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Sydney is the capital city of the state of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia.Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about 80 km (50 mi) from the Pacific Ocean in the east to the Blue Mountains in the west, and about 80 km (50 mi) from Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park and the Hawkesbury River in the north and north-west, to ...
Sydney has been a hub of a number of migrant communities, such as the Lebanese, Fijian, Korean and Nepalese. [16] Well over half of Australia's 25,000-strong Nepalese community, [17] for example, is concentrated in Sydney. [18] Seven out of every ten Lebanese migrants in Australia live in Sydney. [16]
Sydney Harbour from Milsons Point by Tom Roberts, 1897. Artists' camps flourished around Sydney Harbour in the 1880s and 1890s. Sydney's first newspaper was the Sydney Gazette established, edited and distributed by George Howe. It appeared irregularly between 1803 and 1842, but nonetheless provides a valuable source on the early development of ...
Lennie Gwyther (18 April 1922 – 18 June 1992) was an Australian figure of significance due to his 1932 solo horseback journey, as a nine-year-old boy, from Leongatha, Victoria, to Sydney, New South Wales.
Francis Stewart Boyce – Barrister, Supreme Court judge and politician (also attended Sydney Grammar School and Rugby School) [10] Arthur Chesterfield-Evans – NSW MLC (1998–2007) Russell Cooper – Premier of Queensland (Sept–Dec 1989); Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly (Nat) (1983–2001) Alfred Cox – New Zealand politician.
Clean Up Sydney Harbour event initiates Ian Kiernan's Clean Up Australia campaign. St James Ethics Centre (later The Ethics Centre) founded. Three colleges federate to form University of Western Sydney (later Western Sydney University). Bangarra Dance Theatre formed. Sydney hosts the 2000 Summer Olympics. 1990 Sydney Children's Choir founded.
Sydney has a long rich cultural history. It is located in the traditional custodian lands of the Gadigal people who originally settled in the area at least 60,000 years ago. . After the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788, a series of cultures emerged and adapted from European and American influences in needs of a modern-class ci
Sydney has a humid subtropical climate (Cfa) with warm and sometimes hot summers, and winters shifting from mild to cool. Although Sydney is predominantly humid subtropical, the hilly areas of the Forest District, such as Terrey Hills, among others, have a borderline oceanic climate (Cfb). The weather is moderated by proximity to the ocean, and ...