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The RAN Heritage Centre building, at the northern end of Garden Island The Professions of Navy. This was a large thematic display focusing on how the Navy's people have 'done the job' at sea over the years. Branches and categories past and present were used to explain how the naval profession has changed and developed. The Periscope
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 place has a strong or special association with a person, or group of persons, of importance of cultural or natural history of New South Wales's history. Garden Island Naval Precinct is of state significance for its associations with significant people and groups, notably with the Cadigal people for whom the island was part of their country ...
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 ...
New South Wales Quakers Hill: 1953–1955; 1956–1994 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 ...
Prior to the 1930s, the area on which Waterhen is constructed was a large hill overlooking Balls Head Bay.In the 1930s, the decision to construct a graving dock and landbridge connecting the naval base at Garden Island to the mainland at Potts Point led to the quarrying of this hill for sandstone, which altered the geography to a sheer cliff-face and near-water level plateau.
The place has a strong or special association with a person, or group of persons, of importance of cultural or natural history of New South Wales's history. HMAS Parramatta (I) is of State significance for its associations with the nationwide establishment of the Naval Historical Society of Australia, formed in 1970 as the Garden Island Naval ...
Balmain Colliery This is a list of industrial sites on or adjacent to the foreshore of Port Jackson, including Sydney Harbour, North Harbour, Middle Harbour, Lane Cove River, Parramatta River, and the islands within those waterways. Sydney now has relatively few foreshore industrial sites compared with earlier times, and this list is mainly of historical interest. This list may not include all ...