The escarpment of the Illawarra lies silently above the South Coast, undisturbed. Climbing its folds of Hawkesbury Sandstone takes you from the sea to the summit in half an hour, lifting you high enough to watch the bays reclining in a row, stretching all the way down to the industrial stacks of Port Kembla.

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GEOLOGICAL PROFILE: An erosional escarpment of Triassic Hawkesbury Sandstone overlying softer Permian sedimentary strata.

DATA SET USED: ELVIS 1m Wollongong Digital Elevation Model