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Atlas of the Suburbs of Sydney - Rockdale 1888

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Atlas of the Suburbs of Sydney - Rockdale 1888

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Atlas of the Suburbs of Sydney

Published by commercial map makers Higinbotham, Robinson and Harrison in the late nineteenth century, the maps of the Atlas of the Suburbs of Sydney provide a portrait of the city's municipalities during a period of rapid growth and suburbanisation.

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Botany Bay

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Large bay south of the city of Sydney, into which the Cooks and Georges rivers run.

Cooks River

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River that flows through south-west Sydney, starting at Graf Park, Yagoona, through to Botany Bay at Kyeemagh. The river was extensively polluted by industry and its course was changed to accommodate the runways of Sydney Airport.

Brighton-Le-Sands

Southern residential suburb on the western shore of Botany Bay, named for the English resort by tramway entrepreneur and developer Thomas Saywell. Development followed the construction of the railway to Hurstville and a tramline from Rockdale to the beach at Brighton.

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Rockdale

Southern residential suburb of located west of Botany Bay, which is built on the country of the Cadigal, Gweagal and Bidjigal people. Rockdale is highly multicultural, with communities of Chinese, Macedonian, Greek and Arabic heritage, among others.

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Atlas of the Suburbs of Sydney

Series of late-nineteenth-century commercial maps of municipalities created by Sydney map publishers Higinbotham, Robinson and Harrison.

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