Skip to main content
  1. The Dictionary of Sydney
  2. Browse
  3. Browse Entities

Browse Natural Features

View content in list, type
Title Type
Wolli Creek River or creek
Woodford Bay Bay or cove
Woolloomooloo Bay Bay or cove
Woolloomooloo Hill Hill or mountain
Woolooware Bay Bay or cove
Woolwich Peninsula Headland or point
Woronora Plateau Geological feature
Woronora River River or creek
Xanthorrhoea media Plant
Yaralla Bay Bay or cove
Yarra Bay Bay or cove
Yarramundi Lagoon Lake or lagoon
Yengo Creek River or creek
Yondi Mountain (Kolebutba) Hill or mountain
Yurong Creek River or creek
Yurulbin (Long Nose Point) Headland or point

Pagination

  • First page « First
  • Previous page ‹‹
  • Page 4
  • Page 5
  • Page 6
  • Page 7
  • Current page 8

Browse

  • Browse
    • Artefacts
    • Buildings
    • Events
    • Natural Features
    • Organisations
    • People
    • Places
    • Structures
    • Entries
    • Multimedia
    • Subjects
    • Roles
    • Contributors

Footer

  • Home
  • About
  • Copyright
  • Contact

Footer Secondary

  • Contribute
  • Donate

Wolli Creek

full record »

Watercourse about 9 kilometres long rising south of Narwee and flowing generally north east into the Cooks River.

River or creek

Woodford Bay

Bay on the Lane Cove River at Longueville.

full record »

Bay or cove

Woolloomooloo Bay

full record »

Bay in Sydney Harbour east of Farm Cove.

Woolloomooloo Hill

Rocky ridge extending inland from modern-day Potts Point, first subdivided in 1828 by Governor Darling and occupied by the colony's most prominent citizens.

full record »

Hill or mountain

Woolooware Bay

A bay on the Georges River between Taren Point and Pelican Point about two km north west of Woolooware.

full record »

Woolwich Peninsula

full record »

Peninsula between the Lane Cove and Parramatta rivers, extending east from Hunters Hill.

Headland or point

Woronora Plateau

Geological feature of broad topped ridges lying between Forbes Creek and Woronora River, located 3 km west of Sutherland Railway Station.

full record »

Geological feature

Woronora River

full record »

River that flows north from near Helensburgh to meet the Georges River between Como and Illawong. The Woronora dam in the river's southern reaches provides water for Sydney.

Xanthorrhoea media

Slow -growing plant known commonly as 'grass tree' native to the central coastal area of New South Wales.

full record »

Plant

Yaralla Bay

Bay on the Parramatta River between Mortlake and Rhodes.

full record »

Yarra Bay

Bay at the head of Botany Bay.

full record »

Yarramundi Lagoon

Lagoon parallel to the Nepean River at Agnes Banks.

full record »

Lake or lagoon

Yengo Creek

Tributary of the Macdonald River that rises in Yenglo National Park, between the Hunter and the Hawkesbury.

full record »

Yondi Mountain (Kolebutba)

Peak in the Higher Macdonald district of the Hawkesbury that has an elevation of about 230m. The Aboriginal name recorded for the mountain in 1829 was Kolebutba.

full record »

Yurong Creek

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

full record »

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.

full record »