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Minesweeper built during World War I which changed hands several times before operating from Sydney as a fishing trawler. Requisitioned as a minesweeper in World War II she returned to trawling in 1947 but was smashed on rocks at Little Bay and finally pounded to pieces.

Master millwright from Surrey who arrived in Sydney in early 1793. Employed by the British governement to work as a miller in the colony for three years, he and fellow millwright Thomas Allen were based at Parramatta. Thorp returned to England in 1796

First woman to study Pharmacy at the University of Sydney in 1900. In 1902 Wilson became the first academically trained woman to register as a pharmacist in New South Wales and went into business in Killara. She died in 1919 during the flu epidemic.
 

Public holiday marking the landing of the first fleet in Port Jackson, celebrated in Sydney throughout the nineteenth century as Anniversary Day, and gradually taken up by other states after Federation. The public holiday has been held on 26 January nationwide since 1994.

In 1911 a Japanese expedition bound for Antarctica was forced to turn back by bad weather. In May the expedition arrived in Sydney and set up camp in Parsley Bay.

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…

Largely industrial inner-city suburb located south of Sydney's central business district, named after Princess Alexandra, wife of Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII). By the 1940s, it was the nation's largest industrial district, and called itself the "Birmingham…

Area on Sydney's southern edge governed by Sutherland Shire Council, traditional lands of the Gweagal people, a Dharawal speaking clan. Occupying the area south of Georges River and Botany Bay, it is the second most populous local government area in New South Wales.

Built on Dharug land, Galston provided ironbark and white mahogany to the growing settlement in Sydney, and orchards and farmland as the land was cleared.

One of the largest immigrant groups from Latin America, the Chileans arrived in Sydney in several waves, responding to changing events in their home country. Now joined by students and travellers from Chile, the community maintains close connections with home and culture.

As the embarkation point for many World War I soldiers, Sydney was a centre for recruiting volunteers from all over New South Wales, and also strongly affected by the bitter conscription referenda campaigns of 1916 and 1917, and the subsequent political fallout.

A vinedresser who brought his family to Camden in 1838, Johann Justus (later John Justice) was one of Sydney's earliest German-born immigrants.

Affluent suburb overlooking the harbour five kilometres east of central Sydney. In the nineteenth century it was home to villas built by the colony's emerging plutocracy. Mass suburban development was helped by the extension of the tram line to Bondi Beach in 1914.

Residential and commercial suburb on north shore of Parramatta River, named after the town on the Isle of Wight where Mary Turner, an early resident in the area had been born. It was the third British settlement in Australia after Sydney and Parramatta.

Asylum constructed by the Benevolent Society in 1821 to provide shelter and care to the poor, aged and infirm. Adjacent to the Old Sydney Burial Ground (Devonshire Street Cemetery), it was demolished to make way for the current Central Railway Station in 1901.

Apartment block which was the only element of a high density development plan for the area which was built. Often criticised, it is now listed on the North Sydney heritage register. It contains 144 apartments over 25 levels and is 83 metres high.

New Zealand based shipping line that was at one time the biggest in the southern hemisphere. Their Australian offices at 15 Bridge Street in Sydney were the site of the attempted robbery that led to the Bridge Street Affray in February 1894.

Variety theatre, later used as a cinema, in Pitt Street that was built for George Adams in 1896 as part of the Tattersall's Hotel complex. The building had Sydney's first electric power station installed in the basement to provide light for the theatre.

Public recreation ground at the head of Parsley Bay in Sydney's eastern suburbs that was created by the NSW State Government in 1907 after resuming the land, formerly part of the Wentworth Vaucluse estate, in 1906. The reserve is adminstered by Woollahra Council.

Island in Sydney Harbour given by Arthur Phillip to the crew of the Sirius to grow their vegetables By 1858 it had become a naval base and was joined to the mainland by the construction of the Captain Cook Graving Dock in 1942.