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Riverstone (/ r ɪ v ər s t ə n /) is a suburb of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia. [3] Riverstone is located 48 kilometres (30 mi) north-west of the Sydney central business district, in the Blacktown local government area and part of the Greater Western Sydney region. Originally settled in 1803 as part of a government stock ...
Landsat 7 false-color image of the Sydney area and surrounding suburbs. The image demonstrates how the built-up areas (pink) have been constrained by the Royal National Park to the south, the Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park to the north, and the Blue Mountains National Park to the west (a boundary that generally follows a geological feature called the Lapstone Monocline, dividing the Blue ...
In a second-hand Morris Minor car, Mackay took the drawn maps and drove around checking each road and detail to confirm them. [1] After five years of meticulous research and pen-and-ink drawing, their maps were ready for publication. The first edition of Melway was released in May 1966 with a $2.50 price tag. [1]
[2] [3] It was previously a part of Riverstone. The suburb is named after the Grantham Farm Estate, which was a subdivision of the original land grant of 'Riverstone'. The land grant was given to Lieutenant-Colonel Maurice Charles O'Connell by Governor Lachlan Macquarie in 1810. The estate contained a 6-bedroom cottage and other outbuildings as ...
Riverstone was the extent of electrification until the early 1990s when electrification was extended to Richmond. The line continues north as a single track through Vineyard station , Mulgrave station (where another passing loop and island platform are provided), Windsor station (single side platform) to Clarendon station .
English: Map of the boundaries of the state electoral district (highlighted in red) in the Greater Sydney region of New South Wales, in effect from the 2023 state election in 23 March 2023, as well as other electoral districts, suburbs and localities, major roads, parks, golf courses, airports/aerodromes, and water features.
One of the distinguishing differences of a Melway-style map from other Australian street directories is in the rendering of roads. Rather than the traditional drawing of two lines with the road name printed in-between, (known as "double casing") Melway maps show a single line with the name above or below the road, in many colours reflecting the ...
NSW rank Statistical Area Level 4 and 3 Population December 2014 [3] 10-year growth rate Population density (people/km 2) 1 Greater Sydney: 4,840,628 15.7 391.4 2 Newcastle and Lake Macquarie: 368,131 9.0 423.1 3 Illawarra: 296,845 9.3 192.9 4 Hunter Valley excluding Newcastle 264,087 16.2 12.3 5 Richmond Tweed: 242,116 8.9 23.6 6 Capital ...