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By tranquil waters 1894

By
Sydney Long
Contributed By
Art Gallery of New South Wales
[Accession No: 689]
(© Estate of Sydney Long. Courtesy Ophthalmic Research Institute of Australia)

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Bark huts and country estates Urban growth in the Cooks River valley
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Rivers and Catchments Swimming
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Cooks River Wolli Creek
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By tranquil waters 1894

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Long, Sydney

Art Gallery of New South Wales

Bark huts and country estates

In their drive to establish country estates and thriving industries in the Cooks River valley during the nineteenth century, European settlers exploited the water, timber and fertile soils of the Cooks River with little appreciation of the impact of their 'improvements'

Urban growth in the Cooks River valley

Urbanisation, industry and pollution transformed the once lush Aboriginal hunting grounds and picturesque locale of the Cooks River valley into the inner city suburban sprawl we know today

Rivers and Catchments

Swimming

Wolli Creek

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Watercourse about 9 kilometres long rising south of Narwee and flowing generally north east into the Cooks River.

Cooks River

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River that flows through south-west Sydney, starting at Graf Park, Yagoona, through to Botany Bay at Kyeemagh. The river was extensively polluted by industry and its course was changed to accommodate the runways of Sydney Airport.

By tranquil waters 1894

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Oil painting by Sydney Long of boys swimming at the junction of the Cooks River and Wolli Creek. It is held in Art Gallery of New South Wales and reproduced on the Dictionary of Sydney courtesy of the Ophthalmic Research Institute of Australia.