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Peats Ferry wharf and steamers, decorated for the opening of the Hawkesbury Railway Bridge 1 May 1889

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Henry King
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Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences
[85/1285-837]
(Tyrrell Collection)

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Dangar Island Hawkesbury River
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George Peat's ferry
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Hawkesbury River (Dyarubbin)
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Kangaroo Point Hornsby Peats Ferry
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King, Henry

Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences

Established in 1879, the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences' venues include the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney Observatory and Museums Discovery Centre at Castle Hill.

Dangar Island

Home to Aboriginal people until at least 1828, the island called Mullet Island by Arthur Phillip was leased to Andrew Thompson, salt maker, in the 1790s. In the 1860s it was bought by the Dangar family, becoming Dangar Island officially in 1922, by which time it had been sold and subdivided. It is now a residential community and holiday island.

Hawkesbury River

The Hawkesbury River, or Dyarubbin, in Sydney's north and west, was an important transport route for Aboriginal people and colonists. Its use changed as first ferry, then road and rail bridges opened up land to the north and west.

Rivers and Catchments

Wharves

Ferries

Celebrations

George Peat's ferry

Punt used by George Peat in the 1840s to allow travel across the Hawkesbury to Kangaroo Point.

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Hawkesbury River (Dyarubbin)

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River that runs for 120 kilometres from the confluence of the Nepean and Grose rivers west of Sydney to Broken Bay north of Sydney. The Darug and Darkinjung people who lived along the river called it Dyarubbin.

Kangaroo Point Hornsby

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Recreational area on the southern shore of the Hawkesbury River at Brooklyn.

Peats Ferry

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Area around the ferry which operated across the Hawkesbury near Brooklyn until 1945. The ferry had been established in 1840 by George Peat.

First Hawkesbury River railway bridge

Single line railway bridge assembled on Dangar Island and constructed across the river between 1886 and 1889. Structural cracks and deterioration in the 1930s resulted in its replacement in the 1940s 60 metres west of the first bridge.

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