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Parsley Bay, Sydney, N.S.W. c1910

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Parsley Bay, Sydney, N.S.W. c1910

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National Museum of Australia

[1986.0117.7557]

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Parsley Bay: ‘One of the people’s playgrounds’

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National Parks and Reserves Recreation and Sport

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Parsley Bay Sydney Harbour

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Parsley Bay Reserve Vaucluse

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National Museum of Australia

The National Museum of Australia is a social history museum that explores the land, nation and people of Australia. The museum focuses on Indigenous histories and cultures, histories of European settlement and our interaction with the environment.

Parsley Bay: ‘One of the people’s playgrounds’

Parsley Bay is an inlet of Sydney Harbour bordered by Point Seymour and Village Point, and is the traditional land of the Birrabirragal people. In 1907 the bay and immediate surrounds became a public reserve, and it has remained ‘one of the people’s playgrounds’ ever since.

National Parks and Reserves

Recreation and Sport

Parsley Bay

Narrow bay in the eastern suburbs with parkland and suspension bridge that is thought to have been named after the profusion of a native plant resembling parsley growing there.

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Vaucluse

Eastern suburb located on South Head named after Vaucluse House. It is one of Sydney's most expensive suburbs.

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Sydney Harbour

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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.

Parsley Bay Reserve

Public recreation ground at the head of Parsley Bay in Sydney's eastern suburbs that was created by the NSW State Government in 1907 after resuming the land, formerly part of the Wentworth Vaucluse estate, in 1906. The reserve is adminstered by Woollahra Council.

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