Jervis Bay is a suburb of South Coast, New South
Wales and is about 147 kms south-southwest of
NSW's capital city of Sydney.
Jervis Bay is a 102-square-kilometre oceanic bay
and village on the south coast of New South Wales,
Australia, said to possess the whitest sand in the
world. A 70-square-kilometre area of land around
the southern headland of the bay is a territory of
the Commonwealth of Australia known as the
Jervis Bay Territory. The Australian Navy base,
HMAS Creswell, is in the Jervis Bay Territory
between Jervis Bay Village and Greenpatch Point.