The Marine Atlantic terminal at North Sydney is the terminal for large ferries travelling to Channel-Port aux Basques and seasonally to Argentia on the island of Newfoundland.

This is particularly so in Sydney and Melbourne, where headways on many lines in the core of the network reach 3 – 5 minutes in peaks and 10 – 20 minutes off peak ( about 18 hours a day ) and enter an underground loop for passenger distribution in the city centre ; and where ridership per capita exceeds the sum of metro and commuter rail in comparable North American urban areas such as Toronto, Boston or the San Francisco Bay Area.

* David Fairleigh – Former Rugby League forward, 1994 Rothman's Medal winner, NSW & Australian representative player, North Sydney Bears " Team Of The Century " second-rower, current coach of the Central Coast Bears

* 1918 – The Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia receives a top-secret coded message from Europe ( that would be sent to Ottawa, Ontario and Washington, DC ) that said on November 11, 1918 all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air.

There are also stub tunnels at North Sydney railway station for a never constructed Manly to Mona Vale line.

Sydney Harbour from the air, showing the Opera House, the CBD, Circular Quay, the Bridge, the Parramatta River, North Sydney and Kirribilli in the foreground

The Sydney Harbour Bridge is a steel through arch bridge across Sydney Harbour that carries rail, vehicular, bicycle and pedestrian traffic between the Sydney central business district ( CBD ) and the North Shore.

The bridge was subsequently open to the public to walk southward from Milsons Point or North Sydney.

Sydney Harbour Bridge as viewed from Kirribilli, New South Wales | Kirribilli on the North Shore, with the Sydney Opera House on the left.

* Buildings and roads around North Sydney and Sydney Harbour Bridge, 1958 – 1961 / Wolfgang Sievers

* From sportingpulse. com: " The North Sydney Junior League has extended the mercy rule to include our competitive grades U / 9 to U / 12's.

Stemming back from the 1996 Grand Final loss to North Melbourne, Sydney has established a minor rivalry with the over recent history.

The rivalry was further extended in 2000 when North Melbourne attempted to play " home " games in Sydney to further promote the game of Australian rules football, which was deemed that the Kangaroos were trying to invade Sydney's " territory ".

This was also Kangaroos ' veteran Shannon Grant's last AFL game, and he was given a standing ovation by both Swans and Kangaroos players as he represented both clubs throughout his career ( although it was at North Melbourne where Grant really made his mark in the game ) Their only clash in 2009 ( Round 14, which the Swans won by 15 points to end a four-game losing streak ) was aired into both the Sydney and Brisbane markets rather than the live vs. match which was a high-rating television match around the rest of the country.

* 1996 ( as Sydney Swans ) – defeated by North Melbourne 19. 17 ( 131 ) to 13. 10 ( 88 ); first grand final appearance after relocation

* The first dated ISCF group is started in Australia at North Sydney Boys High School, with the group still running today.

Porter has elementary schools named for him in Greensboro, North Carolina ( William Sydney Porter Elementary ) and Garland, Texas ( O. Henry Elementary ), as well as a middle school in Austin, Texas ( O. Henry Middle School ).

In 1987, Carey was picked up by North Melbourne after a series of events which would have left the Sydney Swans ' recruiting staff slightly red-faced in hindsight.

North went on to win the 1996 premiership, with Carey again a stand out in all three finals games, including the Grand Final against Sydney, where he was runner-up to Glenn Archer in Norm Smith Medal voting.

Statues of Edward can be found throughout the former empire, such as those in Waterloo Place, London ; Centenary Square, Birmingham ; Union Street, Aberdeen ; Queen's Park, Toronto ; North Terrace, Adelaide ; Franklin Square, Hobart ; Queen Victoria Gardens, Melbourne ; Phillips Square, Montreal and outside the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney.

Still many, however, continue to find the legends more memorable than the history, seeing her as a traitor, as may be assumed from a legend that she had a twin sister who went North and the pejorative nickname La Chingada associated with her twin.

Additionally, there is evidence to support the Vinland legend that Vikings reached farther west to the North American continent.

* According to a popular legend, Prince Madog of Gwynedd reaches North America in what is present-day Alabama.

