Avalon Beach is a suburb on the Barrenjoey Peninsula facing the Pacific Ocean, about 2km north of Newport Beach and about 1 km from Clareville. The name Avalon is said to have been coined by Arthur Small, an estate agent in the early 1920s after Avalon in Somerset, England. According to Celtic mythology Avalon was the final home of the heroes of Chivalry. Pittwater and the Northern Beaches area was the land of the Garigal and Cannalgal people, part of the Guringai Aboriginal group. Some traces...