Catalina Park is a disused motor racing venue, located at Katoomba, in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia, and is recognised as an Aboriginal Place due to the long association of the local Gundungarra and Darug clans to the area.
[3][5] Originally used for top level motorsport including touring car, open wheeler, motorcycle and sidecar racing in the 1960s.
In the 1970s the circuit was used for Rallycross, where the cars would use half the bitumen track and a dirt infield section with jumps, like Motocross.
The Gully forms the headwaters of the Katoomba Falls Creek and is therefore part of the Warragamba Catchment area that provides Sydney’s water.
Settlement at the foot of the mountains forced many Gundungurra and Darug people to resettle permanently in the Gully well before 1950.
The shell of a Catalina PBY-5 flying boat was shipped up on a truck and installed in the middle of the lake, giving the area its informal name.
The Aboriginal Place declaration was warmly welcomed by the Gundungurra and Darug traditional owners and was marked by Indigenous and non-Indigenous alike with an official celebration in November 2002.