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Kurrajong Suburb
Kurrajong Heights Suburb
Kurrajong Hills Suburb
Kyeemagh Suburb
Kyeemagh Polo Ground Sporting venue
Kyle Bay Suburb
La Perouse Suburb
La Perouse Aboriginal Reserve Locality
La Perouse Tram Terminus Transport interchange
Lachlan Vale Farm
Lake Parramatta Locality
Lakemba Suburb
Lakeside Caravan Park Narrabeen Camp
Lalor Park Suburb
Lambeth Park Reserve
Lane Cove Suburb
Lane Cove Estate Estate
Lane Cove local government area Region
Lane Cove National Park National Park
Lane Cove North Suburb
Lane Cove Sawing Establishment Camp
Lane Cove West Suburb
Lang Park Park or open space
Lansdowne Suburb
Lansvale Suburb
Lapstone Suburb
Lapstone Creek rock shelter Archaeological site
Laughtondale Suburb
Lavender Bay Suburb
Lawson Suburb
Leemon Reserve Park or open space
Leichhardt Suburb
Leichhardt local government area Region
Leichhardt Stadium Sporting venue
Leightonfield Locality
Lemongrove Locality
Len Waters Estate Suburb
Leonay Suburb
Leppington Suburb
Lethbridge Park Suburb
Leumeah Suburb
Leura Suburb
Lever Brothers Factory, Balmain Industrial site
Lewisham Suburb
Liberty Grove Suburb
Liberty Plains Locality
Lidcombe Suburb
Lilli Pilli Suburb
Lilyfield Suburb
Linden Suburb

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Kurrajong

North-western semi-rural suburb lying along Bells Line of Road. Its name comes from an Aboriginal word meaning 'shade tree'.

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Suburb

Kurrajong Heights

North-western semi-rural suburb lying along Bells Line of Road. It was designated as a separate suburb in 2004.

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Kurrajong Hills

North-western semi-rural suburb lying along Bells Line of Road. It was designated as a separate suburb in 2004.

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Kyeemagh

Residential suburb on the southern side of the Cooks River near Sydney Airport. Its name, meaning 'beautiful dawn', was suggested by the New South Wales Polo Association in 1928 as the name of its new Polo Ground.

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Kyeemagh Polo Ground

Polo ground near the mouth of the Cooks River which was closed when Kingsford Smith airport expanded.

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Sporting venue

Kyle Bay

Small, wealthy southern residential suburb overlooking Georges River. It is named after Robert Kyle, local shipbuilder.

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La Perouse

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South-eastern residential suburb on Botany Bay, named after the French explorer who landed there in 1788. It has a large Indigenous population, including those who can trace their ancestors back to the Kameygal people in pre-contact times.

La Perouse Aboriginal Reserve

Area assigned as an Aboriginal Reserve in the 1880s and formally gazetted as such in 1895. Initally a mission community, it is now governed by the La Perouse Local Aboriginal Land Council.

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Locality

La Perouse Tram Terminus

Tram loop which catered for both the service from the city via Maroubra with a branch to Malabar, and that from Botany. Opening in 1902 for steam trams the services were electrified in 1905. The last trams ran on February 25 1961. It has now been modified for car and bus parking.

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Transport interchange

Lachlan Vale

A 1000-acre farm in Appin near the Nepean River, on land granted to Deputy General Commissary WIlliam Broughton by Governor Macquarie in 1811. The farm was named after the Governor.

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Farm

Lake Parramatta

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Artificial lake formed by damming Hunts Creek in 1856.

Lakemba

South-western residential suburb, site of the home of Benjamin Taylor, who named it in the 1880s after his father-in-law's mission station in Fiji. It has a large Muslim community chiefly of Lebanese and Bangladeshi ancestry.

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Lakeside Caravan Park Narrabeen

Caravan park at North Narrabeen near the entrance to the Narrabeen Lakes.

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Camp

Lalor Park

Western residential suburb, named after the Lalor family who owned property in the area in the early twentieth century. Developed by the New South Wales Housing Commission in 1959, its streets are named after famous Australians.

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Lambeth Park

Reserve in the neighbourhood of Picnic Point, located between Georges River and Henry Lawson Drive,opposite Lambeth Street.

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Reserve

Lane Cove

Affluent suburb on lower North Shore. Industry developed there in the nineteenth century, but lack of access to the district limited residential development until the early twentieth century.

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Lane Cove Estate

Housing estate on Sydney's north shore.

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Estate

Lane Cove local government area

Area of 11 square kilometres on Sydney's north shore governed by Lane Cove Council. It is named after the river surveyed by Lieutenant William Bradley in 1788.

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Region

Lane Cove National Park

Small national park in northern Sydney, based on the Lane Cove River bank land set aside for a park in the 1920s.

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National Park

Lane Cove North

Northern residential suburb. It was separated from Lane Cove in 2006.

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Lane Cove Sawing Establishment

Timber getting and sawmilling operation on the Lane Cove River established by the colonial government with convict labour to provide building materials for the growing town.

