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New South Wales fishing spots

93 spots across Sydney Harbour, Sydney East & Botany, Sydney Northern Beaches, Sutherland & Port Hacking, Central Coast, Newcastle & Lake Macquarie, Port Stephens & Hunter, and Illawarra, grouped by region.

Sydney Harbour

13 spots

Balmoral Beach (Rocky Point / Hunters Bay)

Balmoral is a sheltered Middle Harbour beach split in two by Rocky Point Island, with Edwards Beach to the north and Hunters Bay washing ...

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Bottle and Glass Point (Nielsen Park, Vaucluse)

Bottle and Glass Point is the rocky sandstone elbow at the eastern end of Nielsen Park, where Shark Beach gives way to the columns the ha...

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Bradleys Head is a sandstone headland jutting off Mosman's foreshore between Athol Bay and Taylors Bay, sitting close to the main shippin...

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Cabarita Park (Parramatta River)

Cabarita Park sits on the southern Parramatta River at a bend where a sandy swimming beach is bookended by rock, with a ferry wharf and m...

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Camp Cove (Watsons Bay)

Camp Cove is a small north-facing sand beach tucked inside South Head, with a rocky point at each end — Green Point near the Watsons Bay ...

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Clifton Gardens (Chowder Bay)

Clifton Gardens is the rare Sydney Harbour spot that works for a family picnic and a serious squid session on the same afternoon. The wha...

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Hornby Lighthouse / South Head

South Head is the southern jaw of the harbour mouth, and the rock platforms below Hornby Lighthouse drop straight into deep, current-swep...

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Kissing Point Park (Parramatta River)

Kissing Point Park sits on the northern bank of the Parramatta River at Putney, a grassy reserve wrapped around a RiverCat wharf, a boat ...

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Middle Head is the rock platform jutting into Sydney Harbour from the Mosman side, sitting just inside the heads where the harbour opens ...

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Mrs Macquaries Point / Chair

Mrs Macquaries Point is the sandstone toe of The Domain, jutting into Farm Cove and Woolloomooloo Bay at the northeastern edge of the Roy...

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Parsley Bay (Vaucluse)

Parsley Bay is a narrow, sheltered inlet on the eastern side of Sydney Harbour, with a small jetty reaching out past the swimming enclosu...

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Rose Bay (wharf and flats)

Rose Bay is the biggest sand basin on the south side of Sydney Harbour, and Lyne Park puts you straight onto it from the foreshore. The w...

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Washaway Beach (North Harbour)

Washaway is a pocket of white sand at the foot of Dobroyd Head, the first beach north of Grotto Point inside Sydney Harbour National Park...

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Sydney East & Botany

9 spots

Ben Buckler (North Bondi)

Ben Buckler is the rock platform under the northern headland of Bondi Beach, where the sandstone drops into deep, washy water that has be...

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Brighton-Le-Sands / Dolls Point (Lady Robinsons Beach)

Brighton-Le-Sands

Lady Robinsons Beach is the long western shoulder of Botany Bay, running from the Cooks River mouth down past Brighton-Le-Sands to Dolls ...

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Browns Rock (La Perouse)

Browns Rock is an unfenced shelf of rock and concrete tucked around the corner of Congwong Bay, on the Botany Bay side of the La Perouse ...

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Captain Cook Bridge (Georges River)

Captain Cook Bridge spans the mouth of the Georges River between Sans Souci and Taren Point, and the structure does the heavy lifting — a...

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Clovelly / Gordons Bay

Clovelly and Gordons Bay are two sheltered rocky bays a few minutes apart on the eastern suburbs coast, and both sit inside the Bronte-Co...

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Frenchmans Bay / Congwong (La Perouse)

The La Perouse beaches — Frenchmans Bay, Congwong and Little Congwong — sit on the northern shoulder of Botany Bay, tucked behind the hea...

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Kurnell (Silver Beach groynes)

A line of rockwall groynes marches along the southern shore of Botany Bay at Silver Beach, built to hold the sand spit together after ero...

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Malabar (Long Bay ledges)

Long Bay is the deep notch in the Malabar coastline, and its inner northern ledges sit tucked inside the bay where the open Tasman swell ...

