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Young, Morri
Young, Richard
Young, Robert (Nat)
Young, Sally
Younghusband, Henry
Yowie Bay Suburb
Ysabel, Hunters Hill House
Yugal social and soccer club Sporting club or association
Yugoslav Immigrants Association of Australia Cultural organisation
Yui Ming Hung Fook Tong Community organisation
Yui Ming temple Alexandria Place of worship
Yurong Creek River or creek
Yurong Water Garden Sculpture
Yurulbin (Long Nose Point) Headland or point
Yuwarry
Zabel, Frances
Zadro, Davino
Zampatti, Carla
Zamprogno, Lorenzo
Zanzibar Hotel
Zavos, Spiro
Zdenkowski, George
Zerbini Quartet Performing group
Zetland Suburb
Zetland Mosque Place of worship
Ziegfeld Club Entertainment venue
Ziegler, Oswald
Zig Zag Railway Railway
Zimmer, Vojtech
Zimmerman, Arnold
Zofrea, Salvatore
Zooch, Betty
Zoological Gardens Moore Park Zoo
Zoricich, Zvonimir
Zubricki, Tom
Zuel, Bernard
Zulian, Andrea
Zuliani, Guido
Zusters, Renis

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Young, Morri

Manager who supervised the closure of Royleston as a boy's shelter.

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Young, Richard

Sailor who was one of the survivors of the wreck of the Edward Lombe in Sydney Harbour in 1834.

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Young, Robert (Nat)

Professional surfer and author of books about surfing and sailboarding.

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Young, Sally

Professor of Political Science at the University of Melbourne and author of 'Paper Emperors: the rise of Australia’s newspaper empires'. The 2020 Coral Thomas Fellow at the State Library of NSW.

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Younghusband, Henry

Sailor who survived the wreck of the Edward Lombe in Sydney Harbour in 1834. He was described in reports of the disaster as a boy.

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Yowie Bay

Southern residential suburb on a peninsula overlooking Port Hacking, named after an Aboriginal word meaning 'place of echoes'. Land was originally released there in 1889.

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Suburb

Ysabel, Hunters Hill

House at 6 Ernest Street, Hunters Hill that was built in 1890. Between 1912 and 1962, the building was known as the Malvern School. In 1963 the house was sold to tennis player Lew Hoad and named Ysabel after the first steam ferry of early Hunters Hill resident Jules Joubert. 

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House

Yugal social and soccer club

Croatian soccer and social club later known as Yugal-Ryde.

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Sporting club or association

Yugoslav Immigrants Association of Australia

Yugoslav support organisation formed by immigrants from the Balkans in 1933.

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Cultural organisation

Yui Ming Hung Fook Tong

Chinese society originally comprising market gardeners from Go Yui which built the Yui Ming temple at Alexandria.

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Community organisation

Yui Ming temple Alexandria

Chinese temple built by market gardeners from Go Yui, then and now run by the Yui Ming Hung Fook Tong.

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Place of worship

Yurong Creek

Creek that originally drained the Woolloomooloo valley, ending in mangroves and mudflats in Sydney Harbour.

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River or creek

Yurong Water Garden

Sculpture and environmental artwork by Anita Glesta inspired by the Yurong Creek that once ran from the edge of Cook and Phillip Park through the mangrove swamps down into Woolloomooloo Bay. Roughly hewn boulders of sandstone, reflecting its natural and cultural heritage, and original pavers from the former park have been arranged to form a course for the creek which flows down three terraces of gardens retracing the path of the original.

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Sculpture

Yurulbin (Long Nose Point)

Peninsula at Birchgrove. An imaginary line from this to Manns Point at Greenwich marks the transition of the waterway from Sydney Harbour to the Parramatta river.

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Headland or point

Yuwarry

Aboriginal man, married to Bennelong's sister Carangarang, who lived close to the first white settlement.

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Zabel, Frances

Owner of the Roycroft bookshop and library in Rowe Street from 1923 to 1933. She had previously run the Book Lovers' Club and Library in Perth from 1902. In Sydney she published a regular column 'Let's Talk About Books' under the name Franziska in The Australian Woman's Mirror from 1924 until her death in 1933.

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Zadro, Davino

Italian community leader.

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Zampatti, Carla

Italian born fashion designer and business woman.

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Zamprogno, Lorenzo

Builder and community leader who drove the foundation of the Club Marconi.

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Zanzibar

Restaurant hotel building which is the latest incarnation of the series of hotels which have existed here since the 1860s.

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Hotel

Zavos, Spiro

Rugby union player.

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Zdenkowski, George

Lawyer and magistrate who was sympathetic to the conservation movement in the Blue Mountains.

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Zerbini Quartet

Quartet formed in Melbourne by John Baptist Zerbini soon after his arrival in 1885.

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Performing group

Zetland

Semi-industrial suburb 4 kilometres south of Sydney, named after the Earl of Zetland in the 1870s by his relative Governor Sir Hercules Robinson. The stables of Robinson's residence, Zetland Lodge, were famous for producing champions of the turf.

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Zetland Mosque

Inner city mosque where people from many different ethnic and social backgrounds share prayer mats.

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Ziegfeld Club

Nightclub in King Street Sydney which operated from 1920 and was a well known venue for drag acts.

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Entertainment venue

Ziegler, Oswald

Writer and publisher.

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Zig Zag Railway

Railway which required four large cuttings and three stone viaducts to overcome an otherwise insurmountable climb up the eastern side of the Blue Mountains. Closed as a commercial line in 1910 it re-opened as a tourist railway in 1975.

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Railway

Zimmer, Vojtech

Importer and businessman in the Marrickville area.

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Zimmerman, Arnold

Swiss-born artist and designer, who was responsible for, or contributed to, the interior design of the Hydro Majestic, Anzac Memorial, Sydney; Paragon Cafe, Katoomba; Luna Park, Sydney, and many other Art Deco buildings in Australia and New Zealand.

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Zofrea, Salvatore

Graduate of the Julian Ashton Art school, Zofrea works in oils, woodcuts and frescos.

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Zooch, Betty

Aboriginal girl sent to Cootamundra Aboriginal Girls' Home in the 1950s to be trained for domestic service.

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Zoological Gardens Moore Park

Zoo opened at Billy Goat Swamp in Moore Park, now the site of Sydney Boys and Sydney Girls high schools. When the site became too small the government granted land north of the harbour. The original bear pit can still be seen beside Anzac Parade.

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Zoo

Zoricich, Zvonimir

Community leader active in the post war Croatian community.

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Zubricki, Tom

Film director.

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Zuel, Bernard

Music critic and journalist of Mauritian descent.

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Zulian, Andrea

Italian community leader.

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Zuliani, Guido

Italian born artist and photographer who designed the emblem for Club Marconi.

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Zusters, Renis

Ukrainian artist of Latvian heritage who painted large landscapes with oils, many of the Blue Mountains where he settled.

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