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Atlas of the Suburbs of Sydney - Vaucluse & Woollahra 1895-1895

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Atlas of the Suburbs of Sydney Shark Island

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Darling Point Double Bay Point Piper Rose Bay Vaucluse Watsons Bay Woollahra

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Higinbotham & Robinson

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Atlas of the Suburbs of Sydney

Published by commercial map makers Higinbotham, Robinson and Harrison in the late nineteenth century, the maps of the Atlas of the Suburbs of Sydney provide a portrait of the city's municipalities during a period of rapid growth and suburbanisation.

Shark Island

Shark Island sits in Sydney Harbour, just 1km from Rose Bay. In 1945 the first Sydney to Hobart race was launched from its banks.

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Darling Point

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Wealthy harbourside suburb named for Elizabeth Darling, the wife of New South Wales Governor Ralph Darling. It is the site of Carthona, heritage-listed home of Surveyor-General Thomas Mitchell.

Double Bay

Eastern harbourside suburb between Point Piper and Darling Point. It has cultivated an image as an exclusive shopping centre with a village atmosphere.

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Point Piper

Wealthy eastern harbourside suburb, named for Captain John Piper who was granted the land in 1816.

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Rose Bay

Eastern harbourside suburb named for Governor Arthur Phillip's friend and mentor George Rose, later Treasurer of the Navy. It was the site of a flying boat airport until 1974 and seaplanes still land there.

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Vaucluse

Eastern suburb located on South Head. The land was the traditional country of the Birrabirragal people, settled in the 1820s and named after Vaucluse in the south of France. It is one of Sydney's most expensive suburbs.

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Watsons Bay

Suburb on the outermost shore of the southern side of Sydney harbour which, since colonial times, has been an important naval and civil maritime precinct, as well as a destination for Sydneysiders and tourists.

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Woollahra

Inner-eastern suburb characterised by its tree-lined streets of heritage buildings and village-style commercial centre, relatively untouched by major development.

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Atlas of the Suburbs of Sydney

Series of late-nineteenth-century commercial maps of municipalities created by Sydney map publishers Higinbotham, Robinson and Harrison.

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