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Yarra Bay (Phillip Bay)

Yarra Bay sits on the northern shore of Botany Bay in Phillip Bay, a calm sandy half-moon bookended by Yarra Point to the south and Bumbo...

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Sydney Northern Beaches

10 spots

Barrenjoey Headland (Palm Beach)

Barrenjoey Headland is the rugged rock platform at the very northern tip of the Northern Beaches peninsula, where the ocean swell meets t...

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Collaroy is a long, open surf beach that curves south to the rock baths below Long Reef headland, and the whole stretch is built on the s...

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Dee Why is a kilometre of open Sydney surf beach running from the rockpool and surf club in the south to the Dee Why Lagoon entrance in t...

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Long Reef Rock Platform

Long Reef is the big low rock platform spread off the headland between Collaroy and Dee Why, the most prominent piece of land-based reef ...

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Manly North Harbour (Fairlight)

Manly North Harbour is the sheltered inner shoreline running from Fairlight Beach around to North Harbour Reserve and Forty Baskets — a s...

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Mona Vale Headland (Bongin Bongin)

Mona Vale Headland is the broad sandstone platform that splits Mona Vale Beach from Basin Beach, wrapping around the sheltered notch the ...

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Narrabeen Lagoon Entrance

Narrabeen Lagoon drains to the sea through a single narrow throat under the Ocean Street bridge at North Narrabeen, and that one deep cha...

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Palm Beach Wharf (Pittwater)

Palm Beach Public Wharf sits at Pittwater Park, on the sheltered estuary side of the Barrenjoey spit, and it's the most accessible piece ...

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Roseville Bridge (Middle Harbour)

Roseville Bridge marks the top of Middle Harbour's navigable estuary, where the harbour narrows into a quiet, meandering arm fringed by G...

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The Spit (Middle Harbour)

The Spit sits where Middle Harbour pinches into a narrow channel under the 1958 bascule bridge, and that pinch point is the whole appeal....

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Sutherland & Port Hacking

12 spots

Bass & Flinders Point / Salmon Haul (Cronulla)

Bass & Flinders Point is the southern tip of the Cronulla peninsula, a sandstone platform that drops straight into the Port Hacking entra...

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Bonnie Vale (Bundeena)

Bonnie Vale sits on the sheltered Port Hacking side of Bundeena, inside Royal National Park, where Cabbage Tree Basin drains out past Dee...

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Bundeena Wharf is the public jetty on the Royal National Park side of Port Hacking, where the Cronulla ferry pulls in beside Horderns Bea...

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Cronulla Beach & The Alley

Cronulla Beach curves around the sheltered southern hook of Bate Bay, with the surf club, the rock pool and the walking path strung along...

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Darook Park (Cronulla)

Darook Park is the quiet foreshore on the eastern shore of Gunnamatta Bay, the sheltered arm that opens off the Port Hacking estuary behi...

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Garie Beach Headlands (Royal National Park)

Royal National Park

Garie Beach sits toward the southern end of the Royal National Park, where the coast steepens into cliff and cove. Two low rock platforms...

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Gunnamatta Bay Baths / Gunnamatta Park (Cronulla)

Gunnamatta Bay is the sheltered Port Hacking inlet on the western edge of Cronulla, and the netted tidal baths, established in 1915 and r...

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Jibbon Beach (Bundeena)

Jibbon is the long crescent of sand at the eastern end of Bundeena, looking north across the mouth of Port Hacking with Jibbon Point and ...

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Lilli Pilli Point & Baths

Lilli Pilli Point sits on the north shore of the Port Hacking estuary, and its single best feature is the depth that sidles in close to t...

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Swallow Rock Reserve (Grays Point)

Swallow Rock is the hinge where Port Hacking narrows into the Hacking River, and the reserve sits right on that turn at Grays Point. The ...

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Wally's Wharf (Dolans Bay)

Wally's Wharf is a council floating pontoon and double boat ramp tucked into a quiet residential arm of Burraneer Bay, on the north shore...

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Wattamolla (Royal National Park)

Royal National Park

Wattamolla is a rare two-in-one spot — a sheltered cove and lagoon tucked behind the surf, with a run of ocean rock ledges either side of...

