Woolloomooloo Bay and Finger Wharf

Woolloomooloo is a harbourside, inner-city eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located about 1.5 km east of the Sydney central business district and is part of the local government area of the City of Sydney. The postcode is 2011. Image File history File links Woolloomooloo_Bay_Sydney. ... Image File history File links Woolloomooloo_Bay_Sydney. ... The Eastern Suburbs is the name of the region to the direct east and south-east of inner Sydney, Australia. ... Housing subdivision near Union, Kentucky, a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio. ... This article is about the metropolitan area in Australia. ... Emblems: Floral - Waratah (Telopea speciosissima); Bird - Kookaburra (Dacelo gigas); Animal - Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus); Fish - Blue Groper (Achoerodus viridis) Motto: Orta Recens Quam Pura Nites (Newly Risen, How Brightly You Shine) Slogan or Nickname: First State, Premier State Other Australian states and territories Capital Sydney Government Const. ... The Sydney central business district (CBD) is, commercially, the most important in Australia. ... 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. ... This article is about the local government area. ...

Woolloomooloo is a low-lying, former docklands area at the head of Woolloomooloo Bay, on Sydney Harbour. It has Potts Point to the east and Darlinghurst and The Domain to the west. The locality of East Sydney is near the south-west corner of the suburb and the locality of Kings Cross is near the south-east corner. Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge located on Port Jackson Port Jackson is the natural harbour of Sydney, Australia, also known as Sydney Harbour and is the largest natural harbour in the world. ... The view across Potts Point and Woolloomooloo to the Sydney CBD, from St Neot Avenue. ... Darlinghurst is an inner eastern suburb of Sydney, Australia. ... The Domain is a large open space in Sydney, Australia, immediately east of the central business district. ... East Sydney is a small inner-east suburb of Sydney, Australia. ... Kings Cross intersection in the 1950s Kings Cross is a former suburb that is now an inner-city locality of Sydney. ...

Description

The suburb has historically been a poorer working class district of Sydney. This has changed only recently with recent gentrification of the inner city areas of Sydney. The redevelopment of the waterfront, particularly the construction of the housing development on Finger Wharf by Pivotal Constructions, has caused major change. Areas of public housing (housing commission) still exist in the suburb. The term working class is used to denote a social class. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Woolloomooloo's commerce has historically been dominated by shipping at the Finger Wharf, and by the regular influx of sailors from the Garden Island base of the Royal Australian Navy. The wharf building is, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, the largest wooden structure in the world. 400 m long and 63 m wide, it was built in 1912 and stands on 3,600 piles. Located near the wharf is the popular fast-food stall and now tourist destination of Harry's Cafe de Wheels. Garden Island is a facility of the Royal Australian Navy in Port Jackson, Sydney. ... The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) is the naval branch of the Australian Defence Force. ... The Guinness Book of Records (or in recent editions Guinness World Records, and in previous US editions Guinness Book of World Records) is a book published annually, containing an internationally recognized collection of superlatives: both in terms of human achievement and the extrema of the natural world. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Harrys Cafe de Wheels is a pie cart located in Woolloomooloo, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia on Cowper Wharf Road, near the Finger Wharf and Fleet Base East of Garden Island Navy Base, opposite the Woolloomooloo Bay Hotel. ...

Origin of Name

The current spelling of Woolloomooloo is derived from the name of the first homestead in area, Wolloomooloo House, built by the first landowner John Palmer. There is debate as to how Palmer came up with the name with different Aboriginal words being suggested. Anthropologist J.D. McCarthy wrote in NSW Aboriginal Places Names, in 1946, that Woolloomooloo could be derived from either Wallamullah, meaning 'place of plenty' or Wallabahmullah, meaning a 'young black kangaroo'. Australian Aborigines are the main indigenous people of Australia. ...

In 1852, the traveller Col. G.C. Mundy wrote that the name came from Wala-mala, meaning an Aboriginal burial ground. It has also been suggested that the name means 'field of blood', due to the alleged Aboriginal tribal fights that took place in the area, or that it is from the pronunciation by Aboriginals of windmill, from the one that existed on Darlinghurst ridge until the 1850's.

Woolloomooloo Bay in 1855 (watercolour)

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History

After the First Fleet's arrival in Sydney, the area was initially called Garden Cove or Garden Island Cove after the nearby small wooded Garden Island, off the shore. The first land grant was given to John Palmer in 1793 to allow him to run cattle for the fledgling colony. The First Fleet is the name given to the 11 ships which sailed from Great Britain in May 1787 to establish the first European colony in New South Wales. ... Garden Island is a facility of the Royal Australian Navy in Port Jackson, Sydney. ...

In the 1840s the farm land was subdivided into what is now Woolloomooloo, Darlinghurst and parts of Surry Hills. Expensive houses were built in Elizabeth Bay and a road was needed from Sydney. It was for this reason that William Street was built, dividing the land for the first time. Darlinghurst is an inner eastern suburb of Sydney, Australia. ... The clock tower of Central railway station on the western edge of Surry Hills Surry Hills is an inner-city suburb of Sydney, Australia. ... Elizabeth Bay is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. ... William Street from the air in the 1950s William Street is a major thoroughfare in Sydney, Australia. ...

The well-known film actor Russell Crowe lives in a $14 million penthouse (the most expensive private home in Australia) at Finger Wharf in Woolloomooloo, which as a result has become famous in Australia and abroad and as well as one of the most expensive and sought after places in the country. ^[1] Russell Ira Crowe (born April 7, 1964) is an Oscar-winning New Zealand-Australian film actor. ...

Popular Culture

• The Bruces sketch by Monty Python is set in the fictitious university of Woolloomooloo, mainly due to its typical Australian name.
• The album Zoolook by Jean Michel Jarre has a track titled Woolloomooloo.

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References

• Requiem for Woolloomooloo, George Farwell, ISBN 0-340-15777-1

Notes

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External links

Coordinates: -33.87042° 151.22230° Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...

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