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Millers Point and Dawes Point 2008

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Bridges

Wharves

Sydney Observatory building

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Scientific observation station built on Sydney's highest point.

Sydney Opera House

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Jorn Utzon's Sydney landmark.

Walsh Bay

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Bay on the western side of Dawes Point in Sydney Harbour, west of Sydney Cove.

Circular Quay

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Area of Sydney's central business district that surrounds the quays built on reclaimed land from the 1830s.

Millers Point

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Inner-city suburb on the western side of the Harbour Bridge's southern approaches. It was named for the windmills that were built on its heights, and their owner, John Leighton, known as Jack the Miller.

Sydney Harbour Bridge

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

Walsh Bay wharves

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Wharves along Hickson Road which form part of an historical port precinct comprising sheds, bond stores and bridges carved from the sandstone cliff of Dawes Point. Built of turpentine piles with ironbark beams the wharves have been converted for use as theatre and arts venues and residential apartments.

Sydney Harbour

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The largest arm of Port Jackson, which extends west from the Heads past Balmain and meets the estuaries of the Lane Cove and Parramatta rivers.

Circular Quay

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Quay built between 1837 and 1855 and originally known as Semi-circular Quay, because of the shape of the stoneworks built with convict labour to stabilise the new shoreline reclaimed from mudflats.