 Governor Macquarie is also associated with the site as he commissioned the erection of the earliest known sandstone tower building in Australia, the Macquarie Watchtower.The place is also associated with French explorers under the command of Comte de Laperouse who were the first Europeans to stay in the place for an extended period of 6 weeks.The Kurnell peninsula has an important association with one of the colony's noted entrepreneurs and politicians, Thomas Holt.