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• About GlobeVista
  About GlobeVista : GlobeVista is an online media company specialising in "New Media" applications, including the capture and deliver of online images, video, content and research over the internet.
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• Argyle Cut
  Argyle Cut - Blast It !: The Argyle Cut was just another horror job for the convicts in Sydney's The Rock district
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• Argyle Stores
  Argyle Stores - The bond stores housed merchandise such as tea, spirits, cloth and sugar and was the hub of Sydney's commercial and maritime operations during the 1800's.
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• Australian Steam Navigation Company
  Australian Steam Navigation Company - The ASN Building (Australian Steam Navigation Company Building) or Ordnance Bond Stores are located on Hickson Road at The Rocks in Sydney.
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• Bare Island
  Bare Island - The concrete fort on Bare Island was built between 1881-1885 to guard against foreign invasion and possible attacks on the colony's water supply
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• Barrack Tower
  Barrack Tower - The Barrack Tower in La Perouse is believed to be the oldest customs house in Australia.
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• Bond Stores
  Bond Stores - The Rocks became the area for merchants and warehouses and these warehouses were known as Bond Stores.
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• Botany Bay
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• Bubonic Plague in Sydney
  Bubonic Plague in Sydney - In 1900 the water front areas of Sydney were hit with the bubonic plague, claiming 103 victims.
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• Cadmans Cottage
  Cadman's Cottage - Cadman's Cottage, the old boathouse, is Sydney's oldest surviving house
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• Captain Collet Barker
  Captain Collet Barker - Captain Collet Barker climbed a large sand dune, took some bearings, waved to his party and dissappeared forever.
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• Captain Cook Monument
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• Church of St James
  Church of St James - Designed by an Ex- Convict, Francis Greenaway, the Church of St James is Sydney's oldest surviving church building
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• Darling Harbour
  Darling Harbour - Darling Harbour became the Australia's industrial hub during the 1800's but container shipping destroyed its commercial viability and it fell into ruins.
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• Dawes Point
  Dawes Point
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• Disclaimer
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• Fort Denison
  Convicts Behaving Badly: The first Europeans in Australia used the island, Fort Denison, as a place of punishment for convicts. The Martello Tower was one of the last to be built in the world.
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• Fortune of War Hotel
  Fortune of War Hotel - The Fortune of War Hotel at The Rocks claims to hold the longest continuous liquor licence in Sydney
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• Garden Palace
  Garden Palace - Great balls of fire, The Garden Palace was the grandest building in Australia until it went up in smoke three years after being completed.
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• Garrison Church
  Garrison Church - The Garrison Church was the first official military church where the Red Coats were regular participants of morning prayers
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• George Street North Police Station
  George Street North Police Station - The George Street police station was designed by colonial architect James Barnet and operated from 1882 to 1974.
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• Hero of Waterloo
  Hero of Waterloo - One of the oldest pubs in Sydney, Hero of Waterloo, was rumored to have doubled as a rum smuggling business during the mid 1800's.
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• Historical Figures of Sydney
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• Sydney Vista
  Sydney Vista - A comprehensive look at the suburbs of Sydney's metropolitan area uncovering interesting facts and history
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• Il Porcellino
  This Little Piggy : Il Porcellino is a copy of Pietro Tacca's Wild Boar statue
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• James Barnet
  James Barnet - In 1865 James Barnet became New South Wales Colonial Architect and was the first architect to install a telephone in a government office
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• La Perouse
  La Perous - The French Twist : La Perouse was named in honour of French Navigator Jean- Francois de Galaup de La Perouse
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• La Perouse Memorial
  La Perouse Memorial - The La Perouse Memorial was erected in honour of missing French naval officer and explorer:
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• Lachlan Macquarie
  Lachlan Macquarie - Governor Macquarie was responsible for the construction of Sydney's first public buildings and was responsible for setting the boundaries of Sydney's grid of streets.
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• Lilyvale
  Lilyvale - Lilyvale is located on 176 Cumberland Street in Sydney, New South Wales and was built in c.1845 for innkeeper Michael Farrell.
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• Luna Park Sydney
  Luna Park Sydney - The entrance to Luna Park has become one of Sydney's most recognised icons , featuring a giant face of the moon
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• Macquarie Street Sydney
  Macquarie Street Sydney - Macquarie Street has been and always will be the centre of ceremony, society and culture in Sydney.
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• MartelloTowers
  Martello Towers : Featuring wooden nails, the Martello Tower became popular after British military were impressed with the defense design capabilities they witnessed off the island of Corsica in 1794.
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• Mary Mackillop Place
  Mary MacKillop is Australia's first and only Saint.
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• Matthew Flinders
  Matthew Flinders - Explorer , Mapmaker, Spy ? : Matthew Flinders was the first person to circumnavigate the Australian Continent (New Holland) in the ship 'Investigator', in 1802.
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• Metcalfe Bond Stores
  Metcalfe Bond Stores - The Metcalfe Bond Stores became part of The Rocks landscape transforming from orchard to quarry to warehouses.
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• Milsons Point
  Milsons Point - Ferry Tale : Milsons Point was originally run by harbour waterman, Billy Blue, from 1817-1834
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• Suburb of North Sydney
  Suburb of North Sydney - What no shopping !: The suburb of North Sydney is the second largest concentration of office buildings in New South Wales
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• North Sydney Olympic Pool
  North Sydney Olympic Pool - Believe it or not the "State-of-the-Art"North Sydney Olympic Pool was orginally filled with water pumped in from the harbour
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• Nurse's Walk
  Nurse's Walk - In Sickness And In Health the Nurse's Walk was named in honour of the nurses that worked the hard shifts at the colony's first makeshift hospital in Sydney.
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• References
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• Rock Push
  Rock Push - The Rock Push were a notorious gang which haunted The Rocks during the late 1800's.
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• Sir Joseph Banks
  Sir Joseph Banks - Sir Joseph Banks was born in England in 1743 and became a well known explorer and botanist in Australia.
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• Site Map
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• Sydney
  Sydney - Sydney also known as the Harbour City is Australia's oldest and largest City
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• Sydney General Post Office
  Sydney General Post Office - More than meets the eyes, the Sydney General Post Office is steeped in controversy
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• Sydney Harbour Bridge
  Sydney Harbour Bridge - Old Coat Hanger, Sydney Harbour Bridge, is the world's largest steel arch bridge but not the longest !
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• sydney opera house
  Sydney Opera House - Australia's Greatest Icon, the Sydney Opera House, was nineteen years in the making and cost the tax payers millions.
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• The Rocks
  The Rocks - In the early years The Rocks in Sydney was notorious for gangs, thugs and the bubonic plague.
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