CARRINGTON has been shaped, in no small part, for ships - and by ships.
Before the intervention of the British arrivals, this area was a swampy island, known as Onebygamba by the First Nations people. On an early colonial map, from 1801, it was called Chapman Island then Bullock Island. In 1887, it was proclaimed as the Municipality of Carrington, named after the New South Wales governor, Lord Carrington.
