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Atlas of the Suburbs of Sydney - Victoria 1889-1890

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Atlas of the Suburbs of Sydney

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Berrys Bay Blues Point Goat Island

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Blues Point Lavender Bay McMahons Point St Leonards

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Atlas of the Suburbs of Sydney

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Borough of Victoria Council East St Leonards Council North Sydney Council

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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.

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Berrys Bay

Small bay on the north shore of Sydney Harbour between Balls Head and Blues Point.

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Goat Island

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Referred to as 'Me-mel' ('eye') by Aboriginal people, Goat Island stands at the entrance to Darling Harbour.

Lavender Bay

Small harbourside suburb on Sydney's lower north shore between Blues Point and Milsons Point. The rail line running through it once terminated at the old Milsons Point station before the Sydney Harbour Bridge was built.

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St Leonards

Lower north shore suburb, named either after British statesman Lord Sydney of St Leonards, or by surveyor general Thomas Mitchell after the town in England. In recent years it has grown into a major business district, as well as being the location of the Royal North Shore Hospital.

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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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Blues Point

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Locality on Sydney Harbour named for mariner Billy Blue.

Blues Point

Headland on the northern shore of Sydney Harbour, named for boatman Billy Blue who was granted 80 acres there in 1817.

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McMahons Point

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North shore harbourside suburb immediately to the west of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, named for Michael McMahon, a brush and comb manufacturer who settled there in the 1860s. Before the bridge was built, ferries from Circular Quay would meet trams there.

Borough of Victoria Council

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Local government body covering McMahons Point and parts of North Sydney that was formed in 1871 after seceding from the Borough of St Leonards. Merged with neighbouting councils of St Leonards and East St Leonards boroughs in 1890 to form North Sydney Coucnil.

North Sydney Council

Local government body formed in 1890 through the amalgamation of three local borough councils, East St Leonards, St Leonards and Victoria.

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East St Leonards Council

The first administrative body in North Sydney, providing local utilities and services from 1869 for the Borough of East St Leonards until it was amalgamated into North Sydney Council in 1890.

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