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Central Coast

16 spots

Avoca Lake is a 70-hectare back-dune lagoon tucked behind Avoca Beach, the kind of shallow, sheltered estuary that rewards anyone willing...

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Avoca Point is the cluster of rock ledges at the southern headland of Avoca Beach, and it carries more fishing history than its size sugg...

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Bateau Bay is a Central Coast rock-fishing name that travelled by word of mouth long before it appeared in any guide. The bay is rimmed w...

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Box Head is the headland that marks the northern entrance to Broken Bay, looking straight across the water to Barrenjoey and Lion Island....

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Brooklyn (Hawkesbury River)

Brooklyn sits at the bottom of the Hawkesbury where the river runs wide, deep and fast, and the rail bridge is the structure that defines...

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Budgewoi Lake is the middle of the three Tuggerah Lakes — a shallow, perched estuary bounded by Toukley, Budgewoi, Buff Point and Gorokan...

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Ettalong Beach sits at the mouth of Brisbane Water, where the estuary funnels out past Box Head into Broken Bay. It is a sheltered, mostl...

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Norah Head is the prominent headland a short drive north-east of The Entrance, and the rock platform spreading out below the 1903 lightho...

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Patonga (Hawkesbury River)

Patonga sits on a sandy spit where Patonga Creek meets the Hawkesbury at Broken Bay, with a calm beach onto Brisk Bay on one side and the...

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Pearl Beach is a short, sheltered ocean beach tucked on the western side of Broken Bay, between Patonga and Umina, looking out toward the...

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Rip Bridge (Brisbane Water)

The Rip Bridge carries Maitland Bay Drive across the narrowest pinch in Brisbane Water, where the whole estuary funnels between Booker Ba...

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Terrigal Haven / The Skillion

The rock shelf on the north side of Terrigal Haven, tucked beneath the green wedge of The Skillion, is one of the most worked ledges on t...

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The Entrance Channel (Tuggerah Lake)

The Entrance Channel is the narrow tidal throat that drains Tuggerah Lake to the ocean, and that funnel of moving water is exactly why it...

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Toukley Bridge (Wallarah Point)

Toukley Bridge carries Main Road over the narrow channel where Tuggerah Lake meets Budgewoi Lake, and that pinch in the water is the whol...

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Woy Woy Channel

Woy Woy Channel is the deep-water spine of Brisbane Water, running past the township and opening out towards Ettalong and the Rip. The br...

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Wybung Head (Munmorah)

Wybung Head is the standout rock-fishing headland at the northern end of the Central Coast, sitting inside Munmorah State Conservation Ar...

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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie

12 spots

Belmont Foreshore & Wharf

Belmont Foreshore sits on the eastern shore of Lake Macquarie, the largest coastal saltwater lake in Australia, and it gives land-based a...

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Catherine Hill Bay Headland & Jetty

Catherine Hill Bay

Catherine Hill Bay is a heritage coal-mining village at the southern end of Lake Macquarie, with rock headlands bracketing a patrolled be...

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Caves Beach / Swansea Heads Rock Platform

The sandstone headlands south of the Swansea entrance are best known for the sea caves carved into their base, but the ledges and washes ...

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Horseshoe Beach / Newcastle Harbour

Horseshoe Beach is the calm pocket of harbour foreshore tucked behind Nobbys, where the sand flats off the base of the south breakwall sh...

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Marks Point (The Drop Over)

Marks Point sits on the eastern foreshore of Lake Macquarie where the shallow sand flats and weed beds drop away into the deeper Swansea ...

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Merewether Beach & Rock Platforms

Merewether is two spots in one — a long, celebrated surf beach and the dark rock platforms that run south from the ocean baths toward Gle...

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Nobbys Breakwall (Newcastle)

Nobbys Breakwall is the long rock wall, known to locals as Macquarie Pier, running roughly a kilometre east from Nobbys Head along the so...

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Pelican Foreshore

Pelican Foreshore is a sheltered lake flat on Lakeview Parade, sitting between Swansea and Belmont where Lake Macquarie funnels down towa...

