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Sydney is the capital city of the Australian state of New South Wales and Australia's largest and oldest city (founded in 1788). With a metropolitan area population of 4.3 million and a population of approximately 146,297 people in the city proper (known as the "City of Sydney"), the Sydney metropolis is the largest financial, transport, trade and cultural centre in Australia. Image File history File links Sydney_locator-MJC.png Summary Map of Australia locating Sydney. ...
Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically); large version (pdf) The geographic (earth-mapping) coordinate system expresses every horizontal position on Earth by two of the three coordinates of a spherical coordinate system which is aligned with the spin axis of the Earth. ...
The Australian States and Territories comprise the Commonwealth of Australia under a federal system of government. ...
Motto: Orta Recens Quam Pura Nites (Newly Risen, How Brightly You Shine) Nickname: First State, Premier State Other Australian states and territories Capital Sydney Government Governor Premier Const. ...
This article explains the meaning of area as a physical quantity. ...
Time zones are areas of the Earth that have adopted the same standard time, usually referred to as the local time. ...
Daylight saving time (also called DST) is the U.S. term for a system intended to save daylight (the British observe summer time, and likewise the Europeans). ...
UTC+10 time zone Australia (AEST—Australian Eastern Standard Time) Australian Capital Territory**, New South Wales** (except Broken Hill, which observes South Australia time), Queensland, Tasmania** (which observes DST starting on the first weekend of October instead of the last), Victoria** Guam (Chamorro Standard Time via US Law) Federated States...
Coordinated Universal Time or UTC, also sometimes referred to as Zulu time or Z, is an atomic realization of Universal Time (UT) or Greenwich Mean Time, the astronomical basis for civil time. ...
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Coordinated Universal Time or UTC, also sometimes referred to as Zulu time or Z, is an atomic realization of Universal Time (UT) or Greenwich Mean Time, the astronomical basis for civil time. ...
2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, and also: The International Year of Freshwater The European Disability Year Events January events January 1 Luíz Inácio Lula Da Silva becomes the 37th President of Brazil. ...
Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. ...
This is a list of cities in Australia, arranged by state: // Australian Capital Territory Canberra (National Captial) New South Wales See also: List of Sydney suburbs, Local Government Areas of New South Wales Northern Territory See also: Local Government Areas of the Northern Territory Darwin (Capital) Alice Springs Palmerston Queensland...
Motto: Orta Recens Quam Pura Nites (Newly Risen, How Brightly You Shine) Nickname: First State, Premier State Other Australian states and territories Capital Sydney Government Governor Premier Const. ...
1788 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...
This article is about the local government area. ...
Sydney is a significant global and domestic tourist destination and is regularly declared to be one of the most beautiful and liveable cities in the world, admired for its harbour, beautiful coastline, warm and pleasant climate and cosmopolitan culture. Sydney significantly raised its global profile in recent years as the host city of the 2000 Olympics. It is also the host of the World Youth Day 2008. The city's name is pronounced /ˈsɪd.niː/. A resident of Sydney is popularly known as a "Sydneysider". A Tourist destination is a city, town or other area the economy of which is dependent to a significant extent on the revenues accruing from Tourism. ...
The Games of the XXVII Olympiad or the Millennium Olympics were held in 2000 in Sydney, Australia. ...
The 21st World Youth Day 2008 will take place in Homebush, Sydney, Australia. ...
This is a concise version of the International Phonetic Alphabet for English sounds. ...
Geography
 Image of Sydney taken by NASA
 Map of the centre of Sydney Sydney is located in a coastal basin between the Pacific Ocean to the east and the Blue Mountains to the west. The city features the largest natural harbour in the world, Port Jackson, and more than 70 harbour and ocean beaches, including the famous Bondi Beach. Sydney's urban area of 1,687 km² is similar to that of Greater London, although it has less than half of that city's population. The metropolitan area (Sydney Statistical Division) is 12,145 km², but much of this is national park and other unsettled land. The geographical coordinates of Sydney are 34 degrees south and 151 degrees east. This simulated true-color Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) image shows the Sydney metropolitan area on October 12, 2001, and covers an area of 42 by 33 kilometers. ...
This simulated true-color Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) image shows the Sydney metropolitan area on October 12, 2001, and covers an area of 42 by 33 kilometers. ...
Download high resolution version (1440x1080, 224 KB)Sydney Template:Freeuse File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
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Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge located on Port Jackson Port Jackson, also known as Sydney Harbour, is the natural harbour of Sydney, Australia. ...
The Sydney Harbour Bridge is one of the major landmarks of Sydney, Australia, connecting the Sydney central business district (CBD) with the North Shore commercial and residential areas, both of which are located on Sydney Harbour. ...
Sydney Opera House at sunset, with the suns rays shadowed by the Harbour Bridge Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge Harbour Bridge and Sydney Opera House panorama The Sydney Opera House in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia is one of the most distinctive and famous 20th century buildings, and...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1481x2420, 212 KB) Summary Map of Sydney Central business district, showing some prominant locations, made by User:Astrokey44. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1481x2420, 212 KB) Summary Map of Sydney Central business district, showing some prominant locations, made by User:Astrokey44. ...
