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Seaplane on the water at Rose Bay c1930

Seaplane on the water at Rose Bay c1930

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Rose Bay Airport

Rose Bay Airport, on Sydney Harbour, was Sydney's first international airport for sea boats. Opening in 1937, Rose Bay Airport catered to the Empire Flying Boat and Air Mail Service, World War Two Catalina flying boats and Qantas and Ansett services until 1974 when services to Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island ended. In 2014, the Airport is used by a charter company.

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The largest arm of Port Jackson, which extends west from the Heads past Balmain and meets the estuaries of the Lane Cove and Parramatta rivers.

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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