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Reconnaissance map of the Como Railway Bridge a...

Reconnaissance map of the Como Railway Bridge and adjacent country 1894

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Oatley railway station

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Georges River Oatley Bay Woronora River

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Como Oatley Oyster Bay

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Anderson, GG

National Library of Australia

Como

Dharawal country until the Europeans started moving in in the 1860s, Como's position on two rivers made it an early oyster-gathering spot and tourist attraction. From the 1890s subdivision brought new residents to the area, and Como developed into a suburban village. During the Depression in the 1930s, reclamation and other relief works changed the shoreline and connected Como by road to Sutherland.

Bridges

Railways

Rivers and Catchments

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Oatley railway station

Station originally opened in 1886 but moved to its current location in 1905.

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Georges River

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River that rises at Appin in the upland swamps of the O'Hares Creek catchment, and flows 80 kilometres north and east to meet Botany Bay at Taren Point, in Sydney's southern suburbs. The total catchment is over 930 square kilometres managed by a large number of local government authorities and is the main tributary of Botany Bay.

Oatley Bay

Bay off the Georges River about 3 kilometres west of Blakehurst.

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Woronora River

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River that flows north from near Helensburgh to meet the Georges River between Como and Illawong. The Woronora dam in the river's southern reaches provides water for Sydney.

Como

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Residential suburb on the southern shore of the Georges River, east of the Woronora River. Named after the lake in Italy, it grew from the camp set up for the building of the Illawarra rail line in the 1880s.

Oatley

Leafy southern residential suburb on the Georges River. Built on the land granted to James Oatley, a convict clockmaker, it began to develop in the 1960s.

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Oyster Bay

Southern residential suburb occupying a peninsula on the southern bank of the Georges River. The name first appeared on maps in 1840, indicating oyster farming was established there by this date.

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Como railway bridge

Single-track wrought iron lattice girder railway bridge across the Georges River, later converted to a pedestrian bridge.

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