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Sydney's Bushrangers

As Sydney started life as a dumping ground for the worst of England's criminal system during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, from its beginnings it was a society outside of the law. Bushranging in Australia began in and around Sydney, the earliest being convicts who had escaped from assigned service on government or private farms. Known as bolters, they were alone in rough country without possessions.
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Sydney's Grand Canal Scheme


Cooks River at Belfield

After the Great War, a scheme to create a network of canals for Sydney, utilising existing creeks and rivers, was launched. The plan was to link Parramatta to Botany Bay and create a waterway system on which goods would be carried from industrial centres around Sydney to the Port of Botany. Many existing waterways were modified, but interest in the scheme evaporated, and it was never completed.
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Glenbrook Railway Heritage Walk


Knapsack Gully Viaduct

You don't have to be a railway buff to enjoy this heritage walk near Lapstone, which is the first town at the eastern end of the Blue Mountains. There are numerous places of railway-related historical interest history mostly on the boundary between Glenbrook and Lapstone, and most are covered by this walk through pleasant bushland in the Blue Mountains foothills.
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Relics From The First Fleet

Modern Australia had its beginnings when the first fleet sailed into Sydney Harbour in January 1788. Few physical relics of that epic voyage remain, but the first fleeters left much more than a few rock carvings and a rusty anchor as evidence of the little village they built on the shores of Sydney Cove.
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The Winemarks of Sydney

McLaren Vale, Margaret River, Rutherglen, Great Western, Barossa, Claire and Hunter Valleys are all names which are synonymous with wine making in Australia yet it was in Sydney that the craft of vintneculture in Australia had its origins and is still practised today. It all began with the First Fleet of settlers who made a 4-week stopover at the Dutch settlement of Capetown at the Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) and purchased a number of varieties of vines which were planted along with fig, orange, pear and apple trees in the Government garden.
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Aboriginal rock art

It is believed that over 6,000 drawings, most of which are carved into sandstone rock faces, once existed throughout what is now the Sydney metropolitan area, though many have been destroyed, bulldozed or blasted out of existence to make way for farms, bridges and later, suburbs. Some have survived, however, and can be easily accessed. Our suburb by suburb guide shows where they are, what to look for and how to help protect these priceless examples of Australia's indigenous cultural heritage.
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The Day The Japanese Bombed Sydney

Warrant Flying Officer Nobuo Fujita and his Yokosuka E14Y "Glen" seaplane, used to plan the mission to bomb Sydney.

At midnight on 8th June 1942, Japanese submarine I-24 was travelling at periscope depth about 15km south west of the Macquarie Light near Sydney. It then surfaced and pointed its deck gun towards Sydney. Commander Hanabusa gave his target instructions to gunnery officer Yusaburo Morita to aim directly at the Sydney Harbour Bridge. He fired 10 shells within 4 minutes. Most of the shells came down in Rose Bay, Woollahra and Bellevue Hill, hitting a number of residences.
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The First Fleeter who claimed he sailed to Botany Bay with James Cook

One of the few non-convict First Fleeters known to have settled in the Sydney region about whom considerable information is available through family records is Peter Hibbs, an Abel Seaman of the First Fleet flagship HMS Sirius. Hibbs played a significant role in the discovery and exploration of the eastern seaboard of Australia but his story is all the more intriguing for the fact that his arrival with the First Fleet may well have been his second landing on the shores of New South Wales. He himself claimed, and there is some evidence, albeit circumstantial, to support the belief that he had visited Botany Bay in 1770 as a cabin boy aboard James Cook's Endeavour. If that is so, he would be the only member of Cook's expedition to have returned to Australia with the First Fleet.
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Sydney's Forgotten Tramways

Sydney had one of the largest tramway networks in Australia. The operation of trams on the streets of Sydney lasted 81 continuous years, with an initial five years of horse tramway between 1861 and 1866. From 1871, trams rapidly developed as the major form of transport around the city, and were integral to the rapid settlement and development of Sydney.
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