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Lane Cove West

Northern residential suburb, separated from Lane Cove in 2002.

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Lang Park

Park on Church Hill, named for John Dunmore Lang, part of which was the site of the first St Phillip's Anglican church, 1798-1856.

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Park or open space

Lansdowne

South-western suburb named after Lansdowne Bridge over Prospect Creek. Site of the 1960-61 Australian Scout Jamboree, it has no permanent population but contains Lansdowne Park and Mirrambeena Regional Park.

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Lansvale

Western residential suburb between Prospect Creek and Chipping Norton Lakes. Its name combines the neighbouring suburbs of Lansdowne and Canley Vale.

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Lapstone

Town at the foot of the Blue Mountains on the western bank of the Nepean River. Its name comes from the presence of stones thought to resemble lapstones used by cobblers while beating leather.

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Lapstone Creek rock shelter

Aboriginal camp site excavated by archaeologists in the 1930s which provided some of the early foundations for archaeological understandings of Sydney's prehistory.

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Archaeological site

Laughtondale

Suburb on the banks of the Hawkesbury River downstream from Wisemans Ferry. Named for John Laughton who settled there in the 1840s.

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Lavender Bay

Small harbourside suburb on Sydney's lower north shore between Blues Point and Milsons Point. The rail line running through it once terminated at the old Milsons Point station before the Sydney Harbour Bridge was built.

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Lawson

Central Blue Mountains town named for the explorer who crossed the mountains with Blaxland and Wentworth in 1813. In the early twentieth century it grew to be a major tourist destination and administrative centre.

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Leemon Reserve

A reserve in Mitchell Street Greenwich bounded by Wallace and Robert Street.

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Leichhardt

Inner-western residential suburb with a prominent population of Italian migrants.

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Leichhardt local government area

Small, densely-populated inner-western area, part of the traditional lands of the Cadigal and Wangal peoples, formerly governed by Leichhardt Council until being merged with Ashfield and Marrickville to form Inner West local government area in 2016. Annandale, Balmain and Glebe municipalities were amalgamated into Leichhardt in 1949.

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Leichhardt Stadium

Stadium in Balmain Road Leichhardt which hosted boxing and wrestling.

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Leightonfield

Industrial area between Chester Hill and Villawood.

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Lemongrove

Locality between Penrith and Kingswood, north of the Great Western Highway.

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Len Waters Estate

South-western industrial and commercial suburb, named after the only known Aboriginal fighter pilot in the Second World War. Occupying the site of the former Hoxton Park Aerodrome, it was designated as a separate suburb in 2009.

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Leonay

Residential suburb on the western bank of the Nepean River at the foot of the Blue Mountains. It was named in 1974 after the Emu Plains home and vineyards of winemaker Leo Buring (d. 1961) and his wife Nay.

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Leppington

South-western semi-rural suburb. It is named after Leppington Park, the property granted to William Cordeaux in 1821.

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Lethbridge Park

Western residential suburb, part of the 1960s Mount Druitt development. It is named after Robert Copeland Lethbridge, son-in-law of Governor King, who settled in the area in 1806.

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Leumeah

South-western residential suburb bordering Campbelltown. Its name, from a Tharawal word meaning 'here I rest', was originally given to a farm established in 1876.

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Leura

Upper Blue Mountains residential suburb adjacent to Katoomba. It is known as a 'garden village' with a largely intact early twentieth century shopping centre along Leura Mall.

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Lever Brothers Factory, Balmain

Soap factory at White Bay founded by Lever Brothers Ltd. After closure it was redeveloped as a housing estate.

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Industrial site

Lewisham

Inner-western residential and commercial suburb named after the estate of emancipist jeweller Jacob Josephson. It developed with the construction of the Redfern-Parramatta railway line in the 1850s.

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Liberty Grove

Inner-western residential suburb built on former industrial site adjacent to Rhodes and Concord West, made a separate suburb in 1998. Its name refers to free settlers who arrived on the Bellona in 1793 and were granted land in the area by Major Francis Grose.

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Liberty Plains

Area of western Sydney, owned by the Wangal people, but granted to free settlers in the 1790s.

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Lidcombe

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Western suburb, 14 kilometres west of central Sydney, nestled around Rookwood Cemetery, with industry and commercial development as well as residential areas. The area was known by several names, including Rookwood, Liberty Plains, and Haslams's Creek, before a new name 'Lidcombe' was created in 1914 by combining the surnames of two of the mayors of Rookwood Council, Frederick Lidbury and Alexander Larcombe. 

Lilli Pilli

Small southern residential suburb on a peninsula overlooking Port Hacking. Formerly part of the Sutherland estate of Thomas Holt (1811-1888), it was named after the native myrtles that grew there.

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Lilyfield

Inner-western suburb bounded to the west by Iron Cove. It is the site of the former Callan Park Hospital.

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Linden

Small lower Blue Mountains village.

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