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Sydney from the North Shore 1827

Sydney from the North Shore 1827

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Dawes Point Observatory Hill Sydney Cove Sydney Harbour

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Dawes Point North Sydney The Rocks Wynyard Barracks

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Dawes Point battery First Government House Fort Macquarie Fort Phillip Government House St James Anglican church Queens Square St Philip's Anglican church York Street

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Lycett, Joseph

State Library of New South Wales

Transport

Sydney's transport has been shaped by the geography of the city, changing economic and social needs, technological limitations and advances, and political considerations. From walking tracks and animal haulage to the commuting city of today, transport has also shaped the city itself, opening up new areas and choking others. Carts, ferries, trains, trams, buses and cars have all figured in Sydney's transport history.

Aboriginal

Ships

Colonial architecture

Mills and windmills

Sydney Cove

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Small bay on the southern shore of Port Jackson, which became the site for the European settlement in Sydney.

North Sydney

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Sydney's second high-rise business district, at the northern end of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, result of a building boom from the 1960s to the 1980s.

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.

Dawes Point

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Headland on the western side of Sydney Cove.

Dawes Point

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Harbourside suburb at the southern end of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, adjacent to The Rocks. From the earliest days of the colony it was a significant as the site of the first observatory and one of the earliest gun placements.

The Rocks

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Suburb located north of the central business district on the western shore of Sydney Cove. Characterised by a precinct of restored nineteenth-century buildings which are a major tourist attraction, it was recognised as a separate suburb in 1993.

Fort Macquarie

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Square castellated fort built on Bennelong Point, incorporating some of the guns taken from HMS Supply.

Government House

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Governor's residence commissioned by Governor Bourke and constructed of local sandstone between 1836 and 1843 in the Gothic Revival style.

First Government House

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Residence for the first nine Governors of NSW, which was the first major building in the colony. The first permanent building in the colony, it had two storeys built of bricks and stone comprising six rooms, two cellars and a rear staircase. In front of the house was a garden where many imported plant species were grown and the first orchard planted. The Museum of Sydney, on the corner of Bridge and Phillip Streets, was built on its site.

Wynyard Barracks

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Barracks and parade ground constructed for the the military in the early days of the colony. They were used until the new Victoria Barracks were completed in 1848.

St Philip's Anglican church York Street

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Anglican church built in 1855 on the site of the first and second St Philip's. Constructed of sandstone and slate in Victorian Academic Gothic style it is centre of the oldest parish in Australia.

St James Anglican church Queens Square

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Early Anglican church which was Australia's tallest structure from 1822 to 1853 The copper steeple is 52 metres high and was part of the modification to the original plans which were for a courthouse on the site.

Dawes Point battery

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First permanent fortification in Sydney constructed on the site of Dawes' observatory. The current archaeological site below the southern pylon of the Harbour Bridge reveals a powder magazine, officer quarters, guardhouse and circular battery .

Observatory Hill

Hill at the top of The Rocks, west of Sydney Cove, which is the highest point overlooking Port Jackson. With commanding views both east and west, it was the site of one of Sydney's first windmills from 1796 before being replaced with a fort in 1803. By 1849 an observatory had also been constructed which can still be visited.

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Fort Phillip

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Hexagonal fort built on Windmill Hill from 1804, but never finished.