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Sydney Vista - A comprehensive look at the suburbs of Sydney's metropolitan area uncovering interesting facts and history
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Sydney - Sydney also known as the Harbour City is Australia's oldest and largest City
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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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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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This Little Piggy : Il Porcellino is a copy of Pietro Tacca's Wild Boar statue
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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 - Australia's Greatest Icon, the Sydney Opera House, was nineteen years in the making and cost the tax payers millions.
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Sydney General Post Office - More than meets the eyes, the Sydney General Post Office is steeped in controversy
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Macquarie Street Sydney - Macquarie Street has been and always will be the centre of ceremony, society and culture in Sydney.
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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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Bond Stores - The Rocks became the area for merchants and warehouses and these warehouses were known as Bond Stores.
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Metcalfe Bond Stores - The Metcalfe Bond Stores became part of The Rocks landscape transforming from orchard to quarry to warehouses.
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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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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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Cadman's Cottage - Cadman's Cottage, the old boathouse, is Sydney's oldest surviving house
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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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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 - 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 - 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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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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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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Rock Push - The Rock Push were a notorious gang which haunted The Rocks during the late 1800's.
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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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Dawes Point
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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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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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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 - The Barrack Tower in La Perouse is believed to be the oldest customs house in Australia.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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