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Bay or cove

Type - Bay or cove
Apple Tree Bay
Athol Bay
Balls Head Bay
Balmain Cove
Berrys Bay
Blackwattle Bay
Botany Bay
Bray's Bay
Brisbane Water
Broken Bay
Cabbage Tree Bay
Camp Cove
Campbell's Cove
Careening Cove
Chowder Bay
Coba Bay
Cockle Bay
Crater Cove
Diamond Bay
Farm Cove
Fisher Bay
Five Dock Bay
Flint & Steel Bay
Frenchmans Bay
Glades Bay
Gore Cove
Grose Bay
Hen and Chicken Bay
Iron Cove
Jew Fish Bay
Johnstons Bay
Kerosene Bay
Kogarah Bay
Lady Bay
Little Sirius Cove
Long Bay
Long Bay, Middle Harbour
Looking Glass Bay
Mackenzies Bay
Major's Bay
Middle Harbour
Morrisons Bay
Mosman Bay
Neverfail Bay
Oatley Bay
Oyster Bay
Parsley Bay
Peach Tree Bay
Peats Bight
Pittwater
Port Hacking
Port Jackson
Powder Hulk Bay
Pyrmont Bay
Quakers Hat Bay
Rozelle Bay
Rushcutters Bay
Scylla Bay
Shipwrights Bay
Sydney Cove
Sydney Harbour
Taylors Bay
Vaucluse Bay
Walsh Bay
Weeney Bay
Wentworth Bay
White Bay
Willoughby Bay
Woodford Bay
Woolloomooloo Bay
Woolooware Bay
Yaralla Bay
Yarra Bay

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Bay or cove

Apple Tree Bay

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Inlet on the western shore of Cowan Creek, in Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park.

Athol Bay

Bay below Taronga Zoo at Mosman.

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Balls Head Bay

Home to a local Aboriginal community until 191, land was resumed during World War I and a Quarantine Depot established. The area is now zoned as open space.

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Balmain Cove

Bay on the Parramatta River on the western edge of Birchgrove.

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Berrys Bay

Small bay on the north shore of Sydney Harbour between Balls Head and Blues Point.

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Blackwattle Bay

Bay on the southern shore of Sydney Harbour, west of Darling Harbour and east of Rozelle Bay.

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Botany Bay

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Large bay south of the city of Sydney, into which the Cooks and Georges rivers run.

Bray's Bay

Bay on the Parramatta River between Rhodes and Mortlake.

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Brisbane Water

Northern arm of Broken Bay named after Sir Thomas Brisbane, Governor of New South Wales between 1820 and 1825.

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Broken Bay

Large inlet of the Pacific Ocean located about 50 kilometres north of Port Jackson.

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Cabbage Tree Bay

Protected north and west facing bay with a diversity of marine habitats and species.

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Camp Cove

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Small bay just inside South Head of Sydney Harbour, north of Watsons Bay.

Campbell's Cove

Small cove on western side of Sydney Cove between the Overseas Passenger Terminal and Dawes Point, named for the merchant Robert Campbell, who built his wharf and warehouses and an Indian-style bungalow there.

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Careening Cove

Cove at Kirribilli named for the practice of cleaning, or careening, vessels in the early days of settlement.

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Chowder Bay

Bay on Sydney Harbour south of Georges Head. Named for the preferred food of the American whalers who used the area in the nineteenth century.

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Coba Bay

Bay about 2 kilometres south west of Pelican Island.

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Cockle Bay

Small bay in Darling Harbour to the west of central Sydney. The bay was an important site for shipping and industry during the nineteenth century.

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Crater Cove

Bay in North Harbour at Balgowlah surrounded by Sydney Harbour National Park.

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Diamond Bay

A bay about 1 kilometres south west of Macquarie Lighthouse and about 3 kilometres east of Point Piper.

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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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Fisher Bay

Bay to the east of Spit Bridge.

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Five Dock Bay

A bay about 5 kilometres south of Lane Cove and about 2 kilometres north east of Five Dock which was named because of dock-like indentations of the point.

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Flint & Steel Bay

Bay on the west of the Lambert Peninsula in the Hawkesbury River.

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Frenchmans Bay

Bay within Botany Bay to the west of La Perouse.

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Glades Bay

Bay on the Parramatta River at Gladesville.

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Gore Cove

Bay between Greenwich peninsula and Berry Island.

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Grose Bay

An early name for what is now known as Mort Bay. It was named after Major Francis Grose who granted the land to Captain David Collins in 1794.

