Lower North Shore encompasses suburbs belonging to the local government areas of Municipality of Mosman, City of Willoughby, Municipality of Lane Cove, and North Sydney Council.
The Lower North Shore, in this narrow sense, roughly corresponds with the Parish of Willoughby, a cadastral unit used for land title purposes.
When the regional name is used in a wider sense, the suburbs of Hunters Hill, Gladesville, Woolwich and Huntleys Point, which lie west of the Lane Cove River, are sometimes also considered part of the Lower North Shore,[1] although more often the term North Shore applies to the suburbs between Middle Harbour and the Lane Cove River.
The Lower North Shore suburbs adjacent to the water are Longueville, Northwood, Neutral Bay, Greenwich, Waverton, Wollstonecraft, Mosman, Cremorne, Lane Cove, Lavender Bay, McMahons Point, Milsons Point, Cammeray, North Sydney, Chatswood, Artarmon, Willoughby, Crows Nest, Riverview, Castlecrag, and Northbridge.
Major waterways in the region include Port Jackson, the Lane Cove River, the Parramatta River, Middle Harbour and the many creek systems that branch out from these main aquatic lifelines.