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GPS Regatta at Penrith, Nepean River 1940

GPS Regatta at Penrith, Nepean River 1940

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Hood, Sam

State Library of New South Wales

Education

Education in Sydney started with Aboriginal society and the everyday learning and formal initiation of young Aboriginal people. Institutionalised education came with the Europeans, who first created schools for convicts' children, and later for the children of the new gentry and middle classes. Sydney became the centre of education in the colony, with a university, and eventually in 1880, universal education throughout the suburbs of the growing city.

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Nepean River

River that rises in the southern highlands of New South Wales and curls round greater Sydney, becoming the Hawkesbury River near Yarramundi. Several dams on the river and its tributaries help supply water for Sydney.

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Penrith

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Far western suburb lying on the eastern bank of the Nepean River at the foot of the Blue Mountains, named by Governor Macquarie after a town in England's Lake District. Developing rapidly in the 1970s, it is now one of the major commercial centres in the Greater Western Sydney area.