In February 1788, he selected its location to be Port Jackson ( now Sydney Harbour ).

Phillip also had to adopt a policy towards the Eora Aboriginal people, who lived around the waters of Sydney Harbour.

Point Edward on the west side of Sydney Harbour is the location of Sydport, a former navy base () now converted to commercial use.

Petroleum, bulk coal, and cruise ship facilities are also located in Sydney Harbour.

Highway 125 is an important arterial route around Sydney Harbour in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality.

File: Sydney Harbour aerial view. jpg | Sydney Harbour with Point Edward, Westmount, and downtown Sydney visible.

Some examples are Kingston Harbour in Jamaica, Subic, Zambales in the Philippines ; Sydney Harbour in Australia ; Pearl Harbor in Hawaii ; San Francisco Bay in California ; Visakhapatnam Harbour in Andhra Pradesh, India ; and Halifax Harbour in Nova Scotia, Canada.

* 1788 – The British First Fleet, led by Arthur Phillip, sails into Port Jackson ( Sydney Harbour ) to establish Sydney, the first permanent European settlement on the continent.

* 1932 – The Sydney Harbour Bridge is opened.

He has an apartment in Sydney at the end of the Finger Wharf in Woolloomooloo and a rural property in Nana Glen near Coffs Harbour.

Askin accused the state government of allowing the transport infrastructure of the state to decline and promised to build the Newcastle freeway without a toll, to construct the Eastern Suburbs Railway and to plan for a second crossing of Sydney Harbour.

Next was the " western limb " through Town Hall and Wynyard, which opened in 1932, in conjunction with the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

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.

During the millennium celebrations in 2000, the Sydney Harbour Bridge was lit up with the word " Eternity ", as a tribute to the legacy of Arthur Stace a Sydney artist who for many years inscribed that word on pavements in chalk in beautiful copperplate writing despite the fact that he was illiterate.

On 18 March 2007, the Sydney Harbour Bridge celebrated its 75th anniversary.

On 19 March 2012 the 80th anniversary of the Sydney Harbour Bridge was celebrated with a picnic dedicated to the stories of people with personal connections to the bridge.

Francis de Groot " opening " the Sydney Harbour Bridge, ( 1932 ).

James Michener assessing the Sydney Harbour Bridge in his book " Return to Paradise ", ( 1951 ).

American travel-writer Bill Bryson's impressions of the Sydney Harbour Bridge in his book " Down Under ", ( 2000 ).

* Sydney Harbour Bridge turns 75 – Feature from Daily Telegraph

* Sydney Harbour Bridge – News and Events

* Sydney Harbour Bridge during the Olympic Games, 19 – 26 September 2000 / Loui Seselja

* Picnic on Sydney Harbour Bridge / Sigmate Studio

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

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The University of Sydney in the early 1870s, as viewed from Parramatta Road

Although the judge's 23-year-old daughter Sydney Saffold took responsibility for the postings, the paper was able to use a public records request and determine that the exact times and dates of some of the postings corresponded to the times that the corresponding articles were being viewed on the judge's court-issued computer.

Gates were ordered to be closed two hours before the game began, but contemporary accounts indicate that many more-perhaps thousands-gained other means of access and sat on grandstand roofs or went into the Sydney Showground ( Moore Park ) and viewed the match from the stairways of the main pavilion.

The Illawarra Mercury daily newspaper was increasing its coverage of the Sydney premiership and Illawarra's inclusion was viewed as the best way of reviving the local league.

He was dropped ostensibly for a lack of form, but it was also widely viewed that the England management did not agree with his temperament-he famously knocked his stumps out of the ground after being bowled in the 1988 Sydney Bicentennial Test.

The main façade of the Mitchell Wing, viewed from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney | Botanic Gardens, based on designs prepared by Walter Liberty Vernon.

Author Sydney Billing claimed to have witnessed it, as well as colleagues who were medical doctors in England who viewed it through experimentation, and discussion on the subject matter continues into the present-day, with some claiming to be able to see it on sunny days with clear skies naturally ..

Also from there is the word bung, from the Sydney pidgin English ( and ultimately from the Sydney Aboriginal language ), meaning " dead ", with some extension to " broken " or " useless ".

* Unction of the Sick article from the Sydney, Australia diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia

After his return to England from India in April 1784, Phillip remained in close contact with Townshend, now Lord Sydney, and the Home Office Under Secretary, Evan Nepean.

Lord Sydney, often criticised as an ineffectual incompetent, had made one fundamental decision about the settlement that was to influence it from the start.

** Big Dipper ( Luna Park Sydney ), a wooden roller coaster operating at Luna Park Sydney from 1935 until 1981

** Cyclone ( Dreamworld ), a steel roller coaster which operated as Big Dipper at Luna Park Sydney from 1995 to 2001

Bliss devised Blissymbols while a refugee at the Shanghai Ghetto and Sydney, from 1942 to 1949.

The process was accompanied by numerous objections, notably from the deeply conservatively evangelical Diocese of Sydney which noted the loss of BCP wording and of an explicit ' biblical doctrine of substitutionary atonement '.

He lived alone for several days, searching for food and occasionally sleeping rough, until his brother Sydney returned from the navy.

However, he also often relied on help from his closest collaborators, such as his long-time cinematographer Roland Totheroh, brother Sydney Chaplin and various assistant directors, such as Harry Crocker and Charles Reisner.

* Andrew Doyle, singer-songwriter from Sydney Mines.

The event attracts amateur swimmers from all over the Canaries and Spain, and also swimming professionals such as David Meca and Maarten Van der Weijden, the paralympist Jesús Collado Alarcón who won gold medals for 100m backstroke and butterfly in Athens 2004, and Xavi Torres Ramis, the paralympic champion in Barcelona ' 92, Sydney and Atlanta.

Also as part of international relations, the governor receives letters of credence and of recall from foreign consul-generals appointed to Sydney.

The Sydney-Parramatta Line ran from Sydney terminus, just south from today's Central railway station to the Granville area which was originally known as ' Parramatta Junction '.

Hobart is served by Hobart International Airport with flights to / from Melbourne ( Qantas, Virgin Australia, Jetstar Airways and Tiger Airways Australia ); Sydney ( Qantas, Jetstar and Virgin ); Brisbane ( Virgin ); Gold Coast ( Jetstar ); and Canberra ( Virgin ).

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Commemorating the landing of the First Fleet in Botany Bay, the Sydney Cove medallion was made by Josiah Wedgwood after he was given a sample of clay from Sydney Cove by Sir Joseph Banks, who had received the sample from Governor Arthur Phillip.