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The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
Since opening in the old Maritime Services Board building at Sydney Cove in 1991, the Museum of Contemporary Art has taken its place among other Sydney's icons. Located on one of Sydney's, and indeed Australia's, most historically laden sites, the MCA brought contemporary art…
Clontarf marina
Berth and slipway services for some of Sydney's wealthy mariners.
Eastern Distributor
Motorway which links Sydney's central business district with the airport.
General Steam Screw Ship Company
British company which began regular voyages to Sydney in 1853.
Union Box and Timber Company
Manufacturing company in inner-city Sydney in the early twentieth century.
HMAS Penguin
Royal Australian Navy training establishment on Middle Head, Sydney Harbour.
Madsen building
Gothic revival style research building at the University of Sydney.
Roma House
Office building at 537-543 George Street, Sydney, near Liverpool Street.
Village Point
Headland on Sydney Harbour to the east of Parsley Bay.
Royal National Park
Australia's first national park, on the coast south of Sydney.
Wynyard Park
Park in central Sydney, originally site of barracks parade ground.
St Andrew's College
Residential college within Sydney University constructed between 1874 and 1876.
Three Tuns Tavern
Hotel on the corner of Elizabeth and King streets Sydney.
Royal Easter Show
Agricultural show held annually in Sydney annually since the 1850s.
Wilshire, James Robert
Sydney's second mayor was a prosperous tanner with radical views.
73rd Regiment
British Army regiment of which the 1st Battalion landed in Sydney on 1 January 1810 and took over duties from the New South Wales Corps (102nd Regiment) as the garrison in Sydney.
Opera House King Street
Nineteenth-century theatre at King and York streets in central Sydney.
Olson, Ray
Press photographer in Sydney in the mid 20th century.
State Transit Authority of New South Wales
State government authority responsible for Sydney and Newcastle bus services.
Merriman, James
A self-made man of business, James Merriman was Sydney's Mayor three times.