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Garden Island is an inner-city locality of Sydney, Australia, and the location of a major Royal Australian Navy (RAN) base. It is located to the north-east of the Sydney central business district and juts out into Port Jackson , immediately to the north of the suburb of Potts Point .
The Garden Island Naval Precinct is a heritage-listed naval base and defence precinct located at Cowper Wharf Roadway in the inner eastern Sydney neighbourhood of Garden Island, New South Wales, Australia. The precinct was built from 1856.
Sydney was considered the centre of naval activity in Australia from the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788. Over the course of the 19th century the Royal Navy developed facilities around Sydney Harbour, most notably at Garden Island. Those facilities passed to the newly formed Royal Australian Navy in 1911 and Sydney became home port to the ...
Now a campus of the Western Sydney University (2007) HMAS Platypus: Submarine base New South Wales Neutral Bay: 1967–1999: HMAS Rushcutter: Depot New South Wales Rushcutters Bay: 1901–1979: Commissioned as HMAS Rushcutter on 1 August 1940 HMAS Seeadler: Depot Papua New Guinea Los Negros Island: 1950 Name of base changed to HMAS Tarangau. [1 ...
The Garden Island Tunnel System, also known as Garden Island tunnels, Garden Island Tunnel Complex and Potts Point Tunnels, is a former tunnel warfare system in Garden Island, Sydney, Australia. Used in World War II by the Royal Australian Navy in 1941, the tunnels were dug from sandstone beneath Potts Point after the Japanese attacked Pearl ...
The Royal Australian Navy Heritage Centre was the maritime museum of the Royal Australian Navy.The centre opened on 4 October 2005 and was located within the then Public Access Area on the northern end of the Garden Island naval base in Sydney.
HMAS Penguin is a Royal Australian Navy (RAN) base located at Balmoral on the lower north shore of Sydney Harbour in the suburb of Mosman, New South Wales. Penguin is one of the RAN's primary training establishments, with a responsibility for providing trained specialists for all areas of the navy.
Dangar Island, a small forested island in the Hawkesbury River; Darling Island, a former island subsequently bridged by land, part of Pyrmont, in Sydney Harbour; Elizabeth Island, in the Clarence River near Grafton; Esk Island, in the north arm of the Clarence River; Fatima Island, a tidal island of the Cook's River