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Botany Bay Entity
Bow Bowing Creek Entity
Bradleys Head Entity
Bringelly Creek Entity
Broken Bay Entity
Bronte Beach Entity
Browns Forest Entity
Buffalo Creek Entity
Bull Cave Entity
Bungan Head Entity
Bunkers Hill Entity
Cabbage Tree Bay Entity
Cabramatta Creek Entity
Calabash Creek Entity
Camp Cove Entity
Campbell's Cove Entity
Cape Banks Entity
Castle Rock Entity
Charity Point Entity
Chinamans Beach Entity
Chowder Bay Entity
Church Point Entity
Clontarf Point Entity
Coba Bay Entity
Cockle Bay Entity
Cockle Creek Entity
Colo River Entity
Cooks River Entity
Cowan Creek Entity
Crater Cove Entity
Cronulla Beach Entity
Cumberland Plain Entity
Curl Curl Lagoon Entity
Darling Island Entity
Darling Mills Creek Entity
Dawes Point Entity
Dee Why Beach Entity
Devlins Creek Entity
Dobroyd Head Entity
Duck Pond Camp Cove Entity
Duck River Entity
Dunbar Head Entity
Edwards Beach Entity
Lion Island Entity
Eucalyptus maculata Entity
Eucalyptus pilularis (Blackbutt) Entity
Eucalyptus saligna Entity
Fairlight Beach Entity
Farm Cove Entity
Ficus macrophylla Entity

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Botany Bay

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Large bay south of the city of Sydney, into which the Cooks and Georges rivers run.

Bow Bowing Creek

Creek running from near Glen Alpine in the Campbelltown area, north towards Bunbury Curran Creek and the Georges River near Macquarie Fields. The creek's course has greatly changed due to flood mitigation works.

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Bradleys Head

Headland on the north shore of Sydney Harbour, now part of the Sydney Harbour National Park.

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Bringelly Creek

Creek which flows west for 10 kilometres into the Nepean River near Bents Basin State Conservation area.

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Broken Bay

Large inlet of the Pacific Ocean located about 50 kilometres north of Port Jackson.

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Bronte Beach

Small beach between Tamarama and Clovelly.

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Browns Forest

Remnant of Blue Gum High Forest reserved for conservation at St Ives in the Ku-ring-gai local government area. Part of the Dalrymple-Hay Nature Reserve

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Buffalo Creek

Creek flowing into the Lane Cove River.

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Bull Cave

Cave near Campbelltown containing Aboriginal rock art depicting cattle with horns, painted by Tharawal people who had seen the escaped cattle at Camden before they were found by the British. Part of the Keith Longhurst Reserve.

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Bungan Head

Headland between Bungan Beach to the south and Newport Beach to the north.

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Bunkers Hill

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High ground at The Rocks, now under Gloucester Walk and the Sirius apartments, named for Eber Bunker, sea captain, who lived there when it was a prestigious address.

Cabbage Tree Bay

Protected north and west facing bay with a diversity of marine habitats and species.

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Cabramatta Creek

Creek that flows in a northerly direction under Camden Valley Way towards Hoxton Park, and its junction with Hinchinbrook Creek. Tributary of the Georges River.

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Calabash Creek

Creek running into the Hawkesbury River in Hornsby Shire.

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Camp Cove

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Small bay just inside South Head of Sydney Harbour, north of Watsons Bay.

Campbell's Cove

Small cove on western side of Sydney Cove between the Overseas Passenger Terminal and Dawes Point, named for the merchant Robert Campbell, who built his wharf and warehouses and an Indian-style bungalow there.

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Cape Banks

Headland in the Botany Bay National Park and site of the Cape Banks Aquatic Reserve.

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Castle Rock

Rock that gives its name to a beach tucked into the shores of Middle Harbour.

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Charity Point

Point on the north shore of the Parramatta River.

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Chinamans Beach

Beach on Middle Harbour accessible via McLean Crescent, Mosman. Named after Chinese market gardeners who originally  occupied the adjacent park.

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Chowder Bay

Bay on Sydney Harbour south of Georges Head. Named for the preferred food of the American whalers who used the area in the nineteenth century.

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Church Point

Point which derived its name from the small wooden church which remained there until its demolition in April 1932. In early records the land around the church is described as Chapel Point.

