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Garden Island 1803

By
Vincent Woodthorpe
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[a7225168 / DL PXX 84, 168]
(from 'Account of a voyage to New South Wales' by George Barrington, 1810 edition) (Dixson Library)

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Woodthorpe, Vincent

State Library of New South Wales

Islands of Sydney Harbour

Sydney Harbour once had 14 islands. These were outcrops and the peaks of steep hills left uncovered as the sea level rose, between 10,000 and 6,000 years ago, flooding an ancient river valley and forming the harbour that exists today

Garden Island

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Island in Sydney Harbour given by Arthur Phillip to the crew of the Sirius to grow their vegetables By 1858 it had become a naval base and was joined to the mainland by the construction of the Captain Cook Graving Dock in 1942.

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.

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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