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Workers on the Sydney Harbour Bridge 1949

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Workers on the Sydney Harbour Bridge 1949

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[A8139, VOLUME 7]

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Sydney Harbour: A Cultural Landscape

Known worldwide for its beauty, Sydney Harbour has been a source of inspiration for thousands of years. First Aboriginal, then European peoples settled the shores, naming and renaming the coves, headlands and points. Artists and writers have explored the harbour's people, landscape, animals and plants. As Sydney has grown and changed, the harbour surrounding the city has evolved from a working waterway into a one of leisure and entertainment. Parts of the old working waterfront, once dismissed as redundant, have become case studies of adaptive reuse with vibrant cultural precincts emerging along the harbour foreshore.

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Sydney Harbour Bridge

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Steel through arch bridge from Sydney business district to the North Shore, constructed between 1923 and 1932.