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Middle Head Entity
Miles Gully Entity
Mobbs Hill Entity
Mooney Mooney Point Entity
Morrisons Bay Entity
Mosman Bay Entity
Mount Hunter Entity
Mount Hunter Rivulet Entity
Mount Rennie Entity
Mrs Macquarie's Point Entity
Mullet Creek Entity
Narrabeen Creek Entity
Narrabeen Lagoon Entity
Nepean River Entity
Oatley Bay Entity
Observatory Hill Entity
Old Woman's Bonnet Entity
Parramatta River Entity
Parriwi Point Entity
Parsley Bay Entity
Peach Tree Bay Entity
Peats Bight Entity
Peats Crater Entity
Peter Meadows Creek Entity
Phar Lap Entity
Pine Point Entity
Pittosporum undulatum Entity
Ponds Creek Entity
Port Hacking Entity
Port Jackson Entity
Poverty Point Entity
Powder Hulk Bay Entity
Powells Creek Entity
Prospect Hill Entity
Pyrmont Bay Entity
Raven Point Entity
Reef Beach Entity
Richardson's Lookout Entity
Richmond Hill Entity
Ridge Creek Entity
Robertsons Point Entity
Rozelle Bay Entity
Scylla Bay Entity
Sheas Creek Entity
Shelly Beach Manly Entity
Shipwrights Bay Entity
Sickles Creek Entity
Simmons Point Entity
Smiths Creek Entity
South Creek Entity

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Middle Head

Headland in Sydney Harbour, now part of the Sydney Harbour National Park, which from 1806 to the 1960s contained important defensive fortifications.

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Miles Gully

Small valley at Brookvale. Old Pittwater Road passed through the Brookvale valley via Miles Gully and was made official by Gazette Notice on 8 November 1861

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Mobbs Hill

Small hill and trig station about 4 kilometres north east of Rydalmere railway station.

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Mooney Mooney Point

Point in the Hawkesbury River about 1 kilometre north of Mooney Mooney township.

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Morrisons Bay

Bay on Parramatta River between Tennyson Point and Putney.

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Mosman Bay

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Sheltered bay on Sydney's north shore, named for Archibald Mosman, whaler. Earlier known as Great Sirius Cove after the HMS Sirius that was careened there in 1789.

Mount Hunter

Hill 70 kilometres southwest of central Sydney, named for John Hunter.

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Mount Hunter Rivulet

Watercourse about 17 kilometres long which rises about 3 kilometres south west of Mount Hunter and flows generally north east into the Nepean River.

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Mount Rennie

Small sandy knoll in Moore Park, site of the "Mount Rennie outrage" of 1886. Now part of Moore Park Golf Course.

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Mrs Macquarie's Point

Peninsula in Sydney Harbour between Garden Island and Bennelong Point, named for Elizabeth Macquarie who enjoyed the panoramic views.

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Mullet Creek

Short creek which flows south east into Narrabeen Lakes.

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Narrabeen Creek

Watercourse about 4 kilometres long flowing south east into Mullet Creek.

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Narrabeen Lagoon

Lagoon system behind Sydney's northern beaches.

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Nepean River

River that rises in the southern highlands of New South Wales and curls round greater Sydney, becoming the Hawkesbury River near Yarramundi. Several dams on the river and its tributaries help supply water for Sydney.

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Oatley Bay

Bay off the Georges River about 3 kilometres west of Blakehurst.

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Observatory Hill

Hill at the top of The Rocks, west of Sydney Cove, which is the highest point overlooking Port Jackson. With commanding views both east and west, it was the site of one of Sydney's first windmills from 1796 before being replaced with a fort in 1803. By 1849 an observatory had also been constructed which can still be visited.

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Old Woman's Bonnet

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Large rock formation with a cave in it on the eastern bank of the Woronora River in southern Sydney.

Parramatta River

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Major tributary of Sydney Harbour, which flows east from Blacktown Creek to meet Port Jackson between Greenwich and Birchgrove. The river is tidal to Charles Street Weir at Parramatta, 30 kilometres from Sydney Heads.

