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Rushcutters Bay Park 2003

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Rushcutters Bay Park 2003

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Rushcutters Bay Park

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Harbourside park at Rushcutters Bay.

Rushcutters Bay

Inner eastern high-density residential suburb between Potts Point and Darling Point, named for the rushes cut by convicts for thatching in the early days of the colony. Sydney Stadium was built there in 1908 but demolished in the 1970s for the Eastern Suburbs Railway.

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Rushcutters Bay

Bay about two kilometres east of Sydney Cove so named because convicts cut rushes there for thatching. Now noted as the site of a major harbour marina.

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