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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.
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.
Naval facility Purpose State/Territory Location Period Notes Fleet Base East: Fleet base, depot, dockyard New South Wales: Sydney: 1788–present: Includes HMAS Kuttabul, HMAS Waterhen, Garden Island dockyard & berthing facilities Fleet Base West (HMAS Stirling) Fleet base, depot Western Australia: Garden Island: 1978–present
Clark Island: Ralph Clark: Vegetable garden [16] c.1789 From 1870, a picnic site, except during World War II. Royal Navy: Storage of spare barrels for 14" naval guns. [16] c.1939—c.1945 Now a part of Sydney Harbour National Park. Garden Island: Garden Island Dockyard: The island has been a long-term naval base. [356]
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.