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Swimmers on Puck's Wharf c1925

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Swimmers on Puck's Wharf c1925

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City of Botany Bay Library and Museum Services

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Booralee fishing town

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Cooks River

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City of Botany Bay Library and Museum Services

The City of Botany Bay Libraries provide library services to a community of about 36,000 with branches located at Eastgardens and Mascot. The George Hanna Memorial Museum exhibits a wide range of social history that reflects the broad Botany Bay community. Exhibitions are changed regularly and focus on the local area - wetlands, sport, industry, market gardens and multiculturalism are just some of the topics covered.

Booralee fishing town

Just as the Kameygal people had enjoyed the rich sea life of Botany Bay, Booralee thrived as a vibrant fishing village for over a century until overfishing and pollution saw the demise of the fishing industry.

Rivers and Catchments

Swimming

Wharves

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.

Booralee

Village established in the 1830s by the families which made their livings in the rich fishing grounds of Botany Bay. Few weatherboard cottages remain and the area itself no longer has access to the bay.

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