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Coordinates (West end); (East end); General information; Type: Street: Length: 700 m (0.4 mi) [1]: Gazetted: December 1964 [2]: Former route number: State Route 76 (1976–2004) (through Rushcutters Bay): Major junctions; West end: Darlinghurst Road Potts Point, Sydney: : William Street: East end: New South Head Road Rushcutters Bay, Sydney: Bayswater Road is a 700-metre-long (2,300 ft) [1 ...
Kings Cross railway station is an underground station at Potts Point, on the Eastern Suburbs railway line of the Sydney Trains network. [22] The area is well served by buses, with routes 200, 311, 324, and 325, and night-time routes 300 and N91, passing through Potts Point. Potts Point can be accessed on foot from Woolloomooloo. There is a ...
The 1988 Australian film Tender Hooks is largely set in Kings Cross. Australian crime drama series Underbelly: The Golden Mile was set in Kings Cross. It was a dramatic representation of Kings Cross organised crime in the 1980s and 1990s. The Australian television series Love Child was set in Kings Cross. It is a fictional drama series based on ...
In 1830 Wylde sold six of his 11 acres on the Point to Joseph Hyde Potts, accountant to the Bank of NSW, after whom Potts Point is named. [1] By the late 1820s Sydney was a crowded, disorderly and unsanitary town closely settled around the Rocks and Sydney Cove, with a European population of around 12000. Governor Darling was receiving ...
The Garden Island Tunnel System, also known as Garden Island tunnels, Garden Island Tunnel Complex and Potts Point Tunnels, is a former tunnel warfare system in Garden Island, Sydney, Australia. Used in World War II by the Royal Australian Navy in 1941, the tunnels were dug from sandstone beneath Potts Point after the Japanese attacked Pearl ...
The precinct consists of Garden Island, the tip of Potts Point, the reclaimed area linking the island and the point, and part of the eastern shoreline of Woolloomooloo Bay. The island and the point are high points above sea level of the drowned river valley that now forms Sydney Harbour, which was itself formed between 10,000 and 6,500 years ...
Victoria Street is a suburban street located in the inner eastern suburbs of Sydney, in the City of Sydney local government area of New South Wales, Australia. From south to north, Victoria Street goes through the suburbs of Darlinghurst, Potts Point and the locality of Kings Cross. It is 1.6 kilometres (0.99 mi) in length. [1]
Fleet Base East is home to more than sixty per cent of Australia’s surface fleet [7] and comprises: HMAS Kuttabul – the shore establishment that provides administrative, logistical, training and accommodation support to Fleet Base East. It is located in Potts Point, immediately adjacent to Garden Island. It also supports naval personnel ...