Parriwi Point

Headland on Middle Harbour at The Spit.

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Parsley Bay

Narrow bay in the eastern suburbs with parkland and suspension bridge that is thought to have been named after the profusion of a native plant resembling parsley growing there.

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Peach Tree Bay

Bay within Middle Harbour about 1 kilometre north east of Fig Tree Point.

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Peats Bight

Small bay on the southern side of the Hawkesbury River west of Brooklyn.

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Peats Crater

Amphitheatre formed by an extinct volcano two kilometres west of Kangaroo Point near Brooklyn.

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Peter Meadows Creek

Watercourse about 7.5 kilometres long, flowing generally north east into the Georges River. It rises about 3 kilometres east of Campbelltown A Trig Station.

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Phar Lap

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Champion racehorse, trained by Sydney trainer Harry Telford.

Pine Point

Small headland about 1 kilometre west of the Spit bridge.

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Pittosporum undulatum

Tree with wavy leaf edges, white blooms and woody orange fruits that grows to 15m.

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Ponds Creek

Small creek at Carlingford which joins Hunts Creek.

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Port Hacking

Estuary through which flows the Hacking River on the southern outskirts of Sydney.

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Port Jackson

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Drowned river valley that forms Sydney Harbour and includes North Harbour and Middle Harbour. Long inhabited by the Gadigal, Cammeraygal, Wangal and Eora people, Port Jackson was renamed by Captain Cook in 1770, although his ship did not enter the Heads.

Poverty Point

The north-east corner of Pitt and Park Streets in the city where theatre people gathered to network and to find work.

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Powder Hulk Bay

Bay in Middle Harbour west of Seaforth.

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Powells Creek

Waterway from Strathfield through Homebush and Bicentennial Park to Homebush Bay on the Parramatta River.

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Prospect Hill

Small hill south of Blacktown which affords views of the Cumberland Plain.

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Pyrmont Bay

Bay on the west side of Darling Harbour, adjacent to the Australian National Maritime Museum

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Raven Point

Peninsula on the Parramatta River at the southern end of the suburb of Tennyson Point. Named for William Raven.

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Reef Beach

Beach within Sydney Harbour National Park which contains an Aboriginal midden.

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Richardson's Lookout

Lookout about 1 kilometre east of Riverside Park and about 1 kilometre west of Tempe.

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Richmond Hill

Hill on Western Bank of Hawkesbury River about 1.6 kilometres south west of North Richmond named by Governor Arthur Phillip in July 1789 near the termination of his journey by boat up the Hawkesbury River.

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Ridge Creek

Creek on the southern boundary of St Ives, a tributary of Rocky Creek. Also known as High Ridge Creek.

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Robertsons Point

Tip of the headland between Shell Cove and Mosman Bay on Sydney's north shore.

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Rozelle Bay

Small bay east of Blackwattle Bay in Sydney Harbour, surrounded by Rozelle, Annandale and Glebe. Much of the natural shoreline of the bay has been extended by land reclaimed for maritime use.

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Scylla Bay

Bay on the southern shore of the Georges Rives at Como, much of which was reclaimed for playing fields during the 1930s Depression.

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Sheas Creek

Creek now confined to a stormwater channel flowing from Alexandria into the Alexandra Canal.

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Shelly Beach Manly

Small beach area near Fairy Bower at Manly protected from the ocean swell by a long reef.

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Shipwrights Bay

Bay on the Georges River adjacent to Tom Uglys Bridge.

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Sickles Creek

Creek to the west of Camden and Grasmere which flows north into the Nepean River.

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Simmons Point

Point on the northern tip of the East Balmain peninsula. Named for James Simmons who purchased the land in 1836.

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Smiths Creek

Creek to the east of Campbelltown which flows into Bow Bowing Creek at Leumeah.

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South Creek

A watercourse rising about 4 km NE of Narellan and 7 km west of Minto. It flows generally north for about 70 km until its confluence with the Hawkesbury River, near Windsor.

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