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North-eastern residential suburb, on the western shore of North Harbour, where the land rises up to Dobroyd Head. Much of it was virgin bushland until into the 1930s.

Cricket ground adjacent to Balgowlah Golf Course.

Park on Balmain Peninsula.

Point on the Parramatta River west of McMahons Point. It was named after Lieutenant Henry Lidgbird Ball, who discovered Lord Howe Island in 1788.

Harbourside suburb on a peninsula west of central Sydney, named after the First Fleet assistant surgeon, with a working-class and industrial history. From the 1960s, as industry waned, it became popular with professional and business people who wanted to live close to the…

Coal mine established at Birchgrove in 1897 in an attempt to access the rich vein of coal which ran under Sydney from Newcastle to the Illawarra. It was the deepest ever worked in Australia and later produced methane gas, but was not a commercial success.

Duncan Stewart is a descendant of Captain Eber Bunker

Suburb on the eastern part of the Balmain peninsula.

Grant of 550 acres (223 hectares) given to William Balmain in 1800 and gradually subdivided until the last parts were sold c1860.

Power station at Iron Cove that operated from 1909 to 1976. It was partially demolished and incorporated into a residential development in 1998.

Waterfront apartment development on site of former Balmain Power Station.

Harbourside locality in the suburb of Mosman.

Southern suburb of Sydney south of the Georges River and to the west of the Woronora River

Park in Gladesville, adjacent Rockend, the home of Bajo Paterson's grandmother.

Light industrial and residential suburb traversing the Princes Highway north of Rockdale. Its name comes from the railway station which opened in 1906.

South-eastern industrial suburb. Captain James Cook called it 'as a fine meadow as ever was seen' in 1770, but eighteen years later Governor Phillip found it swampy, lacking fresh water and unsheltered.

South-western suburb named for colonial botanist Joseph Banks, now home to an ethnically diverse population. During the Second World War the presence of the US Army Air Force at Bankstown Aerodrome led to the area becoming known as 'Yankstown'.

General aviation aerodrome and business park in the City of Bankstown.

One of Sydney's first major shopping malls, located in Bankstown in Sydney's south-west.