Blue Mountains of New South Wales The Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia, roughly 100 kilometres west of Sydney, are a range of sandstone mountains that reach to 1111 metres above sea level at their highest, One Tree Hill. ...
Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge located on Port Jackson Port Jackson, also known as Sydney Harbour, is the natural harbour of Sydney, Australia. ...
Bondi Beach Bondi Beach (with a long i) is a hugely popular beach and suburb of Sydney, Australia. ...
To help compare sizes of different geographic regions, we list here areas between 1 km² (100 hectares) and 10 km² (1000 hectares). ...
Greater London is the top level administrative subdivision covering London, England. ...
Sydney occupies two geographical regions: the Cumberland Plain, a relatively flat or rolling region lying to the south and west of the harbour, and the Hornsby Plateau, a plateau north of the harbour, up to 200 m in elevation, dissected by forested valleys. The oldest parts of the city are located in the flat areas; the Hornsby Plateau, known as the North Shore, was slower to develop because of its hilly topography, and was mostly a quiet backwater until the Sydney Harbour Bridge was opened in 1932, linking it to the rest of the city. Much of the North Shore is upper-middle class suburban in character, with high-rise business districts at Chatswood and North Sydney. The North Shore 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 Harbour Bridge is one of the major landmarks of Sydney, Australia, connecting the Sydney central business district (CBD) with the North Shore commercial and residential areas, both of which are located on Sydney Harbour. ...
Chatswood pedestrian mall, facing west towards Chatswood station Chatswood is a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia and the seat of the City of Willoughby local government area. ...
North Sydney is a suburb and commercial district in the Local Government Area of North Sydney Council on the North Shore of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. ...
Sydney's central business district (CBD) extends southwards for about 2 km from Sydney Cove, the point of the first European settlement. Densely concentrated skyscrapers and other buildings including beautiful sandstone buildings such as the Sydney Town Hall and Queen Victoria Building are interspersed by several parks such as Wynyard and Hyde Parks. The CBD is bounded on the east side by a chain of parkland that extends from Hyde Park through the Domain and Royal Botanic Gardens to Farm Cove on the harbour. The west side is bounded by Darling Harbour, a popular tourist precinct. Central Station marks the southern end of the CBD. George St is the Sydney CBD's main north-south thoroughfare. In the southern CBD, the streets run on a slightly angled grid pattern; in the older northern CBD, the routes are less logical, reflecting the ad-hoc development of bullock tracks in the early days of the city. (See the Sydney central business district article for more detail.) Sydney's streets tend to be narrower than those of other major Australian cities, reflecting this ad hoc development. The Sydney central business district (CBD) is, commercially, the most important in Australia. ...
Sydney Cove is a small bay on the southern shore of Port Jackson (commonly but incorrectly called Sydney Harbour), on the coast of the state of New South Wales, Australia. ...
Taipei 101, the worlds tallest skyscraper by roof height on high rise. ...
Sydney Town Hall Right in the heart of Sydney the Sydney Town Hall is a beautiful landmark sandstone building. ...
The QVB, or Queen Victoria Building, is a shopping centre located in the heart of the Sydney, Australia, CBD. The elaborate Romanesque architecture echoes the Victorian age perfectly, and presents a glittering contrast to the more severe modern buildings around it. ...
Wynyard Park is a small park in the central business district of Sydney, Australia. ...
Hyde Park is a large park in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, named after the original Hyde Park, London. ...
The Domain is a large open space in Sydney, Australia, immediately east of the central business district. ...
The Royal Botanic Gardens is a 30 hectare site located beside Sydneys Central Business District. ...
Farm Cove is a tidal inlet and shallow bay in Sydney Harbour, separated from Sydney Cove by Bennelong Point (site of the Sydney Opera House). ...
Darling Harbour is a large recreational pedestrian precinct situated on the western edge of central Sydney, Australia. ...
Central (also known as Sydney Terminal) is the largest railway station in Sydney, Australia. ...
The Sydney central business district (CBD) is, commercially, the most important in Australia. ...
Although the CBD dominated the city's business and cultural life in the early days, other business/cultural districts have developed in a radial pattern since World War II. As a result, the proportion of white-collar jobs located in the CBD declined from more than 60% at the end of World War II to less than 30% in 2004. The five most significant outer business districts are Parramatta in the central-west, Blacktown in the west, Liverpool in the southwest, Chatswood to the north, and Hurstville in the south. World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrination, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons such as the atom bomb. ...
2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Parramatta is a city, suburb and Local Government Area in Sydney, Australia, 25 kilometres west of the central business district (CBD) in Western Sydney. ...
Blacktown is a suburb in the City of Blacktown, in Western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. ...
Liverpool is a suburb in the City of Liverpool, New South Wales in the south western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. ...
Chatswood pedestrian mall, facing west towards Chatswood station Chatswood is a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia and the seat of the City of Willoughby local government area. ...
Hurstville is a suburb in the City of Hurstville, in southern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. ...
