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Sydney Harbour with Garden [ie Goat] Island 1837

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Sydney Harbour with Garden [ie Goat] Island 1837

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Russell, Robert

Architect, surveyor and artist.

National Library of Australia

Built environment

Built over tracks, campsites, rock art and middens used for thousands of years before the dispossession of the Aboriginal people, Sydney's early haphazard development was given form by public buildings. As public transport developed, suburbs spread, and throughout the twentieth century, town planners struggled with developers to direct the form and extent of the city. After World War II, city buildings got taller, outer suburbs sprang up ever further away, and issues of heritage and architecture were contested. In the twenty-first century, concerns about environment, urban density, public transport and renewed infrastructure are driving change.

Goat Island

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Referred to as 'Me-mel' ('eye') by Aboriginal people, Goat Island stands at the entrance to Darling Harbour.

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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