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

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: …

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.

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.

Crematorium and memorial gardens on Sydney's north shore, opened in 1933.

Multi-purpose indoor sporting arena at Sydney Olumpic Park constructed in 1984.

Park in central Sydney which dates from the colony's earliest days.

Sandstone tower lighthouse closest to the southern entrance to Sydney Harbour.

A convict-built 3.6-kilometre tunnel that brought water to Sydney from 1830.

Wharf where passenger ferries from Sydney landed from 1839 to 1939.

National park north-west of Sydney on site of Thomas Arndell's farm.

Railway station on the original rail line between Sydney and Parramatta.

Railway station in Sydney's south on the Illawarra and Cronulla lines.

Canadian who was the second woman to practice medicine in Sydney after registering with the Medical Board of NSW on 11 May 1892. She and her husband left Sydney to establish a joint practice in Bellingen.

Sculler from Grafton who trained in Sydney and won a world championship race in Sydney in 1888 and London in 1889. On his return to Australia later in 1889 he contracted typhoid and died in Melbourne.

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.

Mainly underground passenger railway line beneath the Sydney central business district.

Area on the eastern shore of Sydney Cove to Bennelong Point.

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

Legislation to provide for the construction of electric railways in Sydney.