Although the city does not suffer from cyclones or significant earthquakes, the El Niño Southern Oscillation plays an important role in determining Sydney's weather patterns: drought and bushfire on the one hand, and storms and flooding on the other, associated with the opposite phases of the oscillation. Many areas of the city bordering bushland have experienced bushfires, notably in 1994 and 2002. The city is subject to infrequent severe hail storms and wind storms. A tropical cyclone in the northern hemisphere. ...
Global earthquake epicenters, 1963–1998 An earthquake is a sudden and sometimes catastrophic movement of a part of the Earths surface. ...
Chart of ocean surface temperature anomaly [°C] during the last strong El Niño in December 1997 El Niño and La Niña (also written in English as El Nino and La Nina) are major temperature fluctuations in surface waters of the tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean. ...
Fire in San Bernardino, California Mountains (image taken from the International Space Station) A wildfire, also known as a forest fire, vegetation fire, grass fire, or bushfire (in Australasia), is an uncontrolled fire in wildland often caused by lightning; other common causes are human carelessness and arson. ...
1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ...
2002 (MMII) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
In recent years, the city has faced water shortages. The levels in its main water storages, chief of which Warragamba Dam have fallen to such an extent that the state government has imposed a range of restrictions intended to reduce water consumption and is currently considering the introduction of a desalinated water plant. Warragamba Dam Spillway Warragamba Dam is the major water supply for Sydney, Australia, situated approximately 65 km to the west of Sydney in the Burragorang Valley. ...
History - Main article: History of Sydney
 The Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge illuminated under New Year Fireworks 2004/2005 The area surrounding Sydney Harbour (called Warrane by the aborigines) has been inhabited by Aboriginal tribes, notably the Eora and Cadigal, for at least 40,000 years. Although urbanisation has destroyed most evidence of these settlements (such as shell middens), there are still rock carvings in several locations. European interest arose with the sighting of Botany Bay (now a southern suburb of Sydney) in 1770 by Lieutenant James Cook. This is a history of the city of Sydney. ...
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Australian Aborigines are the main indigenous people of Australia. ...
The Eora (sometimes spelt Iora or Iyora) people were the aboriginal occupants of the Sydney region in 1788 when the first European colonists arrived. ...
Urbanization is the expansion of a city or metropolitan area, namely the proportion of total population or area in urban localities or areas (cities and towns), or the increase of this proportion over time. ...
A satellite composite image of Europe Europe is the worlds second-smallest continent in terms of area, with an area of 10,600,000 km² (4,140,625 square miles), making it larger than Australia only. ...
Bicentennial Monument at Botany Bay Botany Bay is a bay in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, a few kilometres south of the central business district. ...
1770 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
James Cook, portrait by Nathaniel Dance, c. ...
Under instruction from the British government, a convict settlement was founded by Arthur Phillip in 1788. Phillip founded the colony at Sydney Cove on Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour). He named it after the British Home Secretary, Thomas Townshend, Lord Sydney (Viscount Sydney from 1789), in recognition of Sydney's role in issuing the charter authorising Phillip to establish a colony. Prisoners were quickly set to work to build the settlement and by 1822 the town had banks, markets, well-established thoroughfares and an organised constabulary; by 1847, convicts accounted for only 3.2% of the population. Admiral Arthur Phillip (1786 portrait by Francis Wheatley, National Portrait Gallery, London) Admiral Arthur Phillip (11 October 1738 – 31 August 1814) was a British naval officer, governor of the first European settlement in Australia and founder of the city of Sydney. ...
1788 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...
Sydney Cove is a small bay on the southern shore of Port Jackson (commonly but incorrectly called Sydney Harbour), on the coast of the state of New South Wales, Australia. ...
Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge located on Port Jackson Port Jackson, also known as Sydney Harbour, is the natural harbour of Sydney, Australia. ...
The Home Secretary (official full title Secretary of State for the Home Department) is the chief United Kingdom government minister responsible for law and order in England and Wales; his or her remit includes policing, the criminal justice system, the prison service, internal security, and matters of citizenship and immigration. ...
Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney (24 February 1732 - 30 June 1800), the British politician after whom the city of Sydney, Australia, is named, was born at Frognal House, near Chislehurst in Kent. ...
Viscount Sydney is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain created in 1789, to Thomas Townshend, 1st Baron Sydney (the Barony having been created in 1783). ...
1789 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...
1822 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...
1847 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...
After a slow start, the town grew rapidly, with ships arriving from Ireland and England with immigrants looking to start a new life in a new country. The first of several gold rushes was in 1851, since which time the port of Sydney has seen many waves of people from around the world. With industrialisation Sydney expanded rapidly, and by the early 20th century it had a population well in excess of one million. Throughout the 20th century Sydney continued to expand with various new waves of European and (later) Asian immigration, resulting in its highly cosmopolitan atmosphere of the present day. Indeed, Sydney has the second highest immigrant population of any major world city, with 45% of the population being either migrants or children of migrants. Gold rush ad A gold rush is a period of feverish migration of workers into the area of a dramatic discovery of commercial quantities of gold. ...
