NationMaster - Encyclopedia: North Sydney, New South Wales

North Sydney is a suburb and commercial district in the LGA of North Sydney Council on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. North Sydney, Australia: Skyline at dusk. ... North Sydney, Australia: Skyline at dusk. ... Image File history File links The image (taken in 2000) shows North Sydneys high-rise commercial district from the centre facing south to Sydney CBD in the background. ... Image File history File links The image (taken in 2000) shows North Sydneys high-rise commercial district from the centre facing south to Sydney CBD in the background. ... Housing subdivision near Union, Kentucky, a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio. ... Local Government Area (abbreviated LGA) is a term used in Australia (and especially by the Australian Bureau of Statistics) to refer to areas controlled by each individual Local Government. ... North Sydney Council is a Local Government Area on the North Shore of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. ... The North Shore or Northern Suburbs refers to those suburbs of Sydney, Australia which are located on the north shore of Sydney Harbour, and between Middle Harbour and the Lane Cove River. ... The Sydney Opera House on Sydney Harbour Sydney (pronounced ) is the most populous city in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of over 4,200,000 people[1]. Sydney is the state capital of New South Wales. ... Capital Sydney Government Constitutional monarchy Governor Professor Marie Bashir Premier Morris Iemma (ALP) Federal representation - House seats 50 - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2004-05) - Product ($m) $305,437 (1st) - Product per capita $45,153/person (4th) Population (End of March 2006) - Population 6,817,100 (1st) - Density 8. ...

It is located about three kilometres north of the Sydney Central Business District, to which it is directly linked by road and rail across the Sydney Harbour Bridge. The commercial district of North Sydney includes the second largest concentration of office buildings in New South Wales, with a large representation from the advertising and information technology industries. A view of the Sydney CBD from the Harbour Bridge, the Circular Quay is in the foreground Map of the CBD The Sydney central business district (CBD) extends southwards for about 2 km from Sydney Cove, the point of first European settlement. ... The Sydney Harbour Bridge is the main crossing of Sydney Harbour carrying rail, vehicular, and pedestrian traffic between the Sydney central business district (CBD) and the North Shore. ... Capital Sydney Government Constitutional monarchy Governor Professor Marie Bashir Premier Morris Iemma (ALP) Federal representation - House seats 50 - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2004-05) - Product ($m) $305,437 (1st) - Product per capita $45,153/person (4th) Population (End of March 2006) - Population 6,817,100 (1st) - Density 8. ... Commercialism redirects here. ... Information technology (IT), as defined by the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA)is: the study, design, development, implementation, support or management of computer-based information systems, particularly software applications and computer hardware. ...

Unlike other major suburban hubs within the Sydney metropolitan area, North Sydney has limited shopping facilities, with no department stores, only two medium sized supermarkets (Aldi & IGA), and almost no Sunday trading. The main shopping complex is the Greenwood Shopping Centre which is connected to North Sydney station. Advertising, marketing businesses and associated trades such as printing have tradionally dominated the business life of the area though these have been supplanted to a certain extent by information technology businesses. Corporations whose offices are in North Sydney include Cisco Systems, Sun Microsystems and Optus (Optus is soon to relocate out of the area). ALDI is a discount supermarket chain based in Germany and one of the largest retail chains in its home market. ... Independent Grocers of Australia, or IGA, is a chain of independent supermarkets in Australia. ... The North Sydney railway station is a CityRail station that was created as part of the construction project for the Sydney Harbour Bridge and opened to traffic on 19 March 1932 at the same time that the bridge was opened. ... A Cisco ASM/2-32EM router deployed at CERN in 1987. ... Sun Microsystems, Inc. ... SingTel Optus Pty Limited is the second largest telecommunications company in Australia, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Singapore Telecommunications (ASX: SGT). ...

Local primary schools are North Sydney Demonstration School & St Mary's. Local high schools include the government selective North Sydney Boys and North Sydney Girls High Schools, the Catholic Marist College North Shore and Monte Sant' Angelo, and independent schools, Wenona School and Sydney Church of England Grammar School ("Shore"). St Aloysius' College of Milson's Point and Loreto Kirribilli are also within the confines of the North Sydney Local Government Area. Post-secondary education providers include the Australian Catholic University, Raffles KvB Institute and Billy Blue College. Prominent places of worship in the suburb include St Mary's Catholic Church and St Thomas' Anglican Church. North Sydney Boys High School is a public, selective high school for years 7-12 on Sydneys North Shore, established in 1915 according to the official street notice board. ... North Sydney Girls High School (note that the official name has no apostrophe) is a selective girls high school in Crows Nest, Sydney. ... Marist College North Shore (Marist North Shore), is a Roman Catholic, secondary day school for boys in North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. ... Monte Sant Angelo Mercy College (Often simply referred to as Monte Sant Angelo or just Monte) is a private Roman Catholic girls college located in North Sydney, Sydney, Australia. ... Wenona School, Sydney, formerly known as Woodstock, is a non-selective, non-denominational, day and boarding school for girls in the suburb of North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. ... Sydney Church of England Grammar School (also known as the Shore School and SCEGS) is an Anglican school for boys in North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. ... St Aloysius College is a Roman Catholic day school for boys aged 8 - 18 years. ... Loreto Kirribilli is a private Roman Catholic girls school in Sydney, Australia with an enrolment of approximately 1050 girls from Kindergarten to Year 12. ... Local Government Area (abbreviated LGA) is a term used in Australia (and especially by the Australian Bureau of Statistics) to refer to areas controlled by each individual Local Government. ... Post-secondary education is a form of secondary education that is taken after first attending a secondary school, such as a high school. ... Australian Catholic University The Australian Catholic University, or ACU National, is a Roman Catholic, public, multi-campus, multi-state university, based in eastern Australia, open to all staff and students regardless of their religious beliefs. ... Raffles KvB Institute (formerly KvB Institute of Technology and known as KvB for short) is a private eduation provider based in Sydney, Australia founded in 1978. ... St Thomas, North Sydney is a large Anglican Church in Sydneys North Shore. ...