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Redhead is a long open surf beach in the City of Lake Macquarie, about 16km south of Newcastle, running roughly 11km south from the red b...

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Stockton Breakwall (Newcastle)

Stockton Breakwall is the northern wall of the Newcastle Harbour entrance, the rock arm that funnels every tide in and out of the Hunter ...

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Swansea Bridge spans the narrow throat of the Swansea Channel, the single saltwater connection between Lake Macquarie and the Tasman Sea....

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Swansea Channel Breakwall (Lucy's Wall)

Lucy's Wall is the southern breakwall at the Lake Macquarie entrance, running almost square to the shore a few hundred metres inside Swan...

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Port Stephens & Hunter

9 spots

Bennetts Beach is the long surf beach at Hawks Nest — MidCoast Council puts it at 14.3 km, running north from Yacaaba Headland to Dark Po...

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Birubi Beach (Stockton Bight)

Birubi Beach is the northern bookend of Stockton Bight — about 30 km of open surf that runs unbroken from Anna Bay down to the Stockton b...

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Fingal Spit is the long tongue of sand that runs north-east off Fingal Beach toward Point Stephens and Fingal Island, and it is one of th...

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Little Beach (Nelson Bay)

Little Beach is the sheltered, shallow corner of Nelson Bay between Fly Point and Nelson Head, and it earns its keep as the spot you can ...

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Moira Parade Wharf

Moira Parade Wharf sits on the Hawks Nest foreshore of the Myall River, a short cast across from Tea Gardens and the Singing Bridge. It i...

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Nelson Bay Breakwall

The breakwall at the end of Teramby Road, wrapping the d'Albora Marina, is the most fished piece of land in Port Stephens — and it earns ...

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Shoal Bay Wharf

Shoal Bay Wharf sits on the northern shore of Port Stephens, right at the broad entrance where the bay opens to the sea, and that geograp...

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Singing Bridge (Myall River)

The Singing Bridge is the 304-metre road crossing of the Myall River between Tea Gardens and Hawks Nest — a concrete box girder span open...

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Yacaaba Headland

Yacaaba is the steep rock headland on the Hawks Nest side of the Port Stephens entrance, where the harbour empties past a steep bushland-...

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Illawarra

12 spots

Bass Point is a 4km basalt promontory jutting off Shell Cove, just south of Shellharbour Village and about 25km south of Wollongong, and ...

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Bellambi Boat Harbour Breakwall

Bellambi Boat Harbour sits at the southern end of Bellambi Beach, where a rock breakwall shelters a council boat ramp and the small harbo...

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Bombo Beach is a 1.2km surf beach running between central Kiama and Kiama Downs, with a rock point at each end and the basalt columns of ...

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Coalcliff Rock Platform

Coalcliff is a small beach built around the old Coalcliff colliery jetty, which storms wrecked repeatedly between 1878 and 1904 before it...

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Kiama Harbour / Blowhole Point

Two spots share one car park here, and they fish nothing alike. Kiama Harbour — the Robertson Basin, dug out in the 1870s and walled in s...

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Lake Illawarra Entrance (Windang)

The Windang entrance is where Lake Illawarra empties into the sea, and the channel under Windang Bridge funnels every fish moving between...

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Minnamurra River

The Minnamurra is a small, shallow Illawarra estuary that punches above its size — the name is usually translated as "plenty of fish", an...

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Port Kembla Breakwall

Port Kembla's harbour entrance is guarded by two long rock walls — NSW Ports calls them the Eastern Breakwater and the Northern Breakwate...

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Red Point (Hill 60)

Red Point is the rocky headland at Hill 60, just south of Port Kembla harbour, and it is one of the Illawarra's most productive land-base...

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Shellharbour Boat Harbour

Shellharbour Boat Harbour is the old stone-walled harbour at the foot of Addison Street in Shellharbour Village — narrow beach, bobbing t...

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Stanwell Park Beach

Stanwell Park is the first proper surf beach south of the Royal National Park, tucked below Bald Hill where the hang gliders launch. It's...

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Wollongong Harbour (Belmore Basin)

Belmore Basin is the Victorian-era inner harbour tucked under Flagstaff Point, ringed by intact stone seawalls and protected by two break...

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