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Construction of the Sydney Opera House 1966

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Construction of the Sydney Opera House 1966

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National Archives of Australia

[C500, S66/2190]

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Jensen, Michael

National Archives of Australia

Construction

Theatre

Late Twentieth Century architecture

Opera

Public building

Sydney Opera House

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Jorn Utzon's Sydney landmark.

Bennelong Point

Rocky outcrop to the east of Sydney Cove, which was a tidal island when Europeans arrived, but was joined to the mainland with rocky rubble in 1818 to provide a basis for Fort Macquarie to be built there. The point is named for Bennelong, who lived in a house on the point in the 1790s.

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