Industrialisation (or industrialization) or an industrial revolution (in general, with lowercase letters) is a process of social and economic change whereby a human society is transformed from a pre-industrial to an industrial state . ...
(19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the...
(19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the...
A satellite composite image of Europe Europe is the worlds second-smallest continent in terms of area, with an area of 10,600,000 km² (4,140,625 square miles), making it larger than Australia only. ...
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Historical population
 Sydney's icons: the Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge, viewed from Mrs Macquaries Point in the Royal Botanic Gardens The majority of Sydneysiders are of British and Irish background. More recent arrivals have included Italians, Greeks, Lebanese, South Africans, Indians, Sudanese, Turks, Macedonians, Croatians, Serbs, Chinese and Vietnamese. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...
Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...
1800 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...
1820 was a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...
1851 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...
1871 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...
1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ...
2003 (MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Centuries: 20th century - 21st century - 22nd century Decades: 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s 2040s - 2050s - 2060s 2070s 2080s 2090s 2100s Years: 2045 2046 2047 2048 2049 - 2050 - 2051 2052 2053 2054 2055 // Scheduled events for 2050 January 24: Centennial of the birth of Benjamin Urrutia. ...
Timeline of events - 1788: First European settlement established
- 1852: Sydney incorporated as a city
- 1855: New South Wales's first railway line linking Sydney with Parramatta
- 1870: Intercolonial Exhibition (1870)
- 1879: Sydney International Exhibition (1879)
- 1883: Parramatta - Intercolonial Juvenile Industrial Exhibition (1883)
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1852 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...
Melbourne, Australia by night For alternate meanings see city (disambiguation) A city is an urban area, differentiated from a town, village, or hamlet by size, population density, importance, or legal status. ...
1855 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
Parramatta is a city, suburb and Local Government Area in Sydney, Australia, 25 kilometres west of the central business district (CBD) in Western Sydney. ...
1870 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...
1879 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...
1883 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
Parramatta is a city, suburb and Local Government Area in Sydney, Australia, 25 kilometres west of the central business district (CBD) in Western Sydney. ...
1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...
January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. ...
1903 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...
City of Melbourne Local Government Area State Victoria Lord Mayor John So (since 2001) Area 36 km² Population (2001) 57,960 Density 1,601/km² (1999) Greater Melbourne Subdivisions Local Government Areas Area 7,694 km² (1999) Population 2001 census (2nd in Australia) 3,555,321 Density 462. ...
1932 (MCMXXXII) is a leap year starting on a Friday. ...
The Sydney Harbour Bridge is one of the major landmarks of Sydney, Australia, connecting the Sydney central business district (CBD) with the North Shore commercial and residential areas, both of which are located on Sydney Harbour. ...
This article is about the year. ...
In late May and early June, 1942, a group of five Imperial Japanese Navy submarines made a series of attacks on Sydney, Australia and the nearby port of Newcastle. ...
1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ...
Sydney Opera House at sunset, with the suns rays shadowed by the Harbour Bridge Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge Harbour Bridge and Sydney Opera House panorama The Sydney Opera House in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia is one of the most distinctive and famous 20th century buildings, and...
This article is about the year 2000. ...
The Games of the XXVII Olympiad or the Millennium Olympics were held in 2000 in Sydney, Australia. ...
Government and politics There is no overall governing body for the Sydney metropolitan area. There is a directly elected Lord Mayor of Sydney and an elected council, but these are responsible only for the City of Sydney, which takes in the central business area and some adjoining inner suburbs. The Lord Mayor, however, is sometimes treated as a representative of the whole city. This is a list of the Mayors and Lord Mayors of the City of Sydney Local Government Area, Sydney, Australia. ...
This article is about the local government area. ...
The rest of the metropolitan area is divided into municipalities (see list of regions below). As is common in major metropolitan areas of most Australian states, these municipalities all have elected councils and are responsible for a range of functions delegated to them by the New South Wales State Government. The form of the Government of New South Wales is prescribed in its Constitution, which dates from 1856, although it has been amended many times since then. ...
Most citywide government activities are controlled by the state government. These include public transport, main roads, traffic control, policing, education above preschool level, and planning of major infrastructure projects.
Because a large fraction of New South Wales' population lives in Sydney, state governments have traditionally been reluctant to allow the development of citywide governmental bodies, which would tend to rival the state government.
For this reason, Sydney has always been a focus for the politics of both State and Federal Parliaments. For example, the electoral boundary of the City of Sydney local council area (mayoralty) have been significantly altered by state governments on at least four occasions since 1945, with advantageous effect to the governing party in the New South Wales Parliament at the time. // Australia is a constitutional monarchy, a federation and a parliamentary democracy. ...
1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Motto: Orta Recens Quam Pura Nites (Newly Risen, How Brightly You Shine) Nickname: First State, Premier State Other Australian states and territories Capital Sydney Government Governor Premier Const. ...
As of 2005, the councils of the City of Sydney and the City of South Sydney are merged. 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
This article is about the local government area. ...
The City of Sydney comprises the central business district and surrounding Inner West suburbs of the greater metropolitan area of Sydney, Australia. ...
