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A businessman who married into the Terry family, John Hosking became the first mayor of Sydney.

Statutory body set up under the Local Government (Town and Country Planning) Amendment Act 1945 to coordinate town planning across Sydney. It was made up of delegates from the municipalities and shires of Sydney.

International airline which operated to Sydney in the 1960s and 1970s.

Catholic religious order whose members first arrived in Sydney in 1885.

Lawyer and partner in Allens, one of Sydney's oldest law firms.

Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer who visited Sydney in 1893.

Businessman and judge who served as Mayor of Sydney in 1848.

Presbyterian minister who became one of Sydney's most influential public figures.

Watkin Tench's second book about the new colony at Sydney.

The Church's Sydney Temple in Pennant Hills Road dedicated 1984.

Major tributary of Sydney Harbour, which flows east from Blacktown Creek to meet Port Jackson between Greenwich and Birchgrove. The river is tidal to Charles Street Weir at Parramatta, 30 kilometres from Sydney Heads.

Kinglsey Reeve is a freelance sound designer who is generously creating these aural postcards (the SoundSquiz) of Sydney for the Dictionary of Sydney. To enquire about these works or about commissioning sound designs, contact: …

Pedestrian plaza at the corner of Hunter and Elizabeth Streets, Sydney

Park in Arcadia covering 18.8 hectares, including Sydney turpentine ironbark forest.

Intersection of Pacific Highway with Mount and Miller Streets, North Sydney.

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

Hill 70 kilometres southwest of central Sydney, named for John Hunter.

Beach within Sydney Harbour National Park which contains an Aboriginal midden.

Commemorative plaque that was installed on the corner of Market and Kent Streets between 1984 and 1988 as part of the Sydney Green Plaques Bicentennial project.on the site of Sydney's first traffic lights.

Rock baths, ocean pools and bogey holes have provided Sydney swimmers with 'wild' swimming that is nevertheless protected, linking the suburban with the sublime all along Sydney's coastline.