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South Head, Sydney Harbour from Potts Point 1940

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Sydney Ure Smith
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[a1528043 / V1/Har/1940-1949/1]
(Mitchell Library)

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State Library of New South Wales

Elizabeth Bay House

Greek Revival villa considered the finest in the colony. It is constructed of Marulan sandstone and Australian cedar and blackbutt and is perfectly aligned to the position of the sunrise at the winter solstice so that the rising sun bisects the house from front to rear doors. Its garden was once known internationally for its collection of rare species though after subdivision only the grotto remains.

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Elizabeth Bay

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Eastern harbourside suburb named in honour of Governor Lachlan Macquarie's wife Elizabeth. Elizabeth Bay House (1837), designed by John Verge, was once surrounded by gardens but these were subdivided in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Clark Island

Island in Sydney Harbour off Darling Point, part of the Sydney Harbor National Park

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Sydney Harbour islands

Originally 14 sandstone outcrops in the harbour. Five former islands, Garden, Bennelong, Darling, Glebe and Berry Islands, have been joined to the mainland. Two more were joined to form Spectacle Island in the 1860s. The other remaining islands are Shark, Clark, Fort Denison, Goat, Cockatoo, Snapper and Rodd Islands.

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