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Clontarf Point

Point on Middle Harbour about 1 km NW of Grotto Point.

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Coba Bay

Bay about 2 kilometres south west of Pelican Island.

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Cockle Bay

Small bay in Darling Harbour to the west of central Sydney. The bay was an important site for shipping and industry during the nineteenth century.

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Cockle Creek

Small waterway which originally flowed north into Cockle Bay from the Brickfield area.

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Colo River

Tributary of the Hawkesbury River that flows from the northern Blue Mountains down towards Lower Portland, near Windsor.

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Cooks River

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River that flows through south-west Sydney, starting at Graf Park, Yagoona, through to Botany Bay at Kyeemagh. The river was extensively polluted by industry and its course was changed to accommodate the runways of Sydney Airport.

Cowan Creek

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Tidal tributary of the Hawkesbury River, which is almost entirely within Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park.

Crater Cove

Bay in North Harbour at Balgowlah surrounded by Sydney Harbour National Park.

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Cronulla Beach

A coastal beach between the Meeries Reef and Blackwoods Beach about 4 kilometres south west of Kurnell. Thought to be a corruption of carranulla - native word for the myriad of tiny pink shells on the beach.

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Cumberland Plain

Expanse of flat land in the centre of the Sydney basin, which was covered with over 1,000 square kilometres of woodland and forest used and managed by Aboriginal people before Europeans arrived and began clearing it for agriculture and settlement. The plain is now the site of most of western Sydney.

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Curl Curl Lagoon

A lagoon through which Greendale Creek flows about one kilometre west of Dee Why Head.

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Darling Island

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Originally separated from the mainland by a mud flat, which was bridged by a causeway in the 1840s. From 1851, the Australian Steam Navigation Company occupied the island, steadily reclaiming land around the causeway, so that by the 1870s the island had become a peninsula. Ships were built and repaired here until the 1890s. The NSW government bought the site, and wharves and rail links were built to handle wheat and coal shipments. From 1951, the wharf known as 'Pyrmont' was the first landfall in Australia for hundreds of thousands of post-war immigrants. On the western side are two tall buildings constructed for the Navy between 1903 and 1912, the Ordnance Stores and the Royal Edward Victualling Yard.

Darling Mills Creek

Creek that is one of the two main tributaries of the Upper Parramatta River.

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Dawes Point

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Headland on the western side of Sydney Cove.

Dee Why Beach

Beach 18 kilometres north-east of Sydney city, part of the city's Northern Beaches.

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Devlins Creek

Creek in Epping that provided vital water for domestic and agricultural purposes for Aboriginal owners and then early European landholders.

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Dobroyd Head

Headland, part of Sydney Harbour National Park, which has examples of Aboriginal habitation, native coastal heath and pockets of subtropical rainforest.

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Duck Pond Camp Cove

Pond formed by a natural spring behind Camp Cove, now the site of a small park.

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Duck River

River which is a major southern tributary of the Parramatta River, 20 kilometres west of central Sydney.

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Dunbar Head

Headland at outer South Head, named for the ship wrecked there in 1857.

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Edwards Beach

Beach on the shore of Hunters Bay about 1 kilometre south west of Grotto Point.

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Lion Island

An island in Broken Bay about 3 kilometres south west of Box Head. Originally called Elliot Island, it was so named by Governor Phillip after a friend who fought on Gibraltar.

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Eucalyptus maculata

Spotted gum with straight powdery bark trunk which can grow to 45 metres.

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Eucalyptus pilularis (Blackbutt)

A large tree, commonly known as blackbutt, it is identified by the stocking of rough bark, to about halfway up the trunk, above this is white smooth bark.

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Eucalyptus saligna

Sydney blue gum is a large flowering hardwood tree which can grow to 63 metres high.

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Fairlight Beach

Beach south of Fairlight on North Harbour.

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Farm Cove

Shallow bay on the southern shore of Sydney Harbour, east of Sydney Cove. The flat land nearby was used by Aboriginal people as an initiation ground, and later became the first farm for the European colony.

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Ficus macrophylla

Tree known as the Moreton Bay Fig or Australian banyan that is a native of most of the eastern coast of Australia.

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