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Shark Island
Shark Island sits in Sydney Harbour, just 1km from Rose Bay. In 1945 the first Sydney to Hobart race was launched from its banks.
Kingsley, Garrett Patrick Dominic
Sydney artist who exhibited with the XV Independent Group.
Allen Jack and Cottier
Architectural firm with offices in Sydney and Beijing, China.
de Muro Lomanto, Enzo
Italian tenor who visited Sydney on tour in 1928.
Buckle, Carfrae and Turner
Architectural firm in Sydney in the 1920s and 1930s.
Cheltenham Girls High School
Public high school in north-western Sydney established in 1958
Jade Tree Gift Shop
Shop in Rowe Street Sydney run by Maude Slessor
The Hills Shire Council
Council that governs the Hills Shire in Sydney's north-west.
Exchange Coffee Palace
Temperance hotel and coffee palace in Sussex Street, Sydney, open by 1909 and still operating as a residential hotel in the 1950s, when it was owned by the Sydney County Council.
North Head
Sandstone headland on the northern edge of Sydney Harbour.
Barden Ridge
Southern suburb of Sydney located on the Woronora River
Don John of Austria
Opera composed in Sydney and first performed in 1847.
Empire Hotel
Hotel which published its own travel guide to Sydney.
Burragorang Valley
Valley in western Sydney between Camden and Lake Burragorang.
Milperra Bridge
Bridge across the Georges River in south west Sydney.
Haslams Creek
Creek flowing through Sydney Olympic Park into Homebush Bay.
Hornsby Plateau
Sandstone plateau lying to the north of Sydney Harbour.
Technical and Working Men's College
Sydney's first technical college, which grew out of the lectures at the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts, and flourished for four years before the colonial government took over technical education.