Landmarks
 Sydney leads the world in one of the first major New Year's Eve celebrations each year The city's most famous landmarks are Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Sydney Opera House, both of which are located on Sydney Harbour. Sydney's principal river is the Parramatta River, which enters Sydney Harbour from the west. While the Harbour is famous for its racing yachts, the Boxing Day start of the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race and 18ft skiffs, the river is used for dinghy sailing and rowing as well as recreational boating, racing small yachts, recreational fishing, and occasional Dragon Boat racing. Another famous landmark is the Sydney Tower (also known as Centrepoint Tower or the AMP Tower) which is the third tallest building in the Southern Hemisphere after Auckland's Sky Tower and the Gold Coast's Q1 Tower. Darling Harbour is also a popular tourist attraction. The Sydney Cricket Ground, which retains several beautiful 1920s-era grandstands, hosts several international cricket matches and the Sydney Swans Australian rules football team. The old adjacent showgrounds, for many years home to the Sydney Royal Easter Show, have been redeveloped as 20th Century Fox's large Sydney studios. Sydney Olympic Park, after holding a large proportion of the major events in the 2000 Olympic Games, now regularly hosts sporting and cultural events, especially at Telstra Stadium. Sydney is also known for the annual Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. Digital photograph of Sydney New Years Eve Fireworks 2005 from my trip. ...
Digital photograph of Sydney New Years Eve Fireworks 2005 from my trip. ...
The Sydney Harbour Bridge is one of the major landmarks of Sydney, Australia, connecting the Sydney central business district (CBD) with the North Shore commercial and residential areas, both of which are located on Sydney Harbour. ...
Sydney Opera House at sunset, with the suns rays shadowed by the Harbour Bridge Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge Harbour Bridge and Sydney Opera House panorama The Sydney Opera House in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia is one of the most distinctive and famous 20th century buildings, and...
The Parramatta River is the main tributary of Sydney Harbour, along with the smaller Lane Cove and Duck Rivers. ...
The Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race is hosted by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, starting in Sydney on Boxing Day (the day after Christmas Day) and finishes in Hobart. ...
2 GP14s, a Topper and a Graduate Dinghy sailing is the activity of sailing small boats by using (1) the sails and (2) underwater foils (centreboard and rudder). ...
Fishing is the activity of hunting for fish. ...
Two dragon boat crews during a race. ...
Sydney Tower, taken 14 April 2005 Sydney Tower (formerly known as the AMP Tower, AMP Centrepoint Tower, Centrepoint Tower or just Centrepoint) is Sydneys tallest free-standing structure, and the second tallest in Australia (with the Q1 building on the Gold Coast being the tallest). ...
The Southern Hemisphere of Earth highlighted in yellow. ...
Darling Harbour is a large recreational pedestrian precinct situated on the western edge of central Sydney, Australia. ...
For more coverage of cricket, go to the Cricket portal. ...
Sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or primarily in North America and in Australia as the Roaring Twenties . In Europe it is sometimes refered to as the Golden Twenties. ...
The Sydney Swans are an Australian Football League (AFL) club based in Sydney. ...
Australian football at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. ...
The Sydney Royal Easter Show (RES) in Sydney, Australia, (also known as the Royal Easter Show or simply the Sydney Royal) is an annual show held over two weeks around Easter. ...
Fox Plaza, the company headquarters. ...
Homebush Bay is a suburb of Sydney, Australia, adjacent to the newly developed suburb of Newington. ...
This page is for Telstra Stadium, Sydney. ...
The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras is a parade and pride festival for the gay and lesbian community, held annually in Sydney, Australia. ...
Sydney is home to the Australian Stock Exchange and the Reserve Bank of Australia. It also has 6 universities: the University of Sydney (USyd), the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Macquarie University (MaqU), the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), the University of Western Sydney (UWS), and two of the campuses of the Australian Catholic University (ACU). The Australian Stock Exchange, or ASX, is the organisation responsible for the operation of Australias primary stock exchange. ...
Reserve Bank of Australia in Martin Place, Sydney The Reserve Bank of Australia came into being on the 14th January 1960 to operate as Australias central bank and banknote issuing authority. ...
A university is an institution of higher education and of research, which grants academic degrees. ...
The University of Sydney The University of Sydney, established in 1850, is the oldest university in Australia, and it is located in Sydney, the capital city of the state of New South Wales. ...
University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales is a university in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. ...
Macquarie University Macquarie University is a university located in North Ryde, a north-western suburb of Sydney, Australia. ...
University of Technology Sydney The UTS tower on Broadway The University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), is a university in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. ...
The University of Western Sydney is a public, multi-campus, higher educational institute located in the Greater Western Sydney region of New South Wales, Australia. ...
Australian Catholic University The Australian Catholic University, or ACU National, is a Roman Catholic, public university based in Australia, that does not discriminate based on religious beliefs. ...
Major Tourist attractions Sydney is noted for its tourist attractions, including: Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia. ...
Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia. ...
A tourist boat travels the River Seine in Paris, France Tourism can be defined as the act of travel for the purpose of recreation, and the provision of services for this act. ...
