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Sydney c1802

Sydney c1802

By

Giuseppe Antonelli

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(from 'Galleria universale di tutti i popoli del mondo'. vol III. Venice, 1838-1842)

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Barangaroo and the Eora Fisherwomen

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Aboriginal Fishing Shipping

Buildings

Campbell's Stores First Government House

Natural features

Bennelong Point Campbell's Cove Port Jackson Sydney Cove Sydney Harbour

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Circular Quay Sydney The Rocks

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Boston's Mill

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Antonelli, Giuseppe

Private collection

Barangaroo and the Eora Fisherwomen

Barangaroo was one of the powerful figures in Sydney's early history. She had knowledge of laws, teaching and women's rituals and held the respect of Governor Phillip and his officers who were fascinated by the Eora women and their formidable fishing skills.

Aboriginal

Fishing

Shipping

First Government House

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Residence for the first nine Governors of NSW, which was the first major building in the colony. The first permanent building in the colony, it had two storeys built of bricks and stone comprising six rooms, two cellars and a rear staircase. In front of the house was a garden where many imported plant species were grown and the first orchard planted. The Museum of Sydney, on the corner of Bridge and Phillip Streets, was built on its site.

Bennelong Point

Rocky outcrop to the east of Sydney Cove, which was a tidal island when Europeans arrived, but was joined to the mainland with rocky rubble in 1818 to provide a basis for Fort Macquarie to be built there. The point is named for Bennelong, who lived in a house on the point in the 1790s.

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Campbell's Cove

Small cove on western side of Sydney Cove between the Overseas Passenger Terminal and Dawes Point, named for the merchant Robert Campbell, who built his wharf and warehouses and an Indian-style bungalow there.

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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.

Sydney Harbour

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The largest arm of Port Jackson, which extends west from the Heads past Balmain and meets the estuaries of the Lane Cove and Parramatta rivers.

Circular Quay

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Area of Sydney's central business district that surrounds the quays built on reclaimed land from the 1830s.

Sydney

Traditional home of the Cadigal people and site of the first British colony, the city of Sydney is a cosmopolitan business and cultural centre of 25 square kilometres.

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The Rocks

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Suburb located north of the central business district on the western shore of Sydney Cove. Characterised by a precinct of restored nineteenth-century buildings which are a major tourist attraction, it was recognised as a separate suburb in 1993.

Boston's Mill

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Small timber windmill constructed by Commisary John Palmer that he operated along with the government bakery on land in the present-day upper Botanic Gardens. The mill is referred to as 'Boston's' in an early map. Palmer also had another stone windmill 'Palmer's Mill' nearby. The timber mill and bakehouse were resumed by Macquarie in 1815 and demolished.

Campbell's Stores

Georgian style warehouse buildings built to service the commerce and international shipping transport hub of Sydney until the late nineteenth century. Now occupied by restaurants.

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Sydney Cove

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Small bay on the southern shore of Port Jackson, which became the site for the European settlement in Sydney.