Another legend claims that following the Navigation Acts ( an ordinance by Oliver Cromwell requiring all foreign fleets in the North Sea or the Channel to dip their flag in salute ) the Wilhelmus was sung ( or rather, shouted ) by the sailors on the Dutch flagship Brederode in response to the first warning shot fired by an English fleet under Robert Blake, when their captain Maarten Tromp refused to lower his flag.

In Māori legend, the South Island existed first, as the boat of Maui, while the North Island was the fish that he caught.

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A similar legend claims that the now-extinct Saponi of Person County, North Carolina, are descended from the English colonists of Roanoke Island.

He appears in a legend of the Ngāti Awa, a Māori tribe of the eastern Bay of Plenty in New Zealand's North Island.

Ngaro ( vanished ) is mentioned as a delicacy of the dead in a Māori legend from the far north of the North Island of New Zealand.

Hereward's base was in the Isle of Ely, and according to legend he roamed The Fens, covering North Cambridgeshire, Southern Lincolnshire and West Norfolk, leading popular opposition to William the Conqueror.

The carvings on the totem pole represent four figures from North American First Nations legend: at the top sits Raven, the trickster and creator deity ; he sits on the head of Sunman, who has outstretched arms representing the rays of the sun and who wears a copper ( a type of ceremonial skirt ); Sunman stands on the fearsome witch-spirit Dzunukwa ; at the base is the two-headed warrior sea-serpent, Sisiutl, who has upstretched wings.

According to an ancient legend of the Greshams, the founder of the family, Roger de Gresham, was a foundling abandoned as a new-born baby in long grass in North Norfolk in the 13th century and found there by a woman whose attention was drawn to the child by a grasshopper.

Because Amerike's coat of arms was similar to the flag later adopted by the independent United States, a legend grew that the North American continent had been named for him rather than for Amerigo Vespucci.

In 2003, North Carolina Playwright Keith Smith wrote a one act musical play entitled " My Name is Johnny Appleseed ", which is presented to school children to show that the true story of John Chapman is just as interesting as the mythical figure, who is shrouded in legend.

In local mythology, the site of Harlech Castle in North Wales is associated with the legend of Branwen, a Welsh princess, but there is no evidence for a native Welsh fortification having been built there.

This legend is found preserved in the writings of Aelian: " This god has as priests the sons of Boreas ( North Wind ) and Chione ( Snow ), three in number, brothers by birth, and six cubits in height 3 metres.

After the season, the Bobcats announced that NBA legend and North Carolina native Michael Jordan had bought a minority stake in the team, becoming the second-largest shareholder and head of basketball operations.

Ri Chirin, a leading North Korean historian of ancient Korea, argued that the Gija legend had been forged in Han times when the Chinese started to occupy part of Joseon.

Coel Hen, whose epithet can be translated as " the Old " or " the Ancestor ", is noted in Welsh legend as a leader in the Hen Ogledd or " Old North ", the Brythonic-speaking parts of southern Scotland and northern England during or after the period of the Roman withdrawal.

The writer Sigmund Eisner concluded that the name Tristan comes from Drust, son of Talorc, but that the legend of Tristan as we know it, was gathered together by an Irish monk living in North Britain around the early eighth century.

Critical historians treated this legend as an idle tale and denied the historicity of King Gundaphorus until modern archeology established him as an important figure in North India in the latter half of the 1st century.

Meirionnydd was a sub-kingdom of Gwynedd, founded according to legend by Meirion, a grandson of Cunedda, a warrior-prince who brought his family to Wales from the ' Old North ' ( southern Scotland today ), probably in the early 5th century.

Algerian legend claims that the ancestors of the present Maltese, together with the first Algerians, fled from their original homeland of Aram, with some choosing to settle in Malta and others in North Africa, which would suggest that the prototypical Maltese culture had Aramaean origins.

In Māori legend, Taranaki is a mountain being that lived peacefully for many centuries in the centre of New Zealand's North Island with three other mountains, Tongariro, Ngauruhoe and Ruapehu.

The film examines and refutes the urban legend of the alleged introduction of HIV to North America by a single individual, Gaëtan Dugas.