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Port Jackson, commonly known as Sydney Harbour, consisting of the waters of Sydney Harbour, Middle Harbour, North Harbour and the Lane Cove and Parramatta Rivers, is the ria or natural harbour of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The harbour is an inlet of the Tasman Sea (part of the South Pacific Ocean).
Sydney as viewed from Tasman Sea, overlooking the sandstone cliffs in Vaucluse Satellite photo of the Sydney area. The geography of Sydney is characterised by its coastal location on a basin bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the east, the Blue Mountains to the west, the Hawkesbury River to the north and the Woronora Plateau to the south.
The Parramatta River, along with Sydney Harbour, is the most significant waterway in Sydney. Since settlement, the river and the harbour have presented a formidable barrier between the early–European settled southern Farm Cove precinct, to development north of the waterway. Together, Parramatta River and Port Jackson literally cut Sydney in ...
Broken Bay is the first major bay north of Sydney Harbour in the state capital of Sydney. Broken Bay has its origin at the confluence of the Hawkesbury River, Pittwater, and Brisbane Water and flows openly into the Tasman Sea. The total surface area of the bay is approximately 17.1 square kilometres (6.6 sq mi).
Middle Harbour is a significant physical barrier between Sydney's North Shore and the suburbs known as the Northern Beaches area which lie north and east of Middle Harbour. There are only two bridges – the Spit Bridge and the Roseville Bridge – and because of this obstacle, historically the main transport between Manly and Sydney was by ferry.
Shark Island. Shark Island is an island located within Sydney Harbour, in New South Wales, Australia.The island is 1.5 hectares (3.7 acres) in area, [1] measuring some 250 metres by 100 metres, and lies off the Sydney suburbs of Point Piper, Rose Bay and Vaucluse, in the eastern section of the harbour between the Harbour Bridge and the harbour entrance.
The Lane Cove River, a northern tributary of the Parramatta River, is a tide-dominated, drowned valley estuary [1] west of Sydney Harbour, located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The river winds through a bushland valley and joins Parramatta River at Greenwich and Woolwich , where together they form an arm of Sydney Harbour , and serves ...
Blackwattle Bay is a bay located to the south–east of Glebe Island and east of Rozelle Bay on Sydney Harbour, in New South Wales, Australia. The bay was named in 1788 after the black wattle tree found at the bay, which was used for housing construction. When first used, the bay was a swampy inlet fed by a creek that ran from its eastern end.