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Map of that part of the North Shore of Port Jackson which is opposite to Sydney 1828

By
John Thompson
Thomas Livingstone Mitchell
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[A 331B. opp p228]
(From 'IIlustrations from the Report upon the progress made in roads and in the construction of public works in New South Wales from the year 1827 to June 1855': maps and sketches / by T.L. Mitchell) (Mitchell Library)

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Bennelong Point Blues Point Dawes Point Middle Harbour Port Jackson Sydney Cove Sydney Harbour
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Thompson, John

Surveyor whose arrival in New South Wales was described by TL Mitchell, with whom he worked as Assistant Surveyor, as a 'rare and fortunate accident'. He was the Deputy Surveyor-General 1853-1859.

Mitchell, Thomas Livingstone

State Library of New South Wales

North Sydney

Part of Cammeraygal country, North Sydney was established by the 1840s as a township on the northern shore of the harbour. It became popular with professionals and skilled tradespeople, developing as a commercial centre for the north shore. Postwar development transformed the central business district with high rise and the loss of many nineteenth-century buildings.

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Suburbanisation

Port Jackson

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Drowned river valley that forms Sydney Harbour and includes North Harbour and Middle Harbour. Long inhabited by the Gadigal, Cammeraygal, Wangal and Eora people, Port Jackson was renamed by Captain Cook in 1770, although his ship did not enter the Heads.

Lavender Bay

Small harbourside suburb on Sydney's lower north shore between Blues Point and Milsons Point. The rail line running through it once terminated at the old Milsons Point station before the Sydney Harbour Bridge was built.

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Milsons Point

Located on Sydney Harbour, adjacent to the northern approaches of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Milsons Point played an important role in the development of the lower north shore.

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Blues Point

Headland on the northern shore of Sydney Harbour, named for boatman Billy Blue who was granted 80 acres there in 1817.

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Blues Point

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Locality on Sydney Harbour named for mariner Billy Blue.

Neutral Bay

Lower north shore harbourside suburb, named by Governor Phillip when he decreed in 1789 that all non-British 'neutral' ships visiting Port Jackson were to anchor there. Since the 1960s many apartment buildings and town houses have been built due to its desirable inner city location.

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St Leonards

Lower north shore suburb, named either after British statesman Lord Sydney of St Leonards, or by surveyor general Thomas Mitchell after the town in England. In recent years it has grown into a major business district, as well as being the location of the Royal North Shore Hospital.

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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.

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.

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.

Dawes Point

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Headland on the western side of Sydney Cove.

Dawes Point

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Harbourside suburb at the southern end of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, adjacent to The Rocks. From the earliest days of the colony it was a significant as the site of the first observatory and one of the earliest gun placements.

Kirribilli

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North Shore residential suburb built on Cammeraygal land in North Sydney local government area. Now containing the residences of the Prime Minister (Kirribilli House) and the Governor-General (Admiralty House), its uninterrupted views across the Harbour make it one of Sydney's most desirable suburbs.

Fort Macquarie

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

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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Middle Harbour

Suburb on the north shore of Sydney, occupying the area south of the Spit Bridge.

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Middle Harbour

An arm of Port Jackson, extending north-west from the Heads with its headwaters in Garigal National Park.

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Thrupp, Alfred

Early landowner at Kurraba Point and Neutral Bay who resettled in Tasmania.

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Blue, Billy

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Early ferry operator on North Shore.

Ryan, Robert

Member of the New South Wales Corp who was granted a large holding on the north shore at Kirribilli in 1800.

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Wollstonecraft

Harbourside north shore residential suburb. It is named for Edward Wollstonecraft, nephew of the early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and cousin to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the author of Frankenstein.

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Wollstonecraft, Edward

Merchant and landowner in nineteenth-century Sydney. His home Crows Nest had a commanding view across Sydney Harbour. He was the nephew of the early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and cousin to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the author of Frankenstein.

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North Sydney

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Sydney's second high-rise business district, at the northern end of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, result of a building boom from the 1960s to the 1980s.

McMahons Point

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North shore harbourside suburb immediately to the west of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, named for Michael McMahon, a brush and comb manufacturer who settled there in the 1860s. Before the bridge was built, ferries from Circular Quay would meet trams there.