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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. It includes the HMAS Kuttabul naval base, formerly known as HMAS Penguin.
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 .
Los Negros Island 1946–1950; 1950–1974 Base at Dreger closed in 1950, and the base name and its personnel and equipment transferred to the former HMAS Seeadler at Manus Island. [1] HMAS Torrens: Depot South Australia Port Adelaide 1940–1964: HMAS Waratah: Administrative centre United States of America Washington DC: 1966–1980
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 ...
Garden Island is on the southern shore of Port Jackson, the proper name for the harbour at Sydney, Australia.It is second promontory east of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.. The Royal Navy used the island from February 1788, just a month after Australia's colonisation by the First Fleet, as a garden for provisioning first HMS Sirius and later the fleet based in the port.
Garden Island Naval Chapel; Garden Island Naval Precinct; H. HMAS Kuttabul (naval base) R. Royal Australian Navy Heritage Centre
HMAS Kuttabul is a Royal Australian Navy (RAN) base located in Potts Point in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Kuttabul provides administrative, training, logistics and accommodation support to naval personnel assigned to the various facilities that form Fleet Base East, the main operational navy base on the east coast of Australia.
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