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.
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Known to its Cadigal traditional owners as Ta-Ra, the land that became Dawes Point was Sydney's first observatory and weather station, run by William Dawes. It was fortified to a Greenway design and remained government land. In 1925 part of the fort was demolished for the Sydney Harbour Bridge and most of the land became Dawes Point Park.
