Railway connections between the port of Sydney to Canadian National Railway in Truro are maintained by the Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway.

* National Museum of Australia The Sydney Cove Medallion ( Flash required for close-up viewing ).

In Australia, the Royal National Park was established just south of Sydney in 1879, becoming the world's second official national park.

He is also co-owner of the South Sydney Rabbitohs, an Australian National Rugby League team.

Another sporting team that has adopted the cockerel as its emblem is the National Rugby League team, the Sydney Roosters, in Australia.

QS World University Rankings 2011-2012 placed the University of Sydney 38th in the world and 3rd in Australia behind the University of Melbourne ( 31st ), and behind the Australian National University which is ranked 26th in the world.

** Airliner VH-UHH ( Stinson ) goes down over Lamington National Park, bound for Sydney, killing five people.

New Zealand initially expressed interest in joining the proposed Federation of the Australian colonies, attending the 1891 National Australia Convention in Sydney.

Many Superb Lyrebirds live in the Dandenong Ranges National Park and Kinglake National Park around Melbourne, the Royal National Park and Illawarra region south of Sydney and in many other parks along the east coast of Australia as well as non protected bushland.

One researcher, Sydney Curtis, has recorded flute-like lyrebird calls in the vicinity of the New England National Park.

* Discover Australia's National Parks, Robert Raymond, Macmillan, Sydney, 1985

Portrait of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin, Castlecrag, Sydney, 27 July 1930, National Library of Australia

Performance of Aboriginal song and dance in the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney with traditional instrument, the Didgeridoo.

On 19 April 2012, Bashir was presented with the insignia of a Grand Cordon of the National Order of the Cedar by the President of Lebanon, General Michel Suleiman, at Government House, Sydney, during his state visit to Australia.

Sydney has a range of museums including those based on visual art such as the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the White Rabbit Gallery, Artspace Sydney, the Brett Whiteley Studio ; science and technology such as the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney Observatory, Sydney Tramway Museum, Australian National Maritime Museum and Australian Museum ; and history such as the Museum of Sydney.

Fudan University has established exchange relationships with more than 200 universities and research institutions in about 30 countries and regions, including Oklahoma State University, Beloit College, Washington University in St. Louis, Harvard University, Yale University, Trinity College ( Connecticut ), Tulane University, Durham University Business School, Columbia University, University of California, Berkeley, University of Rochester, Georgetown University, Instituto de Empresa ( IE Business School ), University of California, Los Angeles, University of California, San Diego, University of California, Irvine, the University of Toronto, Queen's University at Kingston, Canada, University of Sydney, Rhodes University, K. U. Leuven at Leuven, Flanders, Europe, Tokyo University, National University of Singapore, the London School of Economics, the University of Manchester, ESSEC, University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, Sciences Po Paris and Institut d ' études politiques de Lille.

* Sydney Harbour National Park

Abercrombie River National Park is a national park in New South Wales, Australia, located 138 km west of Sydney.

Barrington Tops is a National Park in the Hunter Valley, approximately north of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia.

** 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

An example of a hockey field – Sydney Olympic Park Hockey Centre 2000

* 1979 – The Ghost Train Fire at Luna Park Sydney ( New South Wales, Australia ) kills seven.

In 2012, the new extended segment of the Sydney Motorsport Park ( originally called the Long Circuit ) was re-named the Brabham Circuit, as was the front straight, named the Brabham Straight, on the eve of the Muscle Car Masters.

Macquarie University is an Australian public teaching and research university located in Sydney, with its main campus situated in Macquarie Park.

Following the re-release of their album At First Sight, Violets Are Blue and the release of the Mushroom Soup: The Citadel Years in 2003, The Stems found themselves playing to packed houses across the country, touring Europe, playing the prestigious " Little Stevens Underground Garage Festival " in August 2005, and then at the " Come Together Festival " at Sydney ’ s Luna Park with the cream of Australia ’ s newest bands in September 2005.

Major greyhound racing venues include Wentworth Park in Sydney, Cannington Park in Perth, Greyhound Park in Adelaide, Albion Park in Brisbane and Sandown Park in Melbourne.

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.

2008 saw the event moved to Oran Park Raceway as a dual finale for both the 2008 series, as the veteran Sydney circuit's closure was imminent.

* Hyde Park, Sydney, park in New South Wales

The first " Esso Opera in the Park " in the Sydney Domain quickly became an annual event, and it is now called " Opera in the Domain ".

Sydney Le Blanc, age 15, Staten Island, N.Y., showing a Doberman Pinscher, was 2nd.

Adelaide was not as badly hit as the larger gold-rush cities of Sydney and Melbourne, and silver and lead discoveries at Broken Hill provided some relief.

The original song Advance Australia Fair was composed by Peter Dodds McCormick under the pen-name ' Amicus ' ( which means ' friend ' in Latin ), in the late 19th century, and first performed by Andrew Fairfax at a Highland Society function in Sydney on 30 November 1878.

After the war, he played piano and guitar ( his first guitar was built by friend and author Sydney Hopkins, who wrote Mister God, This Is Anna ), and in 1949 joined Chris Barber's Jazz Band where he met blues harmonica player Cyril Davies.

Admiral Arthur Phillip RN ( 11 October 173831 August 1814 ) was the first Governor of New South Wales, and founder of the settlement which became Sydney.

A garbled version of this eventually found its way into the English press when Phillip was appointed in 1786 to lead the expedition to Sydney.

Lord Sydney, as Secretary of State for the Home Office, was the minister in charge of this undertaking, and in September 1786 he appointed Phillip commodore of the fleet which was to transport the convicts and soldiers who were to be the new settlers to Botany Bay.

In October 1786, Phillip was appointed captain of and named Governor-designate of New South Wales, the proposed British colony on the east coast of Australia, by Lord Sydney, the Home Secretary.

With limited supplies, the cultivation of food was imperative, but the soils around Sydney were poor, the climate was unfamiliar, and moreover very few of the convicts had any knowledge of agriculture.

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

By 1792 the colony was well established, though Sydney remained an unplanned huddle of wooden huts and tents.

The whaling industry was established, ships were visiting Sydney to trade, and convicts whose sentences had expired were taking up farming.

The first party to successfully cross the Blue Mountains just outside Sydney was led by Gregory Blaxland in 1813, 25 years after the colony was established.

This, his maiden Test century in his fifth Test, was the turning point of the series as West Indies won the final two Tests to win the series 2 – 1. Lara went on to name his daughter Sydney after scoring 277 at SCG.

Sydney was named as a tribute to one of Lara's favourite grounds, the Sydney Cricket Ground, where Lara scored his first Test century-the highly acclaimed 277 in the 1992 – 93 season.

At the same time, however, the so-called bunyip skull was put on display in the Australian Museum ( Sydney ) for two days.

The quadrangle at the centre of Smirke's design proved to be a waste of valuable space and was filled at Panizzi's request by a circular Reading Room of cast iron, designed by Smirke's brother, Sydney Smirke.

The Round Reading Room, which was designed by the architect Sydney Smirke, opened in 1857.

In 1846 Robert Smirke was replaced as the Museum's architect by his brother Sydney Smirke, whose major addition was the Round Reading Room 1854 – 1857 ; at in diameter it was then the second widest dome in the world, the Pantheon in Rome being slightly wider.