 A view of Sydney Harbour, with the Sydney Opera House on the left, the central business district in the image centre and Sydney Harbour Bridge on the right Bondi Beach Bondi Beach (with a long i) is a hugely popular beach and suburb of Sydney, Australia. ...
Sydneys Chinatown is located within the southern central business district of the City of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia, in the Haymarket area between Central Station and Darling Harbour. ...
Darling Harbour is a large recreational pedestrian precinct situated on the western edge of central Sydney, Australia. ...
Fox Studios Australia is a major movie studio located in Sydney, Australia. ...
The Hyde Park Barracks, built between 1818 and 1819, is a popular landmark in the historic precinct of Macquarie Street and Queens Square in Sydney. ...
King Street Wharf is a former maritime industrial area on the eastern shore of Darling Harbour, an inlet of Sydney Harbour, that has been redeveloped into a residential, commercial and entertainment precinct as part of the extensive redevelopment in the general area. ...
Manly Beach Manly is a suburb in Local Government Area of Manly Council on Northern Beaches of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. ...
The Powerhouse Museum is Sydneys museum of science and technology. ...
A museum is typically a non-profit, permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits, for purposes of study, education enjoyment, the tangible and intangible evidence of people and their environment. ...
// What is science? There are various understandings of the word science. According to empiricism, scientific theories are objective, empirically testable, and predictive — they predict empirical results that can be checked and possibly contradicted. ...
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Darling Harbour is a large recreational pedestrian precinct situated on the western edge of central Sydney, Australia. ...
Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge located on Port Jackson Port Jackson, also known as Sydney Harbour, is the natural harbour of Sydney, Australia. ...
The Sydney Harbour Bridge is one of the major landmarks of Sydney, Australia, connecting the Sydney central business district (CBD) with the North Shore commercial and residential areas, both of which are located on Sydney Harbour. ...
The Sydney Mint, in Sydney, Australia, is the oldest public building in Australia. ...
Sydney Opera House at sunset, with the suns rays shadowed by the Harbour Bridge Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge Harbour Bridge and Sydney Opera House panorama The Sydney Opera House in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia is one of the most distinctive and famous 20th century buildings, and...
Sydney Tower, taken 14 April 2005 Sydney Tower (formerly known as the AMP Tower, AMP Centrepoint Tower, Centrepoint Tower or just Centrepoint) is Sydneys tallest free-standing structure, and the second tallest in Australia (with the Q1 building on the Gold Coast being the tallest). ...
Taronga Zoo Entrance. ...
Mosman is a suburb in the Municipality of Mosman on the lower North Shore of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. ...
George Street, the main street of The Rocks The Rocks is a tourist precinct and historic area near the central business district (CBD) of Sydney, Australia. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (4426x1509, 1132 KB)Sydney Harbour Bridge as seen from the North Shore suburb of Kirribilli. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (4426x1509, 1132 KB)Sydney Harbour Bridge as seen from the North Shore suburb of Kirribilli. ...
Culture - Main article: Culture of Sydney
 Government House in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney Sydney boasts a full roster of musical, theatrical and artistic activity through the year, from the formal - including the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the Sydney Theatre Company, the Sydney Dance Company, and the Archibald Prize - to festivals, including the Sydney Festival, a celebration of free performances throughout January. Many internationally known Australian rock bands have had their conception in Sydney, which include most notably The Easybeats, AC/DC, Midnight Oil and INXS. The culture of Sydney is diverse and multicultural. ...
Government House Sydney (my own photo) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Government House Sydney (my own photo) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Sydney Symphony Orchestra, now known as the Sydney Symphony, is a symphony orchestra based in Sydney, Australia. ...
The Sydney Theatre Company (STC) is one of Australias most well-known and notable theatre companies operating from the Wharf Theatre near The Rocks area of Sydney. ...
The Sydney Dance Company is one of Australias most successful and well-known dance companies. ...
The Archibald Prize is regarded as the most important portraiture prize, and is the most prominent of all arts prizes, in Australia. ...
Rock group (or later rock band) is a generic name to describe a group of musicians specializing in a particular form of electronically amplified music. ...
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AC/DC is an Australian hard rock band. ...
Midnight Oil was an Australian rock band known for their driving hard rock sound, superb live performances and their overt left-wing political activism. ...
The Australian band INXS, as they were with the late Michael Hutchence The Australian band INXS, with new lead singer J.D. Fortune INXS (pronounced to sound like In Excess) is an Australian/Canadian rock group. ...
Sydney has also been the inspiration for a very large number of Australian indie rock and mainstream pop songs from The Executives' classic 1968 "Summer Hill Road", to Paul Kelly's many songs about Sydney including "From St.Kilda to Kings Cross" and "Sydney From A 727", to John Kennedy's Love Gone Wrong and songs like "King Street" and "Miracle in Marrickville" to The Mexican Spitfires "Sydney Town" and "Town Hall Steps" among many others. In fact in 2000 to coincide with the Sydney Olympic Games Sony Music released a compilation of 30 songs about Sydney called "Somewhere In Sydney" which featured the above mentioned artists as well as The Whitlams, Skyhooks, Cold Chisel, Roaring Jack and many others. See Songs about Sydney for a listing by suburb of songs about Sydney and environs. Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music often used to refer to bands that are on small independent record labels or that arent on labels at all. ...
