{{Short description|Locality in eastern Sydney, NSW, Australia}} {{Use Australian English|date=June 2020}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2021}} thumb|Ben Buckler seen from the Bondi Beach '''Ben Buckler''' is an urban locality in the eastern suburbs of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is part of the suburb of North Bondi in the Waverley Council local government area.<ref>{{cite book |editor=Pollon, Frances |title=The Book of Sydney Suburbs |publisher=Angus & Robertson Publishers |year=1990 |location=Australia |isbn=0-207-14495-8 }}</ref> It is sometimes referred to simply as "the northern headland of Bondi Bay."<ref name="whowasben">{{Cite web|url=http://www.waverley.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/37481/Ben_Buckler.pdf|title=Who was Ben Buckler?|date=2012|publisher=Waverley Council|access-date=3 March 2016|archive-date=9 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140309073343/http://www.waverley.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/37481/Ben_Buckler.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Ben Buckler is the location of the heritage-listed Ben Buckler Gun Battery, which was built in 1892 and subsequently buried; it was later excavated by the NSW Water Board and then reburied.<ref name=nswshr-1742>{{cite NSW SHR|5056455|Ben Buckler Gun Battery 1893, 9.2 Disappearing Gun|hr=01742|fn=H05/00100/1|access-date=2 June 2018}}</ref><ref name=waverley>{{cite web |url=http://www.waverley.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0012/3342/HeritagePolicy.pdf |title=Defence in Waverley |work=Waverley Heritage Policy |publisher=Waverley Council |date=September 2007 |access-date=16 September 2017 |page=15 |archive-date=27 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170327091525/http://www.waverley.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0012/3342/HeritagePolicy.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> It is also the location of the heritage-listed Bondi Sewer Vent.<ref name=nswshr-1637>{{cite NSW SHR|5053876|Sewer Vent (Ben Buckler)|hr=01637|access-date=2 June 2018}}</ref>

The surfing media refer to ocean waves breaking off the adjacent coast as 'Ben Buckler' or "the Buckler".<ref>{{cite web | title=Notes from a Swell to Remember &#124; Swellnet Analysis &#124; Swellnet | url=https://www.swellnet.com/news/swellnet-analysis/2025/04/02/notes-swell-remember }}</ref> For instance: ''The ’Buckler, as its affectionately known, has a rep for being a bit of a burger, but if you paddle deep enough it tosses up a challenging drop, and roaring left wall that’s been ridden in the fifteen-foot-plus realm''<ref>{{cite web | title=Hung-Up at Ben Buckler in a Big Sydney Swell | date=18 June 2024 | url=https://tracksmag.com.au/hung-up-at-ben-buckler-in-a-big-sydney-swell }}</ref>

== Etymology == The first recorded use of the name was in 1831, when a land grant to Richard Hurd at North Bondi was described as being "...to a point called Ben Buckler."<ref name="whowasben" /> Common theories about its name were set out in a research note issued by Waverley Council Library:<ref name="whowasben" /> * It is named after a convict, Benjamin Buckler or Ben Buckley, who lived locally with the Aboriginal people in 1810; * A bushranger named Ben Buckley lived in a cave in the rocks at the northern end of Bondi Beach; * Obed West (1807–1891) claimed that it was a corruption of an Aboriginal word.

== Gallery == <gallery> File:Robert Vere Scott Ben Buckler Bondi.jpg|Robert Vere Scott (c.1905) ''Ben Buckler, Bondi'', made using a Kodak Panoram camera, exposed to look as if taken by moonlight, but actually taken in daylight. Silver gelatin print 23.3 h x 56.9 w cm. National Gallery of Australia, Purchased 2012, NGA 2012.749 File:NORTH BONDY.jpg|Ben Buckler at night File:Golf cours overlooking bondi beach and suburb.jpg|Golf course File:Bondi,4 sydneynsw panorama.jpg|The Ben Buckler coastline File:Ben Buckler adjacent to North Bondi beach.jpg|Ben Buckler, from the south. The Bondi Sewer Vent can be seen behind the beach area. </gallery>

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