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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 ...
Potts Point is a small and densely populated suburb in inner-city Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Potts Point is located 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) east of the Sydney central business district and is part of the local government area of the City of Sydney .
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 ...
Kings Cross is an inner-eastern locality of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.It is located approximately 2 kilometres east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Sydney.
After British settlement, the area was first known as 'Rush Cutting Bay' because the swampy land was covered in tall rushes used by early settlers for thatching houses. In 1878, 2 hectares (6 acres) were reserved for recreation; and, after reclamation work was completed, Rushcutters Bay Park was created, bounded by New South Head Road and the bay at Sydney Harbour.
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 ...
HMAS Kuttabul is a Royal Australian Navy (RAN) base located in Potts Point in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Kuttabul provides administrative, training, logistics and accommodation support to naval personnel assigned to the various facilities that form Fleet Base East, the main operational navy base on the east coast of Australia.
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 ...