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Birds eye view of the Port of Sydney 1913

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Sydney Harbour Trust
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National Library of Australia
[MAP RM 2757/1]
(Sydney : Published by the Sydney Harbour Trust Commissioners, 1913, In: The Port of Sydney, N.S.W. : official handbook. Sydney : Sydney Harbour Trust Commissioners, 1913. Second edition.)

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Sydney Harbour Trust

National Library of Australia

Early Hydrographers of Sydney

Surveying the depths of Sydney Harbour was essential for safe navigation and effective transport. From 1788 until the formation of the Sydney Harbour Trust in 1901, the depths of the Harbour were charted by officers of the Royal Navy, with some help from French explorers.

Geography and cartography

Shipping

Surveying

Maps

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.