Bennelong Northside Orienteers History

Bennelong Occasional Orienteers (BOO) was the first club formed in Australia specifically for orienteering ...

"In December 1971, in the lead-up to the first Australia-NZ Orienteering Challenge, a practice event was held at Mt Hay in the Blue Mountains. Two prominent athletes, Dave Lotty and Rod Dominish, saw the possibility of the sport developing ... a couple of weeks later Australia's first specialist orienteering club, Bennelong Occasional Orienteers, was formed with Rod as President and Dave as Secretary."

~ The Australian Orienteer (April/May 1986)

The map from those first events, shown below, represents the beginning of orienteering in NSW ... and the formation of Bennelong Occasional Orienteers (BOO) as the first orieinteering club in Australia.