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Hen and Chicken Bay

Bay on the Parramatta River 8 kilometres west of Sydney, surrounded by the suburbs of Abbotsford, Drummoyne, Wareemba, Five Dock, Canada Bay, Concord and Cabarita.

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Iron Cove

Bay of the Parramatta River southwest of Longnose Point and five kilometres west of the centre of Sydney. Iron Cove is one of the most polluted areas of Port Jackson.

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Jew Fish Bay

Bay on the north side of Georges River adjoining Oatley Park 2 kilometres south west of Oatley.

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Johnstons Bay

Bay between Rozelle and Pyrmont first spanned by the Glebe Island Bridge, and later the Anzac Bridge.

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Kerosene Bay

Small bay at Wollstonecraft within Balls Head Bay.

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Kogarah Bay

Long inlet on the north bank of the Georges River, between Blakehurst and Sans Souci.

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Lady Bay

Bay about 2 kilometres east of Georges Heights and about 3 kilometres south west of Smedleys Point. It was used for bathing by the ladies resident at Macquarie Lighthouse.

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Little Sirius Cove

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Cove at Mosman, to the east of Mosman Bay.

Long Bay

Inlet south of Sydney harbour at Malabar.

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Long Bay, Middle Harbour

Bay within Middle Harbour about 3 kilometres north east of North Sydney.

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Looking Glass Bay

Bay on Parramatta River about 3 kilometres north east of Concord.

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Mackenzies Bay

Bay between Tamarama and Bondi.

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Major's Bay

Bay in the Parramatta River west of Mortlake.

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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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Morrisons Bay

Bay on Parramatta River between Tennyson Point and Putney.

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Mosman Bay

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Sheltered bay on Sydney's north shore, named for Archibald Mosman, whaler. Earlier known as Great Sirius Cove after the HMS Sirius that was careened there in 1789.

Neverfail Bay

Bay on the Georges River at Oatley.

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Oatley Bay

Bay off the Georges River about 3 kilometres west of Blakehurst.

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Oyster Bay

Bay on the southern side of the Georges River.

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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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Peach Tree Bay

Bay within Middle Harbour about 1 kilometre north east of Fig Tree Point.

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Peats Bight

Small bay on the southern side of the Hawkesbury River west of Brooklyn.

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Pittwater

Body of water stretching south from Broken Bay parallel to the coast, west of Sydney's northern beach suburbs.

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Port Hacking

Estuary through which flows the Hacking River on the southern outskirts of Sydney.

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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.

Powder Hulk Bay

Bay in Middle Harbour west of Seaforth.

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Pyrmont Bay

Bay on the west side of Darling Harbour, adjacent to the Australian National Maritime Museum

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Quakers Hat Bay

Bay on Middle Harbour to the west of the Spit Bridge.

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Rozelle Bay

Small bay east of Blackwattle Bay in Sydney Harbour, surrounded by Rozelle, Annandale and Glebe. Much of the natural shoreline of the bay has been extended by land reclaimed for maritime use.

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Rushcutters Bay

Bay about two kilometres east of Sydney Cove so named because convicts cut rushes there for thatching. Now noted as the site of a major harbour marina.

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Scylla Bay

Bay on the southern shore of the Georges Rives at Como, much of which was reclaimed for playing fields during the 1930s Depression.

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Shipwrights Bay

Bay on the Georges River adjacent to Tom Uglys Bridge.

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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.

Taylors Bay

Bay on Sydney's north shore east of Bradleys Head at Mosman.

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Vaucluse Bay

Small bay in the eastern suburbs below Vaucluse House.

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Walsh Bay

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Bay on the western side of Dawes Point in Sydney Harbour, west of Sydney Cove.

Weeney Bay

Mangrove swamp and bay wrapped by Towra Point Nature Reserve north of Cronulla.

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Wentworth Bay

Inlet on the western shore of Homebush Bay which was reclaimed for industrial development.

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White Bay

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Bay in Sydney Harbour adjacent to Rozelle and Balmain, dominated by the former White Bay Power Station.

Willoughby Bay

Bay at south western end of Long Bay, Middle Harbour.

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Woodford Bay

Bay on the Lane Cove River at Longueville.

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Woolloomooloo Bay

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Bay in Sydney Harbour east of Farm Cove.

Woolooware Bay

A bay on the Georges River between Taren Point and Pelican Point about two km north west of Woolooware.

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Yaralla Bay

Bay on the Parramatta River between Mortlake and Rhodes.

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Yarra Bay

Bay at the head of Botany Bay.

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