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Sketch of the coast from Darling Harbour to Elizabeth Bay: showing the grants to Mr McLeay and six other gentlemen. Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed, 16th July 1832

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Thomas Livingstone Mitchell
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National Library of Australia
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Mitchell, Thomas Livingstone

National Library of Australia

Maps

Mills and windmills

Real Estate

Farm Cove

Shallow bay on the southern shore of Sydney Harbour, east of Sydney Cove. The flat land nearby was used by Aboriginal people as an initiation ground, and later became the first farm for the European colony.

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Sydney Cove

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Small bay on the southern shore of Port Jackson, which became the site for the European settlement in Sydney.

Darling Harbour

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Waterway to the west of the city once surrounded by wharves, goods yards, woolstores and factories which contributed enormously to the city's economic wealth. The former rail lines and goods yards were transformed from commercial port to a recreational and pedestrian precinct in the 1980s.

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.

Woolloomooloo

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Once a desirable bayside address east of central Sydney, the area grew more congested and grimy as the wharves expanded and the boarding houses and pubs gave refuge to larrikin gangs and petty criminals. Though now bisected by freeways and rail it is slowly reclaiming its heritage and character with extensive residential development and sympathetic landscaping.

Darlinghurst

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Inner suburb to the east of the city which has been home to both gentry and underclass. The former Darlinghurst Gaol is now the National Art School.

Potts Point

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Small, densely populated inner-eastern suburb, joined to Garden Island in 1942. It contains significant nineteenth-century buildings as well as some of Sydney's earliest apartment buildings in the Art Deco style. It includes the locality of Kings Cross.

Kings Cross

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In the nineteenth century one of Sydney's most prestigious suburbs, it became home to a vibrant bohemian community and later Sydney's red light district. Named for the intersection of Darlinghurst Road, William and Victoria Streets and once called Queens Cross, the area is now a neon lit mecca for tourists and Sydneysiders.

Darlinghurst Gaol

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Sydney's main gaol from its opening in 1841, later used as an internment camp, technical college and art school.

Darling Point

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Wealthy harbourside suburb named for Elizabeth Darling, the wife of New South Wales Governor Ralph Darling. It is the site of Carthona, heritage-listed home of Surveyor-General Thomas Mitchell.

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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Woolloomooloo Bay

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Bay in Sydney Harbour east of Farm Cove.

Woolloomooloo Hill

Rocky ridge extending inland from modern-day Potts Point, first subdivided in 1828 by Governor Darling and occupied by the colony's most prominent citizens.

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Fort Macquarie

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Square castellated fort built on Bennelong Point, incorporating some of the guns taken from HMS Supply.

Millers Point

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Inner-city suburb on the western side of the Harbour Bridge's southern approaches. It was named for the windmills that were built on its heights, and their owner, John Leighton, known as Jack the Miller.

Dawes Point

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Headland on the western side of Sydney Cove.

The Domain

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Park in central Sydney which dates from the colony's earliest days.

Bennelong Point

Rocky outcrop to the east of Sydney Cove, which was a tidal island when Europeans arrived, but was joined to the mainland with rocky rubble in 1818 to provide a basis for Fort Macquarie to be built there. The point is named for Bennelong, who lived in a house on the point in the 1790s.

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