early settlers, and there is a large Scottish cairn constructed from rocks from around Australia and Scotland in the Herb Stanford Memorial Park. |