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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 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 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.
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.
New South Wales Balmoral: 1913–1942; 1943–present: Location of Balmoral Naval Hospital, hydrographic school, diving school and medical school HMAS Waterhen: Base New South Wales Waverton: 1962–present: Mine Warfare and Clearance Diving Headquarters, part of Fleet Base East HMAS Watson: Training facility New South Wales Watsons Bay: 1945 ...
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 ...