Dunara, Heritage site in New South Wales, Australia

Dunara is a heritage-listed house in New South Wales that displays building methods from the early period of European settlement. The structure preserves construction techniques and materials typical of its era.

The house was built during the early years of European settlement and later officially registered as a heritage site. This recognition marks its importance in understanding colonial development in the region.

Dunara is also known as the birthplace of the poet Dorothea Mackellar, born there in 1885, daughter of physician Charles Kinnaird Mackellar and Marion Buckland. Her father helped establish the North Head Quarantine Station and was president of the NSW Board of Health from 1883.

Dunara is a privately owned residence and is not open to the public. It can be viewed from the street in Point Piper, but access to the property is not permitted. The site was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.

Dunara is also known as the birthplace of the poet Dorothea Mackellar, born there in 1885, daughter of physician Charles Kinnaird Mackellar and Marion Buckland. Her brother Keith, a second lieutenant in the Australian Volunteer Horse Squadron, was killed in South Africa on 11 July 1890.