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Animal

• Alice the elephant
• Atrax robustus (Sydney funnel-web spider)
• Pteropus poliocephalus (grey-headed flying fox)
• Trim

Archaeological site

• Burragurra (Devil's Rock)

Bay or cove

• Apple Tree Bay
• Athol Bay
• Balls Head Bay
• Balmain Cove
• Berrys Bay
• Blackwattle Bay
• Botany Bay
• Bray's Bay
• Brisbane Water
• Broken Bay
• Cabbage Tree Bay
• Camp Cove
• Campbell's Cove
• Careening Cove
• Chowder Bay
• Coba Bay
• Cockle Bay
• Crater Cove
• Diamond Bay
• Farm Cove
• Fisher Bay
• Five Dock Bay
• Flint & Steel Bay
• Frenchmans Bay
• Glades Bay
• Gore Cove
• Grose Bay
• Hen and Chicken Bay
• Iron Cove
• Jew Fish Bay
• Johnstons Bay
• Kerosene Bay
• Kogarah Bay
• Lady Bay
• Little Sirius Cove
• Long Bay
• Long Bay, Middle Harbour
• Looking Glass Bay
• Mackenzies Bay
• Major's Bay
• Middle Harbour
• Morrisons Bay
• Mosman Bay
• Neverfail Bay
• Oatley Bay
• Oyster Bay
• Parsley Bay
• Peach Tree Bay
• Peats Bight
• Pittwater
• Port Hacking
• Port Jackson
• Powder Hulk Bay
• Pyrmont Bay
• Quakers Hat Bay
• Rozelle Bay
• Rushcutters Bay
• Scylla Bay
• Shipwrights Bay
• Sydney Cove
• Sydney Harbour
• Taylors Bay
• Vaucluse Bay
• Walsh Bay
• Weeney Bay
• Wentworth Bay
• White Bay
• Willoughby Bay
• Woodford Bay
• Woolloomooloo Bay
• Woolooware Bay
• Yaralla Bay
• Yarra Bay

Beach

• Balmoral Beach
• Bronte Beach
• Chinamans Beach
• Coogee Beach
• Cronulla Beach
• Dee Why Beach
• Edwards Beach
• Fairlight Beach
• Forty Baskets Beach
• Frenchmans Beach
• Freshwater Beach
• Malabar Beach
• Maroubra Beach
• Reef Beach
• Shelly Beach Cronulla
• Shelly Beach Manly
• South Steyne beach
• Undercliffe Beach
• Wanda Beach
• Washaway Beach

Cave

• Bull Cave
• Henry Lawson Cave
• Old Woman's Bonnet

Dam

• Lake Northam

Forest

• Blue Gum Forest
• Browns Forest
• Sydney Coastal River Flat Forest

Geological feature

• Bald Rock
• Bottle and Glass Rocks
• Burra Korain
• Castle Rock
• Dark's Cave
• Darling Causeway
• Du Faur Buttress
• Du Faurs Lookout
• Du Faurs Rocks
• Fortress Ridge
• Govetts Leap
• Hawkesbury sandstone
• Hornsby Plateau
• Kings Tableland
• Lockleys Pylon
• Lovers Leap, Maroota
• Mount Solitary
• Narrow Neck
• Orphan Rock
• Peats Crater
• Portland Head Rock
• Quaternary sediments
• Sow and Pigs Reef
• Tarpeian Rock
• The Brothers, Henley
• The Crescent
• Three Sisters
• Wianamatta shale
• Woronora Plateau

Headland or point

• Abbotsford Point
• Ballast Point
• Bedlam Point
• Ben Buckler
• Bennelong Point
• Blues Point
• Bluff Head
• Bobbin Head
• Bradleys Head
• Bungan Head
• Cape Banks
• Challenger Head
• Charity Point
• Church Point
• Clontarf Point
• Dawes Point
• Dobroyd Head
• Dunbar Head
• Gap Bluff
• Garrison Point
• Georges Head
• Glebe Point
• Green Point
• Greenwich Point
• Grotto Point
• Halls Point
• Hallstrom Point
• Henry Head
• Horse Rock Point
• Juno Point
• Kissing Point
• Kurraba Point
• Lambert Peninsula
• Looking Glass Point
• Manns Point
• Mauns Point (Karkingang)
• Middle Head
• Mooney Mooney Point
• Mortlake Point
• Mrs Macquarie's Point
• North Head
• Onions Point
• Parriwi Point
• Pine Point
• Point Seymour
• Raven Point
• Robertsons Point
• Rocky Point Concord
• Simmons Point
• South Head
• The Spit
• Tom Uglys Point
• Village Point
• Woolwich Peninsula
• Yurulbin (Long Nose Point)

