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A day's picnic on Clark Island 1870

A day's picnic on Clark Island 1870

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Scott, Montagu

State Library of New South Wales

Clark Island

Tiny, yet beautiful, Clark Island became a popular picnic spot in the middle of the nineteenth century.

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A Day's Picnic on Clark Island

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Oil painting depicting a day on the island in 1870, donated to the Mitchell Library in 1930.

Clark Island

Island in Sydney Harbour off Darling Point, part of the Sydney Harbor National Park

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Sydney Harbour islands

Originally 14 sandstone outcrops in the harbour. Five former islands, Garden, Bennelong, Darling, Glebe and Berry Islands, have been joined to the mainland. Two more were joined to form Spectacle Island in the 1860s. The other remaining islands are Shark, Clark, Fort Denison, Goat, Cockatoo, Snapper and Rodd Islands.

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