Paul Kelly is a musician, singer and songwriter, born in South Australia in 1955, but long based in - and associated with - Melbourne, Australia. ...
John Kennedys Love Gone Wrong John Kennedy is a Sydney-based singer songwriter with a penchant for strong melodies and heart on your sleeve pop songs often with a country and western affection. ...
The Mexican Spitfires The Mexican Spitfires were a Sydney-based Australian indie rock/indie pop band formed in suburban Strathfield in the mid 1980s. ...
The Games of the XXVII Olympiad were held in 2000 in Sydney, Australia. ...
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From left: Warwick Hornby, Jak Housden, Tim Freedman, and Terepai Richmond The Whitlams is an Australian band that formed in late 1992 in Newtown, Sydney, Australia. ...
Skyhooks was an Australian rock band of the 1970s, sometimes classified as a glam rock band. ...
Cold Chisel, produced the canonical example of Australian pub rock, with a string of hits throughout the 1970s and 1980s, and they are acknowledged as one of the most popular and successful Australian groups of the period, although this success and acclaim was almost completely restricted to Australia. ...
This is a list of songs which mention or are about Sydney the capital city of New South Wales, Australia, the suburbs of Sydney and nearby locations such as Katoomba, Newcastle and Wollongong. ...
Sydney also has been home to many visual artists, from the lush pastoralism of Lloyd Rees's depictions of Sydney Harbour to Jeffrey Smart's portraits of bleak urban alienation. Sydney has four large and many smaller museums. The biggest are the Australian Museum (natural history and anthropology), Powerhouse Museum (science, technology and design), Art Gallery of New South Wales and the Museum of Contemporary Art. A south coast road (1951) by Lloyd Rees, painted at Werri beach Lloyd Rees (1895-1988) Australian landscape painter. ...
The flea market, Rome (1966) Jeffrey Smart (1921 - ) is an expatriate Australian painter, who is known for his modernist depictions of urban landscapes. ...
The Australian Museum is the oldest museum in Australia, centering on natural history and anthropology, with collections centering on vertebrate and invertebrate zoology, as well as minerology, palaeontology, and anthropology. ...
The Powerhouse Museum is Sydneys museum of science and technology. ...
The Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) is an art gallery, open to the public, and located in The Domain in Sydney, Australia. ...
The Museum of Contemporary Art (abbreviated MCA) in Sydney, Australia is the only Australian museum solely dedicated to exhibiting, interpreting and collecting contemporary art alone, both from across Australia and around the world. ...
Sydney is also home to several large ethnic communities throughout the greater metropolitan area, and a significant gay community who host the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras along Oxford Street. To encourage sharing of cultural, trade and tourist links, the City of Sydney Council maintains sister city relations with the cities San Francisco, Nagoya, Wellington, Portsmouth, Guangzhou, and Florence. The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras is a parade and pride festival for the gay and lesbian community, held annually in Sydney, Australia. ...
This article is about partnerships between towns distant from each other; see Twin cities for the different concept of physically neighbouring cities. ...
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Nagoya Castle in June of 2004. ...
Wellington (Te Whanganui-a-Tara or Poneke) is the capital city of New Zealand, the countrys second-largest urban area and the most populous national capital city in Oceania. ...
This article is about the English city of Portsmouth. ...
Location within China Guangzhou is the capital of Guangdong Province in southern China. ...
Founded 59 BC as Florentia Region Tuscany Mayor Leonardo Domenici (Democratici di Sinistra) Area - City Proper 102 km² Population - City (2004) - Metropolitan - Density (city proper) 356,000 almost 500,000 3,453/km² Time zone CET, UTC+1 Latitude Longitude 43°47 N 11°15 E www. ...
Media Sydney has two daily newspapers. The Sydney Morning Herald is a centrist-to-left-leaning broadsheet, and is generally regarded as a "serious" paper, with extensive coverage of domestic and international news, culture and business. It is also the oldest newspaper in Australia, having been published regularly since 1831. The Herald's competitor, The Daily Telegraph, is a Murdoch-owned tabloid. It leans to the right and is generally sensationalist in its coverage. Both papers have tabloid counterparts published on Sunday, The Sun-Herald and the Sunday Telegraph respectively. Recently, an afternoon/evening tabloid owned by Murdoch known as the MX was added to Sydney's list of free newspapers, released at 15:00 and distributed every weekday at CBD railway stations and newsagents. The Sydney Morning Herald is a prestigious and important newspaper in Australia, published daily in Sydney, the most populous city in Australia. ...
Newspaper sizes in August 2005. ...
1831 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...
The Daily Telegraph is a tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, by Rupert Murdochs News Corporation. ...
Rupert Murdoch Keith Rupert Murdoch (born March 11, 1931) is an Australian-born American media proprietor who is the majority shareholder and managing director of News Corporation, one of the worlds largest and most influential media corporations. ...