Hill or mountain

• Blue Mountains
• Bunkers Hill
• Burragurra (Devil's Rock)
• Collaroy Plateau
• Hat Hill
• Lapstone Hill
• Mobbs Hill
• Mount Banks
• Mount Hay
• Mount Hunter
• Mount Rennie
• Mount Yengo
• Observatory Hill
• Prospect Hill
• Richmond Hill
• Thornton's Hill
• Woolloomooloo Hill
• Yondi Mountain (Kolebutba)

Island

• Bar Island
• Bare Island
• Bottle and Glass Rocks
• Clark Island
• Cockatoo Island
• Darling Island
• Garden Island
• Glebe Island
• Goat Island
• Lion Island
• Long Island
• Rodd Island
• Shark Island
• Snapper Island
• Spectacle Island
• Sydney Harbour islands

Lake or lagoon

• Chipping Norton Lakes
• Cobay lagoon
• Curl Curl Lagoon
• Duck Pond Camp Cove
• Hopwoods Lagoon (Taoura)
• Manly Lagoon
• Mareh-Mareh lagoon
• Narrabeen Lagoon
• Pughs Lagoon
• Yarramundi Lagoon

Locality

• Berry Island
• Greater Blue Mountains Area
• Punch Bowl

Lookout

• Richardson's Lookout

National Park

• Greater Blue Mountains Area

Plain

• Cumberland Plain

Plant

• Acacia pendula (Weeping Myall)
• Aegiceras corniculatum
• Angophora costata
• Apium prostratum (sea parsley)
• Araucaria bidwillii
• Araucaria heterophylla
• Avicennia marina
• Eucalyptus deanei Maiden
• Eucalyptus maculata
• Eucalyptus pilularis (Blackbutt)
• Eucalyptus saligna
• Ficus macrophylla
• Ficus rubiginosa
• Granny Smith apple
• Imperial mandarin
• Livistona australis (cabbage-tree palm)
• Pittosporum undulatum
• St Ives Boundary Tree
• Themeda triandra
• Wollemi pine
• Xanthorrhoea media

Reserve

• Greater Blue Mountains Area
• St Albans Common

River or creek

• Apple Tree Bay Creek
• Archer Creek
• Bardenarang Creek (Bardo Narang)
• Bardwell Creek
• Berowra Creek
• Big Boree Creek
• Blackbutt Creek
• Blackwattle Creek
• Boree Arm
• Bow Bowing Creek
• Bringelly Creek
• Buffalo Creek
• Cabramatta Creek
• Calabash Creek
• Cataract River
• Cattai Creek
• Clay Cliff Creek
• Clear Paddock Creek
• Cockle Creek
• Colo River
• Cooks River
• Cowan Creek
• Coxs Creek
• Cup and Saucer Creek
• Darling Mills Creek
• Devlins Creek
• Du Faur Creek
• Duck River
• Emu Ford
• Flat Rock Creek
• Fortress Creek
• Freshwater Creek
• Gambling Creek
• Georges River
• Gordon Creek
• Gorricks Creek
• Greendale Creek
• Grose River
• Gumbramorra Creek
• Hacking River
• Hackings Creek
• Harris Creek
• Haslams Creek
• Hawkesbury River (Dyarubbin)
• Hunts Creek
• Iron Cove Creek
• Jamison Creek
• Johnstons Creek
• Kedumba River
• Kelso Creek
• Kittys Creek
• Lane Cove River
• Leura Falls
• Little Blue Gum Creek
• Little Boree Creek
• Little Cattai Creek
• Loftus Creek
• Lovers Jump Creek
• Macdonald River (Gunanday)
• Mangrove Creek
• Marlo Creek (Malu)
• Marlows Gully
• Marramarra Creek
• Matahil Creek
• Melon Creek (Melong)
• Mill Creek
• Mount Hunter Rivulet
• Muddy Creek
• Mullet Creek
• Narellan Creek
• Narrabeen Creek
• Nepean River
• Parramatta River
• Peter Meadows Creek
• Ponds Creek
• Portland Reach
• Powells Creek
• Prospect Creek
• Punchbowl Creek
• Quarry Creek
• Ridge Creek
• Rushcutters Creek
• Salt Pan Creek
• Sheas Creek
• Sickles Creek
• Smiths Creek
• South Creek
• Spring Creek
• Still Creek
• Strangers Creek
• Tank Stream
• Tarban Creek
• Terrys Creek
• Thompson Creek
• Tinker's Well
• Toongabbie Creek
• West's Creek
• Wheeler Creek
• Whites Creek
• Williams Creek
• Wolli Creek
• Woronora River
• Yengo Creek
• Yurong Creek

Swamp

• Blackwattle Swamp
• Boree Swamp in 1831
• Botany Wetlands
• Du Faur Wetland
• Gumbramorra Swamp
• Lachlan Swamps
• St Albans Common
• Veterans' swamp
• Waterloo Swamp

Valley

• Berowra Valley
• Burragorang Valley
• Grose Valley
• Jamison Valley
• Kanimbla Valley
• Megalong Valley
• Miles Gully

Weather phenomenon

• Southerly buster