The North Sydney local government area includes the suburb of North Sydney and the surrounding suburbs of Crows Nest, Wollstonecraft, Waverton, Neutral Bay, McMahons Point, Kirribilli, Cremorne (divided between North Sydney & Mosman), and Cammeray. North Sydney Council has one of the lowest council rates in Australia, partly due to the strong business presence in the area, and partly due to the rates being at a cyclical low when the State Government began restricting and regulating rent increases. The current Prime Minister of Australia chooses to live in the official Prime Minister's Sydney residence known as Kirribilli House, which is located in the suburb of Kirribilli which is adjacent to the North Sydney area, and owns his own house in Wollstonecraft, also in the area. Crows Nest is a suburb approximately five kilometres north of downtown Sydney, New South Wales, on the lower North Shore. ... Wollstonecraft is a small suburb on the North Shore region of Sydney, Australia. ... Waverton is a suburb on the North Shore region of Sydney, Australia. ... Neutral Bay Junction, part of the shopping area on Military Road Neutral Bay is a suburb on the lower North Shore of Sydney, Australia. ... McMahons Point is a harbourside suburb and peninsula of the North Sydney Council area in the Lower North Shore, Australia. ... Kirribilli is a harbourside suburb of Lower Northern Sydney (the Sydney Lower North Shore), Australia. ... Cremorne Junction, the suburbs commercial area, on Military Road Open-air cafes on the square on Military Road Cremorne is a North Shore suburb of Sydney, New South Wales situated between Mosman and Neutral Bay. ... Cammeray is a suburb located on the lower northern shore of Sydney, Australia. ... North Sydney Council is a Local Government Area on the North Shore of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. ... Judicial High Court Lower Courts Constitution State and territory governments Executive Governors and Administrators Premiers and Chief Ministers Legislative Parliaments and Assemblies State electoral systems ACT - NSW - NT - Qld. ... Kirribilli House is the Sydney residence of the Prime Minister of Australia. ... Kirribilli is a North Shore harbourside suburb of Sydney, Australia. ...

Significant places of interest

North Sydney Oval is a multi-use sporting facility primarily used for Rugby League (as home ground of the North Sydney Bears) and Rugby Union but is also utilised for Cricket, Australian Rules Football and Soccer. ...

Notable citizens

Billy Blue or William Blue, the man, arrived in Sydney as a convict in 1801. ... Blues Point is a harbourside locality of North Sydney, Australia. ... Henry Lawson, circa 1902 Henry Lawson (17 June 1867 - 2 September 1922) was an Australian writer and poet. ...

See also

The North Sydney Bears where a former club in the New South Wales Rugby League, the predecessor of the National Rugby League as the premier Australian rugby league competition. ... Rugby league football is a full-contact team sport played by two teams of thirteen on a rectangular grass field. ... North Sydney District Cricket Club is a cricket club in Sydney, Australia. ... Northern Suburbs Rugby Club are a rugby union team from Sydney, Australia. ... UTS Northern Suburbs Athletic Club is an athletics club based in Sydney, NSW. It was formed in 1994 as a merger between The Northern Suburbs Amateur Athletic Club and The University of Technology, Sydney. ...

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Coordinates: 33°50′23″ S 151°12′20″ E / -33.83965, 151.20541 Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...

Categories: Sydney geography stubs | Suburbs of Sydney North Sydney Council is a Local Government Area on the North Shore of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. ... The North Shore or Northern Suburbs refers to those suburbs of Sydney, Australia which are located on the north shore of Sydney Harbour, and between Middle Harbour and the Lane Cove River. ... The Sydney Opera House on Sydney Harbour Sydney (pronounced ) is the most populous city in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of over 4,200,000 people[1]. Sydney is the state capital of New South Wales. ... Cammeray is a suburb located on the lower north shore of Sydney, Australia. ... Cremorne Junction, the suburbs commercial area, on Military Road Open-air cafes on the square on Military Road Cremorne is a North Shore suburb of Sydney, New South Wales situated between Mosman and Neutral Bay. ... Crows Nest is a suburb approximately five kilometres north of downtown Sydney, New South Wales, on the lower North Shore. ... Kirribilli is a harbourside suburb of Lower Northern Sydney (the Sydney Lower North Shore), Australia. ... Lavender Bay is a part of Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) to the west of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and suburb of Sydney. ... Milsons Point juts into Sydney Harbour from the northern side. ... Neutral Bay Junction, part of the shopping area on Military Road Neutral Bay is a suburb on the lower North Shore of Sydney, Australia. ... St Leonards is a suburb in Sydney, Australia about 5 km northwest of downtown Sydney. ... Waverton is a suburb on the North Shore region of Sydney, Australia. ... Wollstonecraft is a small suburb on the North Shore region of Sydney, Australia. ... This is a complete listing of the suburbs and localities in the greater Sydney area in alphabetical order. ... Sydney Opera House, clearly showing the outline of its sails File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... The Sydney Opera House on Sydney Harbour Sydney (pronounced ) is the most populous city in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of over 4,200,000 people[1]. Sydney is the state capital of New South Wales. ...

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