Newspaper sizes in August 2005. ...
Rupert Murdoch Keith Rupert Murdoch (born March 11, 1931) is an Australian-born American media proprietor who is the majority shareholder and managing director of News Corporation, one of the worlds largest and most influential media corporations. ...
MX is a Melbourne-based free newspaper, published on weekday afternoons. ...
The three commercial television networks (Seven, Nine & Ten), as well as the government networks (ABC & SBS) each have a presence in Sydney. The ABC has a large headquarters and production facility in Ultimo. SBS have their studios at Artarmon. Foxtel and Optus both supply pay-TV over their cable services to most parts of the metropolitan area. Limited digital TV transmissions serve Sydney, including a program guide (Channel 4), ABC news, sport, and weather items (Channel 41), ChannelNSW: Government and Public Information (Channel 45), Australian Christian Channel (Channel 46), MacquarieBank TV (Channel 47), SportsTAB (Channel 48), Expo Home Shopping (Channel 49), and Federal parliamentary broadcasts (audio only). The Seven Network is Australias largest television network, avaliable in major markets across Australia. ...
The Nine Network is an Australian television network, available in major markets across Australia. ...
Ten Network logo Network TEN so called because it broadcasts on Channel TEN in most cities, is Australias third but possibly most profitable television network. ...
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is Australias national public broadcaster. ...
The Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) is one of two government funded Australian public broadcasting radio and television networks, the other being the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). ...
Ultimo is a suburb in central Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. ...
Hampden Road, Artarmon, New South Wales facing north outside Artarmon railway station, Sydney. ...
Foxtel is a cable television and satellite television company in Australia, formed through a joint venture between Telstra and News Corporation. ...
Optus Television is the cable television division of Australian telecommunications company Optus. ...
Digital television (DTV) uses digital modulation and compression to broadcast video, audio and data signals to television sets. ...
Many AM and FM government, commercial and community radio services broadcast in the Sydney area. The local ABC radio station is 702 ABC Sydney (formerly 2BL). The talkback radio genre is dominated by the perennial rivals 2GB and 2UE. Vega (radio network) is a new talk radio station on the FM band. Popular music stations include Triple M, 2Day FM and Nova 96.9. Triple J, 2SER and FBi Radio provide a more independent, local and alternative sound. There are also a number of community stations broadcasting to a particular language group or local area. Amplitude modulation (AM) is a form of modulation in which the amplitude of a carrier wave is varied in direct proportion to that of a modulating signal. ...
Frequency modulation (FM) is a form of modulation which represents information as variations in the instantaneous frequency of a carrier wave. ...
ABC Local Radio is a network of publicly-owned radio stations in Australia, operated by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. ...
702 ABC Sydney is a ABC radio station in Sydney, Australia. ...
Talk radio is radio format which features discussion of topical issues. ...
2GB is a commercial radio station in Sydney, Australia broadcasting on 873 kHz, AM. Some of the personalites on 2GB are: Alan Jones, Ray Hadley, Brian Wilshire. ...
2UE is a commercial radio station in Sydney, Australia. ...
Vega FM started in Sydney in the second half of 2005. ...
Music radio is a radio format where music is the primary source of broadcast content on both commercial and non-commercial stations. ...
The current Triple M logo Triple M is a network of radio stations owned by the Austereo Radio Network. ...
2Day FM is a commercial FM radio station broadcasting in Sydney, Australia on a frequency of 104. ...
The Nova 96. ...
Triple J (JJJ) is a nationally-networked, government-funded Australian radio station (a division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation), mainly aimed at youth (defined as those between 12 and 25). ...
2SER (Sydney Educational Radio) is a community radio station in Sydney, Australia, broadcasting on the frequency 107. ...
The FBi logo FBi Radio is a community radio station in Sydney, Australia. ...
Sport
 Games of the XXVII Olympiad Sydney is arguably the major rugby league centre of the world. It is the headquarters of Australian Rugby League and home to 9 of the 15 National Rugby League teams. This work is copyrighted. ...
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The logo of the National Rugby League. ...
The Sydney Swans are an Australian Football League (AFL) club based in Sydney. ...
This is a page about the national league in Australian Rules Football. ...
The Sydney Football Club, founded in 2004, is Sydneys entry in the revamped Australian national football (soccer) competition, the A-League. ...
Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...
Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Confederation of African Football (CAF) Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) The Current Laws of the Game (LOTG) The Rec. ...
National Basketball League Logo (2004 - Present) The National Basketball League is Australias top-level professional basketball competition. ...
The New South Wales Blues are an Australian first class cricket team based in Sydney, New South Wales. ...
First-class cricket matches are those of at least three days length in which both teams have two innings each, and which involve either international teams or the highest division of domestic competition. ...
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The current Super 14 logo The Super 14 is a rugby union championship competed for by teams from New Zealand, Australia and South Africa. ...
Rugby league is one of the two codes of rugby, the other being rugby union. ...
The Australian Rugby League (ARL) is the governing body for the sport of Rugby League in Australia. ...
The logo of the National Rugby League. ...
Sydney's most famous sports ground is the
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